Jessica Coburn, LMHC

Jessica Coburn is an Iowa-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 15 years of clinical practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, career struggles, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and major life changes.

Her sessions aim to be direct and practical. She offers short-term crisis appointments for immediate problems and longer work for complex issues. In crisis meetings she focuses on de-escalation, clarifying the core problem, and leaving with a concrete next step.

Coburn also helps people coping with chronic pain, medical trauma, and cancer history. She acknowledges the exhaustion and isolation that come with long-term health issues and addresses grief and medical fatigue without minimizing the experience.

Her approach uses clear, action-oriented tools. Clients can expect structured journaling, in-session exercises, and homework to apply new skills between meetings. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are part of her toolkit alongside mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques.

Work tends to be collaborative and practical. She focuses on realistic changes that fit daily life, like brief behavioral experiments, values-based decisions, and specific communication strategies. That makes sessions useful for both urgent problem solving and sustained change.

How CBT, ACT and collaborative work translate to online sessions