About Gessica
Gessica Yearwood is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who combines a warm, respectful approach with practical tools. She focuses on helping people build motivation, strengthen self-esteem, and improve concentration and memory when ADHD gets in the way. Gessica also supports those coping with depression, anxiety, strained relationships, parenting stress, grief, and sleep difficulties.
She uses a mix of conversations and structured techniques to fit each person’s needs. Sessions are shaped around what matters most to the client, whether that is managing anger, reducing social anxiety, or working on forgiveness and self-love.
Background and approach
Gessica adapts her style so people can try different ways of thinking and acting and see what helps them feel steadier. Over six years she has worked with adults on common life challenges like stress, relationship worries, and motivation. She leans on approaches such as client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, and solution-focused strategies to make sessions goal-oriented and concrete.
That means identifying small, manageable steps and practicing them between meetings. Her tone is supportive and straightforward. Gessica aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about what’s hard and experiment with changes without judgment.
She offers sessions in English and works with the practical realities people face when juggling daily life. The focus is on helping people move toward clearer thinking and healthier habits. With guidance on skills and simple strategies, many find they gain more confidence, better sleep, and improved focus over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and respected; online sessions let the therapist follow the client’s lead while offering empathy and understanding. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with concrete behavioral experiments and coping skills that can be practiced between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal functioning in short, teachable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That often means trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most, with both therapist and client making decisions together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill coaching, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging are helpful for brief updates, practicing skills in real time, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make scheduling easier and let people get care from their daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English