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Online therapist

Gessica Yearwood

Calm, practical support for everyday family challenges

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Credentials
LMHC
Experience
6 years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Gessica

Gessica Yearwood is a licensed mental health counselor who uses a warm, practical style to help people make concrete changes. She focuses on motivation, self esteem, attention and focus challenges, anxiety, depression, and everyday stress. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping parents and individuals find clearer ways to cope and move forward.

She combines talk-based work with tools you can use between sessions. Conversations are shaped to fit each person’s needs, and plans are adjusted as progress is made.

Background and approach

Gessica emphasizes building confidence, improving concentration, and reducing overwhelming thoughts so daily life feels more manageable. With six years of experience, she draws from several evidence-based methods. These include cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, dialectical skills for emotion regulation, and client-centered listening to keep sessions focused on your goals.

Motivational interview approaches help people find the drive to try new strategies. Parents often look to her for practical parenting strategies and help with family stress. She also supports people facing grief, sleep trouble, anger management, phobias, social anxiety, and young adult transitions.

Gessica explains steps plainly and offers tools to practice between meetings. Sessions are offered in English and arranged to match individual schedules. The work is collaborative - she helps you set clear goals, track progress, and adjust the plan when needed.

How therapeutic methods translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person without judgment and following their lead to set goals; it helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to build self-confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage low mood.

Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist listens to your concerns, discusses options, and recommends strategies that match your goals and preferences. If one method isn’t working, she adjusts the plan so the work stays useful and relevant.

Online sessions offer flexibility for busy families and individuals. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions remove the need for video. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, frequent check-ins and a way to practice new skills between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a child’s schedule, a workday, or unpredictable routines, and they support steady progress when in-person visits aren’t possible.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Gessica address?
She helps with self esteem, ADHD-related focus issues, stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, grief, sleep problems, parenting, anger, and depression, plus areas like phobias and young adult issues.
What is her general therapy style?
Gessica uses a practical, person-focused style that mixes listening with tools to try at home, drawing on client-centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused ideas.
How much experience does she have?
She has six years of professional experience working with the listed concerns and developing practical treatment plans.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Florida licensed mental health counselor, credential FL LMHC MH21020, and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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Experience
6 years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English

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