ROBINSON, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

Jessica Henry, MA, LPC

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • MA Art Therapy · Seton Hill
  • SITCAP Trauma Certified
  • In Outpatient Since 2014
  • Accepting New Clients

“Acknowledging change, and the bravery to show up to counseling, is a success in itself.”

Jessica Henry is a Licensed Professional Counselor at CPA Counseling’s Robinson Township office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. In the mental health field since 2006 and in outpatient practice since 2014, she works with teens, young adults, adults, couples, and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, relationships, grief, and life transitions. Her master’s is in art therapy with a specialization in counseling.

Jessica Henry
No program commitments
Highmark · Cigna · Aetna · UHC · UPMC · EAP
Teens, adults, couples & families
Telehealth available statewide
In outpatient since 2014

WHO JESSICA WORKS WITH

Who she’s for

Jessica works with teens, young adults, adults, couples, and families. Women, men, and college students. Since 2006, and in outpatient practice since 2014.

1

Older teens and young adults.

Her stated area of extensive experience: the stretch where people are navigating transitions, shifts, and bumps. Leaving home, finding footing, working out what they actually want — and the anxiety that tends to travel with all of it.

2

People carrying more than one thing.

Jessica is dual-diagnosis trained and has a trauma certificate, with years in community mental health and group homes for adults with serious and persistent mental illness. Co-occurring difficulty is familiar ground rather than a referral.

3

People who do not want to just talk.

Her master’s is in art therapy, which is rare in outpatient practice and genuinely different. For people who find words insufficient — or exhausting — there is another way in.

why work with Jessica

Showing up is already the hard part

Her own position: acknowledging change, and the bravery to show up to counseling, is a success in itself. If getting to the first appointment felt like the whole mountain, she treats that as the work having already started.

What brings people in

Anxiety that has taken over the planning. Depression that has outlasted its reason. A relationship running the same argument. Something that happened and has not settled. A transition that landed harder than expected. Or caring for someone else until there is nothing left over.

What sessions are like

Collaborative, and she means it as a working method rather than a nicety. She describes herself as a firm believer in teamwork and values the collaboration that develops in a therapist-client dynamic — which means she expects you in it, not receiving it.

What gets different

Your own metric for happiness — her phrase, and a deliberate one. Not someone else’s idea of better. A clearer read on what is actually happening, and tools that hold up when the session is over.

HOW JESSICA WORKS

Nine approaches, and art therapy

Jessica works from a range of modalities and says she challenges herself to meet a client where they are in the process. The art therapy training sits underneath all of it as a different route in when talking is not working.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Family Systems
  • Solution-Focused Therapy
  • Person-Centered Therapy
  • Psychodynamic
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Strengths-based therapy

1

When the thinking is the problem

CBT and TF-CBT for anxiety, low mood, and the beliefs trauma left behind — catching the pattern as it runs, testing whether it holds, and building something usable between sessions.

2

When it is between two people

Gottman Method for couples, with family systems work when the pattern runs wider than the two of you. Her master’s specialization was marriage and family therapy, so this is foundational rather than an add-on.

3

When words are not enough

Art therapy, which almost nobody in outpatient practice offers. For trauma that resists narration, for younger clients, and for anyone who has talked about it before and found it did not move — a different route to the same place.

CONDITIONS TREATED

What Jessica treats – who Jessica sees

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Trauma
  • ADHD
  • Marriage & Couples
  • Family Issues
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Controlling Relationships & Gaslighting
  • Codependency
  • Grief & Loss
  • Life Transitions
  • Caregiver Stress
  • Workplace Stress
  • Self-Esteem
  • Anger Management
  • Adults
  • Teens & Adolescents
  • Young Adults
  • Families
  • Individuals
  • Women
  • Men
  • Seniors
  • College Students

For art therapy

A master’s in art therapy — the only one here

Jessica holds a Master of Arts in Art Therapy with a specialization in counseling, plus a bachelor’s in psychology and studio art, and is SITCAP trauma certified — a structured sensory trauma intervention that connects brain and body after trauma through art and sensory-based techniques. Nobody else in the practice has that training.

“I am honored to help folks navigate difficult times and find their own metric for happiness.”

CARE PHILOSOPHY

Teamwork. And she means it.

Collaboration is the method, in Jessica’s view, not the tone. She describes herself as a firm believer in teamwork and says she appreciates the collaboration that develops in a therapist-client dynamic — which means she is expecting you in the work, not receiving it. She challenges herself to meet each client where they are in the process rather than where a protocol says they should be.

ABOUT JESSICA

The bravery to show up

Jessica Henry has been working in the mental health field since 2006 and in outpatient practice since 2014, with a wide range of clients and mental health difficulties.

She has extensive experience with older teens and young adults navigating life transitions, shifts, and bumps, and is comfortable working across the lifespan. She holds a Master of Arts in Art Therapy with a specialization in counseling, lending a focus on marriage and family therapy, alongside a bachelor’s in psychology and studio art.

Jessica is SITCAP trauma certified — a structured sensory trauma intervention that works to connect brain and body following trauma through art and sensory-based techniques. She is also dual diagnosis trained and works with stage based treatment and motivational interviewing. She has worked in group homes for adults with serious and persistent mental illness and spent ten years in community-based mental health, as both therapist and supervisor.

She is a firm believer in teamwork and values the collaboration that develops in a therapist-client dynamic, challenging herself to meet each client where they are in the process. Her own position is that acknowledging change, and the bravery to show up to counseling, is a success in itself. She sees clients at the Robinson Township office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

DEGREE

MA · Art Therapy, Counseling Specialization

Seton Hill University

CERTIFICATIONS

LPC · Licensed Professional Counselor

ALSO TRAINED

SITCAP Trauma Certification · Dual Diagnosis · Motivational Interviewing · Stage Based Treatment

FOCUS

Art Therapy · Trauma & Co-Occurring · Young Adults

IN PRACTICE

Since 2014 · 12 years

Robinson Township · Telehealth

IN NETWORK

Highmark · Cigna · Aetna · UnitedHealthcare · UPMC · Workplace Options EAP

In the field since 2006

2014

In Outpatient Since

Robinson & Telehealth

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Master’s in Art Therapy

The only one in the practice

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Personalized Care Plans

No program commitments required

CONDITION GUIDE

Therapy guides from Jessica Henry

  • Mental Health

    The Same Hill, Two Experiences: Tandem Cycling & CBT

    The same hill can feel completely different to two people riding it together — for one, speed means danger; for the other, speed means fun. That gap is a central idea in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): our emotions are shaped not only by what happens to us, but by how we interpret it. CBT helps us notice those automatic interpretations and respond with more balance. Christina Binder, LSW practices in Center City Philadelphia and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.

  • Relationships

    What Actually Changes in Couples Therapy

    Most couples arrive at therapy still hopeful — tired of the same argument and wanting it to stop, not deciding whether to leave. With me, a session isn’t two people venting while someone nods: I give feedback and hand over usable skills, using the Gottman Method to find the pattern underneath the conflict. Ashlie Mohney, LPC works with couples in Pittsburgh’s Robinson area and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.

  • Codependency

    Relationships

    Codependency: When Caring for Someone Costs You Yourself

    Codependency is a pattern — not a diagnosis — where your sense of self becomes tied to managing, pleasing, or rescuing someone else, and your own needs get filed under “later” permanently. It’s usually a skill that was learned somewhere and once kept you safe. Because it’s a pattern rather than a disorder, it can change. Kelly Schworn, LPC offers person-centered therapy in English and Spanish in Pittsburgh’s South Hills and across Pennsylvania.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about working with Jessica Henry

What new clients ask most often before their first session.

Jessica is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been in the mental health field since 2006. She works with teens, young adults, adults, couples, and families on anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, marriage and couples concerns, family issues, emotional abuse, controlling relationships and gaslighting, codependency, grief and loss, life transitions, caregiver stress, workplace stress, self-esteem, and anger, drawing on CBT, TF-CBT, Gottman Method, family systems, solution-focused, person-centered, mindfulness-based, motivational interviewing, and strengths-based approaches.

A different route to the same place. Art therapy uses making rather than only talking, which helps where words have not been enough — with trauma that resists narration, with younger clients, and with anyone who has talked it through before and found it did not move. No artistic skill is required or expected.

No, and that is the most common reason people hesitate. Art therapy is not about producing something good — it is about using a different route when words have not got there. Jessica is SITCAP trauma certified, which connects brain and body after trauma through art and sensory-based techniques.

Yes. Jessica is accepting new clients at the Robinson Township office and through telehealth across Pennsylvania. She is in network with Highmark, Cigna, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, UPMC, and Workplace Options EAP. Request an appointment online or call 412-439-1416.