Jessica Katz, LMHC, LPC - Therapist in Utah

EMDR
CBT
Attachment work

About Jessica

Jessica Katz is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 21 years of experience, currently practicing from Utah. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, depression, addictions, anger, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Jessica also supports those dealing with grief, career strain, ADHD, and identity topics related to LGBT issues.

Her approach is practical and relational. She uses EMDR, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, existential conversations, and a client-centered stance. Sessions focus on learning skills, understanding patterns, and practicing changes between meetings. She describes therapy as a give-and-take process where sometimes the client leads and other times she does.

Jessica draws on 21 years of varied work across states including New York and Florida before moving to Utah. That background informs how she understands blended family matters, parenting stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and reunification challenges. She has also worked with eating and food-related issues, control and codependency patterns, dissociation, and abandonment worries.

In sessions she helps people build coping skills, reduce reactivity, and improve communication. Practical tools and structured exercises are combined with conversations about meaning and values. Over time clients practice new ways of responding so they can handle frustrating situations more calmly.

Jessica asks people to be patient with the process and to expect some discomfort as part of change. She frames therapy as a gradual learning of new skills that lets clients take more of the lead in their lives later on.

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Jessica uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR alongside attachment-based ideas when working with anger, trauma, or stress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and practicing new behaviors to change reactions. EMDR uses guided processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related reactions. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people shift how they respond when they feel triggered.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Jessica will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs and goals. She often blends techniques so sessions address immediate coping skills and longer-term pattern change together.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow for shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce the need to travel. People often find that doing homework between sessions and practicing skills in daily life is straightforward to coordinate with remote appointments.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, Anxiety Trauma and abuseParenting issuesDepression Coping with life changes

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoachingCompassion fatigue ADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stress CodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problems Control issuesDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily problemsFatherhood issues Forgiveness Guilt and shameHoardingImpulsivity Infidelity Isolation / loneliness JealousyLife purposeMen's issues Midlife crisis Money and financial issues Mood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issues Young adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Existential TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Motivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

21+ years

Listed in

Utah, Florida, Minnesota, Alabama, New York

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting, depression, addictions, anger, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and related concerns such as grief and career strain.

What is her general therapeutic style?

She uses a mix of approaches including EMDR, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, existential discussion, and client-centered work to teach skills and change patterns.

How much experience does she have?

She has 21 years of experience as a mental health counselor, with past work in New York and Florida and current practice in Utah.

What are her credentials and where is she located?

She holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices from Utah, with prior professional work in New York and Florida.

Which languages are supported?

Sessions are offered in English.

Does she work with international clients?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How does cost and billing work?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin a first session?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.