Jessica Mangan
Experienced counselor focused on practical change
LPC Michigan
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Languages
- English
About Jessica
Jessica Mangan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical experience in Michigan. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, family and parenting challenges, grief, anger, self-esteem struggles, career questions, bipolar disorder, depression, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional focus areas include guilt and shame and exploring life purpose. Her background includes work in crisis units, mental health centers, and correctional settings, and she has held leadership and staff training roles.
Jessica’s approach is warm, straightforward, and practical. She blends evidence-based methods to help clients increase insight and develop concrete skills they can apply right away.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her toolkit alongside dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions emphasize a collaborative relationship where the client’s goals guide the work.
Clients can expect a therapeutic environment aimed at fostering growth and manageable change. Jessica aims to provide tools for immediate use while also supporting longer-term shifts in thinking and behavior.
Her clinical perspective is informed by broad experience across settings and a commitment to helping people move through difficult times toward healthier, more satisfying lives.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skill building
Jessica commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new, more adaptive behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Mindfulness Therapy encourages present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of thoughts and feelings to help regulate emotion and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to consider symptoms, goals, and preferences and then tailors techniques from CBT, mindfulness, or other methods to fit what will be most helpful for that individual.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work together through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing clients to access therapy from their own locations and routines. These formats make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy lives while still focusing on skill practice, homework, and real-time problem solving with a licensed professional.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Michigan
Languages
English