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Jessica Favata is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with preteens, teens, young adults, and adults navigating anxiety, stress, life transitions, self-esteem challenges, relationship concerns, and burnout. She provides a supportive and compassionate space where clients can feel heard, understood, and empowered to grow. Jessica especially enjoys helping adolescents and young adults build confidence, improve communication skills, manage overwhelming emotions, and develop healthier coping strategies during important stages of life.
With over 20 years of experience working with children, teens, and families in education, along with experience as both a school counselor and therapist, Jessica brings a warm, relatable, and practical approach to counseling. Her background allows her to understand the unique pressures students, parents, and young adults face academically, socially, and emotionally. She is passionate about helping clients feel less alone while learning how to navigate challenges in a healthier and more balanced way.
Jessica’s counseling style is collaborative, nonjudgmental, and strength-based. She integrates evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and mindfulness techniques, to help clients better understand their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. She believes therapy should feel like a safe and supportive partnership where clients can explore their experiences, gain insight, and create meaningful change at their own pace.
Jessica offers virtual counseling sessions and strives to create a welcoming environment where clients feel comfortable showing up as their authentic selves. Her goal is to help clients develop resilience, healthier boundaries, emotional awareness, and confidence so they can move forward feeling more grounded, empowered, and hopeful.
Years of Experience: 3 years
Adolescent mental health - Working with adolescents, teenagers, and parents on social, academic, and/or emotional challenges throughout teenage years; addressing anxiety, family conflicts, peer relationships, school stress, transition to college, social media pressures, self-esteem, hopelessness about the future, emotional disregulation
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Communication issues - Developing effective interpersonal skills in relationships with partners, families, and co-workers; using healthy methods of communication to convey needs and respond to others
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Loss, grief, and bereavement - Emotionally preparing for the anticipated passing of a loved one; managing feelings and reactions to a death or loss of significance; support during the process of healing and acceptance
Coping skills - Learn practical tools and strategies to manage stress, emotions, and difficult situations in healthier ways.
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