Jessica Busekist, LMHC

Jessica Busekist is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with ten years of clinical experience. She takes a client-centered approach and places the person’s goals at the center of each session. Jessica focuses on practical steps you can use between meetings to handle stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and the day-to-day demands of caregiving.

She helps people work through trauma, grief, and relationship strain with respectful listening and clear next steps. Jessica also supports those managing chronic illness, chronic pain, or the emotional toll of caring for someone else. Sessions often include setting small goals, learning coping skills, and tracking progress together.

Jessica uses a mix of methods such as EMDR for processing traumatic memories, motivational interviewing to support behavior change, and solution-focused techniques for brief, goal-directed work. She adapts the pace to match each person’s comfort and readiness to change. The aim is steady progress rather than instant fixes.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She invites clients to be involved in treatment choices and to prioritize what matters most to them. Parents and caregivers will find support for everyday stress, decision fatigue, and compassion fatigue.

People who prefer a therapist who listens first and offers concrete tools second may find this approach helpful. To start, clients follow the site process to match and schedule sessions based on the therapist’s availability.

How Jessica’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, respect, and working at the client’s pace. In practice that means the therapist follows what matters most to the client and helps shape goals together. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity; it can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms and difficult memories.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Jessica will talk with each person about their needs and goals and will adapt methods as progress unfolds. That collaboration helps decide whether to focus on processing past events, building skills for the present, or setting short-term goals for change.

Confirm the available session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people continue care during life transitions and helps maintain consistency in appointments without requiring major changes to daily life.