Jessica Bolin Edwards, LPC - Therapist in Tennessee

About Jessica

Jessica Bolin Edwards is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee. She brings eight years of counseling experience and a warm, interactive style to sessions. Jessica focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and relationship and family concerns.

She uses clear, respectful language and avoids stigmatizing labels so parents can feel understood and heard. Jessica has worked in residential settings, mobile crisis teams, outpatient clinics, and in-home care.

Background and approach

That variety means she has seen concerns at different levels of need and across life stages. She has particular experience with adoption and foster care issues and attachment-related challenges. Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma work and includes mindfulness and motivational interviewing when helpful. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps that fit each family’s situation. Jessica aims to collaborate with parents to create doable plans for coping and change.

She helps people identify small adjustments that reduce daily stress and improve relationships. The tone is supportive but action-oriented, so families leave sessions with concrete next steps. If a parent wants straightforward guidance on parenting, attachment, grief, or coping with life changes, Jessica offers steady support and structured strategies to move forward.

How evidence-based approaches work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects concerns back, and helps people identify their goals. This approach is useful when parents need nonjudgmental space to talk through problems.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses simple, practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and develop new coping habits. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and many parenting challenges.

EMDR is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories so they feel less overwhelming. It is often used when past events continue to affect daily life and relationships.

Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose approaches based on needs, goals, and comfort. Plans can combine listening-focused care, skill-building from CBT, or trauma work like EMDR as appropriate.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around busy family schedules, follow up between appointments, and keep progress moving even when in-person visits are difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and tools to work well across these formats.

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.

EMDR

A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Jessica address most often?

She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, family and relationship conflicts, trauma and abuse, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and related concerns such as grief and compassion fatigue.

What is her general therapy style?

Her style is warm and interactive, emphasizing collaboration. She listens closely, sets clear goals with clients, and uses practical steps to address problems.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has eight years of professional counseling experience across residential, mobile crisis, outpatient, and in-home settings.

What are her credentials and where is she located?

She is a licensed professional counselor, credential TN LPC 5274, practicing in Tennessee.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted.

What formats are available for sessions?

Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.

How do fees and the subscription work?

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

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Also works with

Addictions
ADHD
Adoption and foster care
Anger management
Attachment issues
Bipolar disorder
Career difficulties
Compassion fatigue
Coping with life changes
Depression
Family conflicts
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
LGBT
Relationship issues
Self esteem

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 8 years
Licensed: Tennessee
Languages: English

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