Dr. Jessica Curd, LCSW

Dr. Jessica Curd is a licensed therapist in Indiana with 19 years of clinical experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and life transitions. She holds a PhD in social work and is a nationally certified grief and loss and end-of-life counselor, and she is also credentialed as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her practice focuses on a wide range of concerns including ADHD and Autism support, relationship and parenting challenges, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, and caregiver and compassion fatigue issues.

She takes a collaborative, client-centered approach that invites clients to share thoughts and feelings without judgment while working toward practical goals. Dr. Curd uses evidence-informed methods - including cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies - to help clients build coping skills, increase motivation, and strengthen self-esteem. She also offers support for complex issues like attachment and abandonment, trauma and dissociation, chronic illness and pain, and family-of-origin dynamics.

Outside of her professional work, she enjoys spending time with family and their dogs, being outdoors running, hiking, and camping, traveling, learning new things, and creative writing. She aims to create an encouraging therapeutic relationship where taking the first step toward a more fulfilling life is met with understanding and skilled guidance.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Dr. Jessica Curd integrates client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to tailor online care to each person's needs. Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, empathic relationship and helps clients explore their feelings and values to find personal solutions - it is useful for self-esteem, coping with life changes, and grief. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress management. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and relationship skills are central concerns, teaching concrete strategies to manage intense emotions and improve communication.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process, and Dr. Curd works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they adjust goals and techniques as progress unfolds to ensure treatment stays relevant and effective.

Online therapy offers flexible access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit regular sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity during life transitions. For many clients, these options increase consistency and convenience while maintaining the same therapeutic focus and clinical expertise they would expect in person.