Jessica Gum, LISW-CP

Jessica Gum is a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) practicing in South Carolina with eight years of professional experience supporting individuals through stress, anxiety, trauma, and grief. She provides care for clients navigating LGBTQ+ related concerns, depression, and the many challenges that can affect daily life and relationships. Jessica centers each person’s own perspective, honoring that clients are experts in their own stories and have strengths that can be mobilized to meet challenges.

Using evidence-based therapeutic techniques, she focuses on practical skills and emotional processing to help people manage overwhelming feelings, improve communication, and cope with loss or past harm. Jessica recognizes that beginning therapy takes courage and affirms that decision while working collaboratively to identify goals and resources. Her approach is strengths-focused and client-centered, offering supportive guidance for issues such as trauma and abuse, grief and loss, questions of sexuality and identity, and patterns of isolation or control. Prospective clients can expect a compassionate, collaborative process aimed at fostering resilience and clearer paths forward.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Flexible Online Care

Jessica uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to stress and anxiety that teach practical coping skills, emotion regulation, and strategies for managing panic and social anxiety. These approaches focus on changing patterns that maintain distress and building tools to reduce daily symptoms and improve functioning.

She also applies evidence-based methods for working with trauma, grief, and mood concerns that support processing difficult experiences, making sense of painful emotions, and restoring a sense of agency after loss or harm. These methods help clients explore their stories at a manageable pace while strengthening resilience and self-care.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Jessica works with each client to identify goals, preferences, and needs, and together they adapt techniques that best fit the person’s situation. Clients are partners in selecting the path forward and adjusting it as progress is made.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access consistent support from licensed professionals while balancing work, family, and other commitments.