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Online therapist

Jessyca Nellé

Calm guidance for family and parenting concerns

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Credentials
LCMHC
Experience
10 years
Licensed in
Vermont
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Jessyca

Jessyca Nellé is a licensed mental health counselor in Vermont with ten years of clinical experience. She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, family struggles, grief, or parenting concerns. Jessyca speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person who reaches out.

Her sessions focus on practical skills and real-life problem solving. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thinking.

Background and approach

She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify values and take small, meaningful steps forward. Jessyca blends emotion-focused methods with skills from dialectical behavior therapy when people need better ways to manage strong feelings. She has additional experience with adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.

Her work also addresses relationship and intimacy matters, parenting challenges, ADHD, and identity-related concerns within the LGBT community. In a typical meeting she helps identify manageable goals, practices new skills, and checks in about what’s working. Conversations are direct but compassionate, aimed at creating steady change rather than quick fixes.

She also supports people coping with grief, shame, eating or sleeping problems, and anger. Sessions are offered in English and organized around a client’s life and schedule. The first steps involve a brief matching intake and then scheduling a time to begin talking and planning next steps.

Evidence-informed approaches for online family and parenting support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people name what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It’s useful for stress, anxiety, and improving how you respond to difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical strategies to spot thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, and then replace them with more helpful patterns for mood, sleep, or anger. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, centers on understanding and reshaping emotional responses in relationships so people can feel safer and more connected.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person to learn their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy family life, continue work while traveling, or check in between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide skill practice, walk through exercises, and offer feedback in ways that match a person’s schedule and pace.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns can I bring to therapy?
You can address stress, anxiety, family and parenting issues, trauma and abuse, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, depression, self-esteem, eating or sleeping problems, anger, and coaching needs.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
The approach is straightforward and compassionate. Sessions focus on skill building, identifying values, and handling strong emotions with practical techniques.
What is Jessyca's background and experience?
She has ten years of experience as a licensed counselor working with a range of emotional and family-related concerns and mood difficulties.
What credential and location information is listed?
Jessyca holds the credential LCMHC and is licensed in Vermont as VT LCMHC 068.0135277.
In which languages can I speak with the therapist?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
10 years
Licensed
Vermont
Languages
English

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