Jessica Benash, LCSW

Jessica Benash is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience. She provides a warm, interactive style that aims to meet people where they are. Jessica focuses on practical steps clients can use right away to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She also supports people coping with life changes and parenting challenges, and those living with chronic pain, illness, or disability.

Her background includes work in residential treatment, day treatment, and outpatient therapy. She also teaches as an adjunct professor in a social work department. Over nearly two decades she has worked with people facing depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief including losses to suicide, and trauma or emotional abuse.

Jessica uses approaches that center the client's goals. She combines client-centered and solution-focused work with cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts. Mindfulness tools are offered when they fit, and trauma-focused methods are used with attention to safety and pacing.

Sessions emphasize finding strengths in everyday life and building small, achievable steps toward goals. Jessica values respect, sensitivity, and compassion in the therapy relationship. She encourages clients who feel stuck to try different strategies until they find what helps.

People who choose her often want straightforward, skills-based support alongside empathetic listening. She aims to help clients build routines and coping habits that make day-to-day life feel more manageable.

How Jessica’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and following the client's lead. It helps when someone needs space to tell their story and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans together based on what feels most helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay practical and relevant.

Session formats and options are not listed here, so please confirm current session choices before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce time spent traveling. It can also let people use mindfulness practice and skill-building exercises from their everyday environment while discussing progress with a licensed professional.