About Jessica
Jessica Bolin Edwards is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a calm, interactive style. Jessica focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and trauma-related concerns.
She uses a somatic-informed approach that pays attention to how the body holds stress and trauma. That perspective pairs with client-centered listening and practical cognitive-behavioral tools to make therapy feel grounded and actionable.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Jessica has worked in residential programs, mobile crisis teams, outpatient clinics, and in-home settings. That variety shaped her skills with complex trauma, adoption and foster care issues, attachment challenges, and grief.
She is experienced supporting people dealing with addictions, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. In sessions she blends mindfulness, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and EMDR practices as needed. The focus is on clear goals, steady steps, and tools to handle difficult feelings.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with respect and sensitivity. Therapy with Jessica generally involves talking through patterns, building coping skills, and noticing physical responses to stress. She aims to empower clients to make meaningful changes in daily life.
If someone wants steady, practical support for healing and growth, she offers that partnership.
How somatic and practical approaches work online
Somatic-informed work focuses on how stress and trauma show up in the body. Online sessions can include guidance to notice breathing, posture, and physical tension, and then use grounding and movement strategies to reduce discomfort. This can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and overwhelm.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. The therapist creates space for a person to tell their story and sets goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) adds concrete steps to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, and it works well for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video and phone allow real-time conversation, while chat and text provide a flexible way to check in between sessions. These options increase access and let people choose the mode that feels most practical for them.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English