Jessica Benash, LCSW

Jessica Benash is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Wisconsin with 18 years of experience. She works with people dealing with anxiety, depression, stress, parenting challenges, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, and related issues. Jessica has worked in residential treatment, day treatment, and outpatient settings and also teaches in a university social work department.

She uses straightforward, goal-focused methods in sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her approach, helping clients notice and test unhelpful thoughts and habits. She also blends client-centered, solution-focused, mindfulness, and trauma-focused techniques as needed to address a concern practically.

Jessica often helps clients who are caregiving for people with chronic pain or illness, navigating divorce or blended family dynamics, dealing with abandonment or shame, and handling career or financial stress. Her background includes supporting people who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse and those grieving suicide loss.

In sessions she focuses on identifying strengths, setting concrete goals, and practicing different responses to old patterns. She aims to help clients develop skills they can use between meetings, such as thought records, brief behavioral experiments, and mindful checking-in exercises.

Jessica combines clinical experience with teaching, which she says keeps her approach current and practical. To begin, the usual first steps are a short matching questionnaire and scheduling an initial session so goals and a plan can be discussed.

How Jessica combines practical approaches in online sessions