Jessica Gerson
Compassionate, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jessica
Jessica Gerson is a licensed social worker who supports parents and families facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and relationship strain. She brings 12 years of clinical experience and direct understanding of mood and anxiety issues to sessions.
Jessica works with people on practical problems like sleep, anger, and coping with life changes, along with topics such as ADHD, grief, intimacy, and identity concerns. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping families find clearer ways forward.
Background and approach
She draws on several evidence-informed methods and adapts them to each family's needs. Sessions focus on building skills you can use at home, improving communication, and managing strong emotions when they come up. Jessica emphasizes a collaborative relationship - she listens first, then offers tools that make sense for your situation.
She is licensed in Massachusetts as LICSW and also holds LCSW credentials. Jessica combines practical strategies from cognitive behavioral approaches with acceptance-based ideas and psychodynamic perspectives when useful. She also uses client-centered and solution-focused techniques to keep work goal-oriented and relevant to daily life.
In working with families she often addresses patterns that come from family of origin, attachment issues, and communication problems. She is familiar with a wide range of concerns including fertility, body image, chronic illness, BDSM and alternative sexual cultures, and gender dysphoria, and brings a nonjudgmental stance to sensitive topics. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through online formats.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic methods and how they work online
Jessica often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and focuses on taking actions that match personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, improve sleep, and reduce low mood.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Jessica will learn about your situation, goals, and preferences, and then suggest methods tailored to those needs. Together you will track what helps and adjust the plan if something isn’t working well.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let families fit sessions around school, work, and caregiving schedules. They also make it easier to revisit skills between sessions using messages or chat when brief check-ins are helpful.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
Next step
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