Jessica ClearyLPC

Jessica Cleary is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Mississippi who uses a person-centered approach to guide people through life changes. She keeps sessions warm and interactive, and she aims to match structure to each person's needs. Jessica addresses concerns clearly and directly so people can feel more confident about next steps.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when helpful, tailoring methods to the person in front of her. Much of her career has been in community mental health, and she has nearly a decade of clinical experience working across many concerns.

Jessica has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and panic. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. She has experience helping new parents with postpartum depression and anxiety, and she offers support around fertility challenges and intimacy-related concerns.

Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental. Jessica treats people with respect and sensitivity and asks them to view therapy as a team effort. She helps clients set practical goals, learn coping skills, and practice changes between sessions.

To begin, she encourages people to consider what they want to change and what feels most urgent. Jessica aims to provide straightforward guidance that fits into everyday life while helping people move toward better balance and clearer priorities.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people steer the conversation. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist follow the client's lead and adjust support as concerns come up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is practical and skills-based, working on thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, depression, or panic. In remote sessions CBT often includes brief skill practice, homework, and clear examples to use between meetings. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses traumatic memories by pairing focused attention with guided processing; when used online it is adapted to fit a collaborative rhythm that helps people revisit and reprocess difficult experiences.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, past experiences, and preferences to decide which methods to try. That decision is made together, and the plan can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm the current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to continue working with a licensed professional across state lines or from another country when that is supported. If travel, work hours, or childcare are barriers, ask about flexible scheduling and what session styles the therapist offers.