About Jessica
Jessica Griggs is a licensed clinical social worker in Tennessee with 10 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and to manage symptoms of depression. Jessica aims to meet people where they are and treat them with respect and sensitivity.
She uses a mix of approaches, including somatic methods, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral tools. Sessions emphasize clear, doable steps that fit a person’s life.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person’s concerns and goals. Jessica often helps people facing relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and feelings of emptiness. Other areas she addresses include attachment wounds, body image, caregiver stress, fertility concerns, and family of origin problems.
She also supports people dealing with communication or commitment issues and separation or divorce. Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens first, then helps create a plan that feels achievable.
Therapy sessions may blend talking with body-based awareness and exercises when that seems helpful. Taking the first step can feel hard. Jessica offers steady, nonjudgmental support while you work toward clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and more workable habits.
She tailors the pace and tools to each person’s needs and life situation.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic work brings attention to bodily sensations and movement alongside talking. Online sessions may include guided body awareness, grounding practices, and breath work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and learn ways to soothe it. This approach can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic tension.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them. In practice this means noticing difficult thoughts and feelings, choosing what matters, and building small actions that reflect those values. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and when life feels stuck.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. Sessions can adapt over time as needs change, mixing body-based practices, ACT exercises, and cognitive techniques when helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats let people connect from home, fit sessions around busy schedules, and continue work between meetings. The variety of formats makes it possible to use movement, breathing, written exercises, and spoken conversation in ways that suit different people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English