Jessica Stern

Trusted New Hampshire psychologist and coach

NH Psychologist 937 New Hampshire

Experience: 30 years in practice
Focus areas: Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
Approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
Languages: English, Spanish

About Jessica

Jessica Stern is a licensed psychologist in New Hampshire with three decades of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, and life transitions.

Background and approach

She brings a practical, goal-oriented focus to sessions and blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with psychodynamic and trauma-informed techniques to tailor treatment to each person's needs. Her background also includes work with parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, career questions, and multicultural issues, and she conducts therapy in English and Spanish.

Stern’s practice emphasizes collaboration and clear treatment planning; she combines evidence-informed strategies such as CBT and EMDR with attachment-informed perspectives and mindfulness practices as appropriate. Her training and long practice have included support for clients facing abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family dynamics, immigration-related stress, and serious health issues like cancer.

With experience across family-of-origin problems, panic and post-traumatic stress, she integrates coaching elements when clients pursue life purpose or career goals. Availability includes international clients through a flexible, subscription-based model, and sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.

How Jessica’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve functioning; it is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and stress-related concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact through guided techniques and bilateral stimulation. Attachment-Based Therapy explores relational patterns formed in early life to improve current relationships and address issues like abandonment, blended-family dynamics, and intimacy challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist collaborates with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and then recommends an approach or combination of methods that best fits the situation, adjusting over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: clients can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging based on what feels most accessible. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while accommodating busy schedules, geographic constraints, or language preferences since sessions are available in English and Spanish and international clients are accepted.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Jessica address?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting challenges, LGBT concerns, and related areas such as career and life transitions.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her approach is goal oriented and collaborative, combining cognitive-behavioral techniques with psychodynamic, mindfulness, attachment, and trauma-focused methods as appropriate.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 30 years of clinical experience working as a psychologist and life coach with a wide range of concerns and populations.

What credentials and location are listed?

She practices as NH Psychologist 937 and is based in New Hampshire.

Does she work in other languages or accept international clients?

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she does accept international clients.

Which session formats are available?

Clients can meet via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference and therapist availability.

How are costs and billing handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the steps to begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling sessions according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuse Grief Depression

Also works with

LGBTFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCoaching

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBlended family issuesCancerCommunication problemsFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsImmigration issuesIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMidlife crisisMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacks Post-traumatic stressSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapyPsychodynamic TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

30+ years

Licensed

New Hampshire

Languages

English, Spanish