Jessica Mangan
Calm, practical support for life and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jessica
Jessica Mangan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan. She greets people with warmth and straightforward language, acknowledging how hard it can feel to reach out. Jess has guided people through stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, grief, parenting concerns, and other life changes for many years.
Her goal is practical: to help clients find tools that work for them now. She earned a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Western Michigan University in 2005 and brings two decades of clinical experience.
Background and approach
That work has included crisis units, community mental health centers, and correctional settings. She has also held leadership and staff training roles alongside direct clinical practice. Her style is open and honest.
Sessions focus on building a trusting relationship first, then on clear steps toward change. Clients learn insight plus practical skills they can use between meetings. Jessica uses approaches that include cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness techniques, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work.
She blends these methods to match each person’s needs rather than sticking to one rigid plan. Many who work with her are looking for relief from anxiety, help coping with trauma or loss, support around addictive behaviors, or clearer goals for life and career. She also addresses issues like intimacy, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and guilt or shame.
Jessica aims to make therapy doable and relevant. Conversations are practical, with steps and tools to try between sessions so change can start right away.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Jessica commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based techniques in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying small, concrete changes to improve mood and functioning. Mindfulness therapy helps people notice their present-moment experience, reduce reactivity, and build calmer responses to stress.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and motivation-focused strategies when people are ready to change difficult patterns. DBT skills offer practical steps for tolerance and managing intense feelings, while motivational interviewing helps clarify what matters and supports committed action.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend methods that fit. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels manageable and useful.
Online therapy via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and for people who prefer remote care. These options make it easier to try different tools, check in between sessions, and maintain momentum while balancing family, work, and other responsibilities.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Jessica
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- Stop at any point