Dr. Jessica Dennis, LPC

Dr. Jessica Dennis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with more than 11 years of professional experience. She focuses on relationship concerns alongside stress, anxiety, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her approach aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and respectful of each person's pace.

She meets people through live chat messaging only at this time, and notes that phone or video sessions are not offered. Most appointments are scheduled in the evenings, though she is open to setting regular chat sessions earlier in the day on request.

In sessions she creates a simple, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through feelings and practical problems. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with anxiety, depression, ADHD, anger, and coping with life changes. Work often includes coaching-style conversations for career issues and professional stress.

Dr. Dennis also supports people affected by trauma and abuse, addictions, and issues tied to multicultural concerns, prejudice, and discrimination. She has experience with first responder issues and with helping people recover from compassion fatigue.

Taking the first step can feel hard, and she acknowledges that courage. To begin, prospective clients use the platform's continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule based on her availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How evidence-based techniques translate to online chat therapy

Many evidence-based approaches are adaptable to written chat. Cognitive techniques focus on noticing unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing different ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. These methods lay out small, doable steps people can try between messages.

Coaching-style conversations are practical and action-oriented. They help people clarify career goals, plan next steps, and break tasks into manageable pieces. For compassion fatigue and first responder concerns, brief reflective chat exchanges can help identify boundaries and self-care strategies to try right away.

Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and tailor techniques to a client's goals, needs, and pace. That collaboration helps shape whether more cognitive work, coaching, or trauma-informed pacing will be emphasized.

This therapist currently offers live chat messaging only, so prospective clients should confirm session options before booking. Online chat can fit into a busy day, let people reflect before replying, and make shorter check-ins easier to schedule. It also removes travel time and lets conversations happen from wherever someone is able to message.