Jessica Woods

Hello! My name is Jessica Woods and I am a licensed clinical social worker providing therapeutic services to adults dealing with challenges, such as anxiety, depression, trauma grief, and a variety of other mental health issues. I have over 10 years experience working as a medical social worker in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, and for the last three years, have focused on providing solely one-on-one therapy services to adults via telehealth. What I most enjoyed about being a medical social worker is when I got to work directly with patients and their families one-on-one, and so I have taken that love and channeled it into focusing on direct counseling full-time.

I take a very strength based and solution focused approach to therapy. I think it is very important that I am able to help my clients both understand why they are having the challenges they are, develop compassion for the self, and then help them build the skills to improve their lives and thrive.

The goal of my first session is to hopefully be able to demonstrate to my clients the importance of feeling safe, heard, and respected. The first session is an opportunity for them to both share what has brought them to therapy, but it is also my responsibility, which I take very seriously, to be able to give them at least some sense in that first session of who I am as a provider and how I can best help them. I also make it very clear to clients in the first session that this is about them, and not my ego, so if they feel after our first session that it’s not a good fit, I highly encourage them to find someone who they feel is better suited to help them.