Jessica Peres, LPC

Jessica Peres is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people navigate depression, anxiety, trauma, and addictions with practical care and steady support. Jessica speaks English and Portuguese and aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.

Jessica centers sessions on building self-awareness and stronger communication. She helps clients who feel stuck after difficult life changes, who struggle with self-esteem, or who want to repair important relationships. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on small, doable steps that add up over time.

In session Jessica uses tools drawn from attachment-based work and cognitive behavioral strategies to clarify patterns and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also integrates client-centered listening and mindfulness practices to help people feel more present and steady. Dialectical behavior ideas are used when emotion regulation skills are needed.

Jessica often supports people coping with intimacy-related concerns, relationship conflict, abandonment worries, codependency, and issues around commitment and trust. She also works with those facing caregiver stress, body image distress, substance use concerns, anger, and major life transitions.

Sessions aim to be collaborative: she helps clients set clear goals and practices to try between meetings. People who prefer a therapist who listens without judgment and then offers practical tools may find her approach a good fit.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how past relationships shape current reactions. Online sessions can be used to look at those patterns and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, centers on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it often uses concrete exercises and homework that fit well into remote sessions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and empathy to help people feel heard and to guide their own change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jessica will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with more listening, adding skills training, or mixing approaches over time based on what helps most.

Confirm the available session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins between commitments, sessions without travel time, or using phone when video is difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and tools used in in-person care to remote sessions so clients can practice between meetings.