- Life purpose questions
- Addiction and trauma
- CBT and DBT approaches
About Jessica
Jessica Drennen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina with 14 years of experience. She works with adults who feel stuck after changes in work, relationships, or health, and with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and questions about identity and purpose.
Her sessions focus on direct conversation about what matters most. She raises hard topics rather than avoiding them, including issues around race, gender, LGBTQ concerns, substance use, and trauma. Jessica helps people talk through relationship strains, parenting stress, career uncertainty, and questions about life purpose.
In practice she draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That means sessions can include goal setting, checking thoughts and patterns, learning grounding and emotion skills, and finding small steps toward change. She combines practical tools with open discussion about values and choices.
People can expect straightforward feedback and collaborative planning. Sessions often focus on current problems, coping skills, and decisions about next steps rather than long lists of diagnoses. Jessica supports people working through addictions, body image and eating issues, codependency, attachment and abandonment concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She offers therapy in English and practices from North Carolina. To begin clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session. Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals. In online sessions this looks like open conversation about what matters, with the therapist reflecting and helping clarify priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, examines unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change them, which can be practiced between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, often using short exercises and skill coaching during sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that match. That may mean focusing first on coping skills, then on thought patterns, or blending approaches as progress is made. The client and therapist make choices in collaboration rather than following a fixed path.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, require less travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use video or audio depending on bandwidth and comfort, and support practicing skills in everyday settings without needing to be in the therapist's office.
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Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
14+ years
Listed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and career questions, ADHD, body image and many life changes.
How does she approach feeling stuck or directionless?
She uses conversational, goal-focused work with tools from client-centered therapy, CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing to identify patterns and small next steps.
What is her background and experience?
She has 14 years of professional experience and practices as an LCSW in North Carolina.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is an LCSW licensed in North Carolina and provides services from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.