About Jessica
Jessica Katz is a licensed mental health counselor who aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting struggles, and changes in life. She writes simply and directly, offering a steady, compassionate presence for people who feel overwhelmed or stuck. Jessica explains therapy in plain terms and focuses on helping clients build coping skills they can use day to day.
She draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on understanding attachment patterns, identifying thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress, and processing painful memories. EMDR may be used when trauma memories are a core concern, while cognitive techniques are used to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Jessica has more than 21 years of experience working in mental health and holds the LMHC credential along with an LPC.
She practices from Utah and conducts sessions in English. Her experience includes addressing grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, addiction, ADHD, eating and body image struggles, and caregiver stress. Her style is straightforward and collaborative.
She describes the therapeutic relationship as a gradual dance where control shifts between client and therapist as skills develop. Jessica emphasizes patience, self-kindness, and steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who are looking for practical tools, compassionate listening, and help making sense of difficult memories or life transitions may find her approach useful.
She frames therapy as a team effort focused on learning skills and regaining confidence.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online work with this approach looks at connection, trust, and how people relate to others, and it can help with attachment issues, abandonment, and blended family stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. In remote sessions CBT often uses practical exercises, homework, and clear steps to reduce anxiety or depression. EMDR addresses traumatic memories by guiding clients through a structured process to lessen distress; in online sessions the therapist adapts the steps to work through painful memories at a pace the client can manage.Selecting the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made or new needs appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper discussion, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets clients share between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days while still accessing the same therapeutic tools and skill practice as in-person work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Florida, Minnesota, Alabama, New York
- Languages
- English