Jessica Lemer
Experienced family-focused therapist in Minnesota
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jessica
Jessica Lemer is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Minnesota. She brings 14 years of professional experience to work with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, family conflicts, and trauma. Jessica values social justice and equality and aims to make therapy approachable for parents and caregivers feeling overwhelmed.
Her style is down-to-earth and client-centered. She creates a calm space where people can speak openly about hard feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what is most pressing in everyday life and finding steps that feel doable. Jessica uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also draws on emotionally-focused therapy to look at how interactions shape connection and responses in relationships.
Mindfulness skills are offered to reduce reactivity and improve present-moment coping. Her experience includes work with adoption and foster care and attachment concerns, as well as challenges linked to chronic illness, caregiver stress, and body image. She also supports people coping with dissociation, abandonment wounds, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Therapy conversations are collaborative. Jessica helps people set realistic goals and tries to match techniques to each family's needs. For parents reading this, she seeks to make the first steps clear and manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. It helps people who need a steady, compassionate space to sort feelings and decide on next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete coping strategies and problem-solving skills.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions and interactions affect relationships. It can be useful when patterns of disconnection or repeated conflicts are causing distress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences and try different techniques to see what fits best. Sessions evolve as goals become clearer and progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and caregivers. Jessica provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can connect in the way that works best for them. This range of formats makes it easier to fit therapy into a hectic schedule and keeps continuity when in-person visits are difficult.
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.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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