Jessica McConnell
Compassionate, practical support for parents
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jessica
Jessica McConnell is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Pennsylvania. She focuses on common parenting and family concerns like stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing trauma and abuse, LGBT-related issues, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, and struggles with self-esteem, anger, eating, and motivation.
Jessica keeps sessions straightforward and direct. She builds space where people can say what they’re thinking and feeling without judgment.
Background and approach
The first steps often focus on what feels most urgent and practical changes that can help at home. Her approach blends three well-known methods. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s perspective and aims to make them feel heard.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to shift patterns that cause distress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps address how emotions shape reactions and relationships. Jessica draws on seven years of clinical work as a licensed professional counselor - LPC - in Pennsylvania.
She uses clear language and concrete strategies rather than technical terms. For many parents, that means learning skills to manage stress, set boundaries, and rebuild trust in daily life. She invites straightforward conversation about goals and next steps.
If someone prefers short-term tools or a longer process, she works to match the plan to what the family or individual actually needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist provides a supportive presence and follows the client’s pace to build trust and clarity about what matters most. This approach can be especially helpful when parents need a nonjudgmental space to talk through everyday stresses.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for addressing anxiety, low mood, and stress that interfere with daily parenting tasks.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy - EFT - helps people understand and reshape how emotions affect their reactions and relationships. It can help parents respond differently in tense moments and work toward stronger emotional connections at home.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is a joint process. The therapist will listen to goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process aims to find what fits the client’s needs and family routines.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction while staying at home, phone sessions work when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging give options for brief check-ins or when schedules are tight. These formats make it easier to fit support into busy family life and to continue work between sessions.
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
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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