- CBT focus
- Mindfulness tools
- Anger management
About Jessica
Jessica McDaniel is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, with 17 years of experience. She works with adults who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship strains, grief, trauma and other life changes. She uses straightforward methods and regular check-ins to help people make steady progress toward clearer goals.
Jessica focuses on practical skills you can use day to day. She teaches relaxation and mindfulness exercises and uses cognitive behavioral techniques to look at how thoughts affect feelings. Sessions include learning specific coping tools for worry, sleeplessness, parenting challenges, and career stress.
She frames change as a series of concrete choices and actions. That means setting small goals, tracking what helps, and adjusting plans when needed. Jessica also draws on acceptance-based ideas to help people live with difficult emotions instead of getting stuck in them.
Her work is gradual and task-oriented. Clients practice new responses between sessions and review what worked at the next meeting. This approach is often used for problems such as anger that show up across relationships and at work.
People who come to Jessica can expect clear explanations of methods and regular progress checks. She offers sessions in English and works from her Illinois licensure. To start, a short questionnaire and a first appointment are used to match goals and plan next steps.
How her approaches work for remote sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people recognize painful thoughts and still take action that matters to them. It is useful when anger or avoidance gets in the way of daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors feed feelings and teaches concrete skills to change that cycle. It is practical for stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and anger that comes from unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and simple breathing or body awareness practices to lower reactivity and increase calm in tense moments.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Jessica will review your goals, try out techniques, and adjust the mix of ACT, CBT, or mindfulness based on what helps you most. She checks progress regularly and changes plans if an approach is not working for you.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, and use guided exercises during or between meetings. Therapists can also assign brief practices to try between sessions and review what changed at the next appointment.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
17+ years
Listed in
Missouri, Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, trauma, relationship and parenting challenges, sleep and eating issues, career change, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapy style like?
She uses a practical, skills-based style with regular check-ins. Sessions focus on learning techniques such as relaxation, mindfulness, and cognitive tools to change unhelpful thinking.
How much experience does she have?
She has 17 years of experience practicing psychotherapy in a range of clinical settings.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She holds LPC and LCPC credentials: MO LPC and IL LCPC, and she is based in Illinois.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session to get started.