About Jessica
Jessica Owen helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges with self-esteem and intimacy. She also supports clients facing parenting strain, eating concerns, anger, bipolar mood challenges, and life transitions such as divorce or midlife change.
Background and approach
Jessica is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - licensed in Tennessee and North Carolina with eight years of professional experience. Jessica keeps sessions straightforward and down-to-earth.
She works to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through what feels stuck. Conversations focus on what's happening now and practical steps to make small, steady changes.
She aims for clear goals you both agree on and revisits them as needed. Her approach uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs.
That can include helping someone manage anxiety symptoms, process trauma, rebuild confidence, or cope with major life shifts. She pays attention to how relationships and family of origin issues shape current struggles while focusing on what the individual wants to change.
Jessica values collaboration. She guides people through decisions and problem solving rather than telling them what to do.
Sessions are paced to match each person’s comfort and readiness to try new strategies. Clients meet with Jessica using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She offers practical tools for coping, skills to handle strong emotions, and steady support during difficult transitions.
Approaches people use online for stress and trauma
Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and strong emotions through breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping strategies to reduce day-to-day distress. Another approach focuses on processing traumatic experiences and their impact, helping people make sense of what happened and reduce the emotional hold those memories have on daily life. A third strand of work targets relationship patterns and family of origin influences to help someone understand recurring dynamics and choose different responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is seen. She frames therapy as a joint effort where the client’s needs and preferences guide what techniques are tried.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief, flexible exchanges during busy days. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or other daily demands while still working through stress, trauma, and relationship concerns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, North Carolina
- Languages
- English