Jessica Busekist

Jessica Busekist is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who works from a client-centered perspective. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and related concerns. Jessica aims to meet each person where they are and involve them in planning their care. With ten years of experience, Jessica has worked in a variety of settings with many different people. She helps clients name their needs and decide what steps feel right for them. That might mean learning new coping skills, processing painful events, or getting steady support for everyday challenges. Jessica uses approaches that emphasize the client's voice and goals. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, responsive relationship. She also uses EMDR for people who want to address traumatic memories, and Motivational Interviewing when people need help finding direction and momentum. Her style is practical and collaborative. Sessions often focus on clear goals, small steps, and skills clients can try between meetings. Jessica encourages people to bring what matters to them - symptoms, life stress, or relationships - and together they figure out what to do next. People looking for help with caregiver stress, chronic health issues, grief, parenting challenges, or mood and trauma-related concerns may find this approach useful. Jessica practices in New York and conducts work in English.

How Jessica's Approaches Translate to Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities. In practice this means sessions emphasize the client's goals, with the therapist following the client's lead to decide what to work on. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, anger, and life changes by building a supportive working relationship.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a method used to address distressing memories. It involves guided processing of those memories so they feel less overwhelming, and it is often chosen by people coping with trauma or severe distress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with the client to choose or adapt methods based on needs, goals, and comfort. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted over time as progress or new priorities emerge.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because the biography does not list formats. When arranging online therapy, people often appreciate being able to fit sessions into a workday, reduce travel time, or choose a quieter time at home. Some formats make it easier to have shorter check-ins or to avoid video when that helps focus on talk-based work. Ask about current session options to find what fits your routine and preferences.