Jessica Steinmetz, LMHC, LPC

Jessica Steinmetz is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, and low self-esteem. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Jessica emphasizes collaboration and respects each person's experience as the starting point for change.

Over ten years of experience inform her approach to common struggles like depression, motivation problems, and relationship difficulties. She has worked extensively with people facing substance, alcohol, and gambling addictions and helps those trying to stop or cut back on smoking or vaping.

Jessica uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build better habits. She also draws on motivational interviewing to support people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change. In sessions she mixes direct skill teaching with empathetic listening.

People can expect clear goals and short-term strategies alongside space to talk through feelings. She pays attention to communication problems, codependency, impulsivity, isolation, and money-related stress when these come up.

Jessica is licensed in New York as an LMHC and in New Jersey as a Licensed Professional Counselor. She offers sessions in English and works with people across a range of life changes who want practical tools and steady support.

How Jessica’s Approaches Work Online

Jessica often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical experiments to change behavior. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems where thinking patterns drive strong feelings.

She also follows a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening and understanding each person’s priorities. This helps create space to make choices that feel right for the individual. Motivational interviewing is used when someone feels unsure about change; it focuses on building readiness and finding personal reasons to move forward.

Choosing the right approach is a joint process. She talks with each person about goals and preferences, then adapts methods as work progresses. If an approach isn’t working, she helps adjust the plan so therapy stays useful and relevant.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good for full sessions and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is low, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or shorter conversations. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.