Jessica Colarco
Compassionate LCSW for stress and parenting
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- California, Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jessica
Jessica Colarco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable. Jessica offers a calm, straightforward presence for people feeling overwhelmed by emotions or big changes.
She concentrates on family and parenting concerns among other areas, supporting parents who are juggling responsibilities and relationship strains. Her work also covers trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, anger, intimacy-related issues, and LGBT concerns.
Background and approach
Jessica helps people address depression, career stress, and the practical parts of coping with midlife or major life pivots. Jessica blends talk-based methods with skill-building. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She draws on Attachment-Based Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to address connection and relationship patterns that affect day-to-day life. Sessions aim to teach coping skills, improve self-esteem, and reduce symptoms like panic or obsessive thoughts. Jessica also attends to issues such as codependency, divorce and separation, and first responder stress when they relate to a person’s current goals.
Her approach is person-centered and focused on small, achievable steps. She holds LCSW licensure in California and Nevada and offers work in English. Jessica accepts international clients and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions can help identify patterns and practice new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety or depression. It often includes concrete exercises and homework that adapt well to video or chat-based formats.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean combining approaches over time and adjusting techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and those in different places. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove the need for video, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into daily life.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Nevada
- Languages
- English
Next step
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