Jessica Braddock, LCSW

Jessica Braddock is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Maine with nine years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the fallout of trauma. Jessica aims to offer clear tools and steady support while people work through difficult changes in their lives.

She tends to use practical, skills-based approaches in sessions. Those methods include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside narrative and Jungian ideas when helpful. Sessions usually mix short-term coping skills with attention to deeper patterns that influence behavior.

Jessica helps with a wide range of concerns such as relationship struggles, parenting stress, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and issues linked to identity and sexuality. She also focuses on attachment challenges, communication problems, and the emotional fallout from divorce or separation. People bring both immediate problems and longer-term questions about life purpose and self-love.

In meetings she listens for strengths clients already have, then builds on those strengths with practical strategies. Examples include breaking down unhelpful thought patterns, practicing emotion regulation skills, and setting small behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping. Her style is direct but warm, aiming to make therapy understandable and useful.

Jessica sees therapy as a partnership. She works with each person to set goals, try approaches that fit their life, and adjust as progress is made. The focus is on useful change you can notice between sessions.

How these approaches work online

CBT focuses on recognizing and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. Online CBT sessions often use structured exercises and homework to practice new skills between meetings, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress management.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports people to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to values-based actions. In remote sessions ACT can combine mindfulness exercises with goal setting to help with life changes and emotional avoidance.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. Those DBT skills translate well to an online setting through role-plays, skill worksheets, and short coaching-style check-ins via messaging.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Jessica will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then tailor techniques over time. She checks in regularly to see what’s working and adapts plans when needed.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat is useful for brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions.