About Jessica
Jessica Lemer is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Minnesota. She brings 14 years of professional experience to sessions and centers her work on fairness and client-centered care.
Background and approach
Jessica aims to make beginning therapy feel straightforward and manageable for people who are unsure where to start. She helps people handle stress and anxiety, manage depression, and talk through relationship concerns.
She also supports those coping with family conflict, trauma and abuse, and a range of related struggles. Jessica listens for the practical patterns that keep problems repeating and works with clients to try new responses.
Her approach is collaborative and direct. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual, using clear strategies and steady support.
Clients can expect a warm space to say what feels hard and to test small changes between sessions. Jessica has experience addressing additional issues such as attachment and abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family challenges, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, and dissociation.
She is familiar with working alongside concerns that co-occur, like codependency or communication breakdowns. People meet with Jessica for practical help and for a chance to make sense of difficult feelings.
She offers guidance rooted in respect and equality, helping each person shape goals that fit their life.
How Jessica's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy puts the person's goals and preferences first. The therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead to build understanding and trust, which helps people feel heard and decide what to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by offering clear steps to try between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Jessica will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and what feels most useful. Together they shape a plan that may combine approaches and adjust over time as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging lets people check in or do shorter exchanges between longer appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English