Jessica Hartmann, LICSW

Jessica Hartmann is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) who has provided individual therapy since graduating from Simmons School of Social Work in 2017. She earned her LICSW in Massachusetts in 2020 - a credential that indicates advanced training and authorization to provide independent clinical social work and psychotherapy. Over the course of her career she has worked across legal settings, hospitals, primary care, schools, and community agencies, bringing both professional breadth and personal life experience to her practice.

Jessica emphasizes a client-centered approach that recognizes there is no single path that fits everyone. She takes time to get to know each person and offers practical strategies for coping, processing difficult experiences, and changing unhelpful patterns of behavior. Her practice supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and major life changes, and she also works with relationship and family concerns, parenting and adoption or foster care issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, ADHD, and related areas.

Clients can expect a collaborative partnership focused on building skills, strengthening relationships, and empowering them to pursue the life they want, whatever that looks like.

Approaches and Online Care with a Client-Focused Lens

Jessica often uses client-centered therapy, which prioritizes the individual s goals and pace and focuses on understanding the person s experience without judgment. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while exploring what changes they want to make.

She also draws on trauma-focused therapy when past events continue to affect daily functioning and wellbeing. Trauma-focused work involves targeted strategies to process and reduce the ongoing impact of traumatic experiences and to build coping skills for managing triggers.

Additionally, Jessica incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and skills-based, and it can be useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and other common concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Jessica works collaboratively with each client to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts strategies over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy formats - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to schedule care around work, family, and other commitments. These options provide flexibility and accessibility, allowing clients to engage in consistent work with licensed professionals from the places that work best for them.