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Jessica Katz

Compassionate, experienced counselor for practical growth

LMHC, LPC Utah

Experience
21 years in practice
Focus areas
Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Parenting
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
Languages
English

About Jessica

Jessica Katz is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, and life transitions.

Background and approach

With 21 years of clinical experience and credentials as an LMHC and LPC, she blends practical strategies with a compassionate, person-focused stance to support clients through grief, addiction issues, intimacy concerns, ADHD-related challenges, and self-esteem struggles.

Jessica draws on a range of approaches to tailor work to each person’s needs, including cognitive behavioral techniques that address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Her style emphasizes collaboration and gradual skill building.

She likens therapy to learning a dance where control sometimes shifts between client and clinician, and where patience, trust, and self-kindness are essential parts of change. Jessica also integrates attachment-informed perspectives and EMDR when addressing trauma and relational wounds, aiming to help clients develop more effective coping patterns and improved emotional regulation.

Based in Utah, she works with individuals facing family and relationship transitions, caregiving stress, body image and eating concerns, codependency, dissociation, and other complex issues. Jessica frames the therapeutic process as a partnership focused on practical tools, insight, and steady progress toward the client’s goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and How They Translate Online

Jessica uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues. Attachment-based work examines relational patterns formed over time and supports rebuilding healthier ways of relating to others, a useful pathway for attachment wounds, relationship struggles, and some trauma responses. She also integrates EMDR when trauma processing is appropriate, employing structured protocols to address the emotional and somatic impact of distressing memories.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to explore goals, preferences, and the nature of the presenting concerns, adjusting methods over time so treatment aligns with what helps the client feel safer, more effective, and more in control of daily challenges.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for scheduling and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit care into busy lives and to maintain continuity of work while adapting techniques such as CBT exercises, attachment-focused conversations, and trauma-focused interventions to remote settings.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting and relationship difficulties, depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, and intimacy-related problems.
What is her therapeutic approach and style?
Her style blends client-centered collaboration with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based work, EMDR, existential ideas, and motivational strategies to build coping skills and insight.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 21 years of experience as a mental health professional working across a variety of presenting concerns and family situations.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds LMHC and LPC credentials with license numbers NY LMHC 017541 and AL LPC LPC05804, and she practices from Utah.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
She provides services in English and is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available for therapy?
Clients can connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on their preferences and availability.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a time based on the therapist’s availability.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily problemsFatherhood issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Existential TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Motivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

21+ years

Licensed

Utah, Florida, Minnesota, Alabama, New York

Languages

English