Jessica Pustka, LPC

Jessica Pustka is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with nine years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and career or family challenges. She also focuses on parenting concerns and issues common to young adults.

She helps people build practical coping skills and clearer ways to speak up for themselves. Sessions emphasize skills you can use between appointments, such as managing upsetting thoughts and handling tense interactions. Jessica uses straightforward methods drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to guide that work.

Her approach centers on identifying habits that get in the way and practicing alternatives. She supports clients to notice unhelpful thinking, test different responses, and strengthen healthier habits over time. Conversations are concrete and goal oriented so progress can be tracked session to session.

Jessica typically schedules sessions during standard daytime hours, Monday through Friday, roughly 8 am to 5 pm. She encourages people to plan for what they want to address and to bring specific situations or examples to discuss. The emphasis is on skills, problem solving, and building practical steps forward.

Clients who choose to work with her can expect clear explanations of methods, collaborative goal setting, and focused practice. She invites people to try short experiments between sessions and to review what worked or didn’t work on return visits.

How CBT, ACT and DBT inform online sessions