Gessica Yearwood , LMHC

Gessica Yearwood is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 6 years of clinical experience helping people navigate life transitions and emotional challenges. She focuses on improving motivation, self-esteem, confidence, concentration, and memory, and offers support for attention-related concerns such as ADHD. Her work also addresses depression, anxiety, and difficult or intrusive thoughts, with practical strategies to reduce distress and build more effective coping skills.

Gessica approaches therapy with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, creating individualized dialogues and treatment plans tailored to each person's unique needs and goals. She emphasizes collaboration and empowerment, guiding clients as they take steps toward a more satisfying and balanced life. Her practice includes work with relationships and family dynamics, grief, sleep difficulties, parenting challenges, anger, phobias, self-love, social anxiety, and issues common to young adults.

Gessica integrates evidence-based methods such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to adapt techniques to each client. She provides services in English and holds professional licensure to practice in Florida as an LMHC.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Gessica uses Client-Centered Therapy to place the client's experience at the center of the process, offering a respectful and empathetic space where individuals lead the exploration of their goals and values; this approach is helpful for building self-esteem and self-awareness. She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties. When emotional regulation and interpersonal challenges are prominent, elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) are used to teach practical coping skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships.

Finding the right combination of methods is part of the therapeutic process. Gessica collaborates with clients to assess needs, preferences, and goals and adjusts techniques over time so the approach fits each person’s circumstances rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all plan.

Online therapy with a licensed professional offers flexibility and accessibility by allowing sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity across changes in location or schedule, and access support in a format that feels most comfortable for the client.