Jessica Drennen (She/Her), LCSW

Jessica Drennen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and issues around self-esteem and identity. She supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, grief, career stress, ADHD, and complicated changes in life. She welcomes conversations that may feel hard to begin and centers the client's concerns in each session.

Her approach blends practical strategies with a warm, straightforward style. Jessica uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns. She also draws on client-centered skills to listen closely and meet people where they are. Mindfulness and DBT tools are offered to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.

Jessica treats substance use and addiction issues with motivational interviewing and other collaborative methods to help people consider change and set achievable goals. She pays attention to body image, eating-related struggles, and caregiver stress with concrete coping steps and careful pacing.

Conversations in sessions are direct but respectful. Jessica says hard topics can be named and worked through without avoidance. She aims to help people develop skills they can use between appointments and to tailor strategies to each person's daily routines.

Based in North Carolina, Jessica holds the LCSW credential and brings a practical, empathetic approach to therapy. She works with English-speaking clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session options.

Practical approaches for online care

Jessica uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress by focusing on specific, do-able actions. Client-Centered Therapy is also part of her approach, which means sessions start from the person's own concerns and priorities and the therapist follows the client's lead to build understanding and plans together.

She may integrate Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance when strong emotions or relationship patterns are recurring problems. These tools are taught in simple steps so people can practice them during daily life and notice gradual changes.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. That process is gradual and adjusted over time based on what helps.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing support possible between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and try different formats to see what works best.