Jessica Otton, LCSW

Jessica Otton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices in Florida. She has nine years of clinical experience and brings a calm, practical style to sessions. Jessica earned her Bachelor and Master of Social Work from Florida Gulf Coast University and has a long background in medical social work and hospice care.

Her work history includes hospice settings in inpatient, home, and nursing home environments. She has also provided services in substance abuse rehabilitation and private practice. That experience means she is familiar with grief, end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress alongside addiction and medical illness issues.

Jessica uses a strengths-based approach and leans on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused techniques during sessions. She aims to build a clear, team-oriented relationship where clients set the goals and the work is practical and goal-directed. Mindfulness, attachment-based, and client-centered ideas also inform her style.

Typical concerns she helps with include anxiety, depression, stress, grief, family conflict, parenting strain, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, addictions, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing aging or chronic illness and offers counseling related to hospice and end-of-life decisions.

Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Jessica presents therapy in straightforward terms and focuses on short-term strategies and steady progress toward the goals you name.

Approach and online care that fits your life

Jessica often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that alter mood and stress. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing day-to-day stressors. She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy ideas to look at how early or adult relationships shape expectations and responses in close relationships, which can help with relationship conflict and self-esteem issues.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Jessica treats approach selection as collaborative - she listens to your goals and preferences, explains options in plain language, and adjusts techniques as progress is made. The plan is shaped by what you want to change and how you prefer to work.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video is good for more in-depth sessions, phone can be handy when bandwidth is limited, chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to maintain alongside family, work, and caregiving responsibilities.