ROBINSON, PA · TELEHEALTH STATEWIDE

Jessika Izzo, MS, LPC

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • Trauma-Informed
  • ERP Trained for OCD
  • 10+ Years Experience
  • Accepting New Clients

“You do not have to wait for life to get easier before allowing yourself healing, hope, or growth.”

Jessika Izzo is a Licensed Professional Counselor at CPA Counseling’s Robinson office, also seeing clients by secure telehealth across Pennsylvania. Over ten years with adolescents, adults, and families on anxiety, ADHD, OCD, depression, addiction, and life transitions — across every level of care. Specially trained in ERP for OCD. Individual and family sessions, in person or virtual.

No program commitments
10 insurance plans accepted
Teens, adults & families
Telehealth available statewide
In practice 10+ years

WHO JESSIKA WORKS WITH

Who she’s for

Jessika works with adolescents, teens, young adults, adults, and families. Women, men, and LGBTQ+ clients. Individual and family sessions — she does not see couples.

1

Teenagers, and their families.

Jessika offers individual and family therapy for adults and teens. Seeing the young person and the family rather than referring the second half out is unusual, and it means the work does not stop at the therapy-room door.

2

People managing addiction too.

Over a decade across mental health and addiction, at every level of care. That matters: she has seen what inpatient looks like, what step-down looks like, and what people arrive with when it has not worked before.

3

People caught in the loop.

Jessika was specially trained in ERP to treat OCD — the approach with the strongest evidence base for obsessive thinking and compulsion. It is a specific training rather than a general approach. She also works with technology addiction, where the compulsive pattern often looks similar.

why work with Jessika

You already have the capacity

Her stated starting point: you already possess the capacity for change, and therapy helps you strengthen it at a safe, empowering pace. Not a reassurance — a position on where the work actually comes from.

What brings people in

Depression that has flattened things out. A teenager who has changed and nobody can say when. Drinking or using that started as the fix. Hours lost to a screen. Or a pattern that keeps repeating with different people.

How she actually works

Collaborative and trauma-informed, integrating CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, and person-centered work. The trauma-informed part is a lens, not a technique — it means looking at how past experience shapes present interactions before deciding what to do.

What gets different

Emotional regulation, self-awareness, and a healthier relationship with your own thoughts — the three Jessika names. Practically: recognizing unhelpful thought patterns, doing less avoiding, and having tools that work when it matters.

HOW JESSIKA WORKS

Ten approaches, one lens

Everything runs through a trauma-informed lens — how past experience shapes present interactions. The ten approaches get selected around that, not instead of it.

  • CBT
  • DBT
  • ERP
  • ACT
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • IFS
  • Family Systems
  • Person-Centered
  • Strengths-Based
  • Trauma-Informed

1

When the feeling runs the decision

DBT and CBT for emotion regulation — the skills side. Catching the thought as it runs, testing whether it holds, and having something usable when distress arrives faster than thinking does. Particularly relevant where addiction has been the regulation strategy.

2

When the parts of you disagree

Internal Family Systems for the conflicting parts inside one person — the part that wants to change and the part convinced it will cost something. Separately, family systems work when the pattern genuinely sits between people. Jessika sees families as well as individuals, so that can be worked where it actually happens.

3

When you are not sure you want to change

Motivational interviewing, which is built for ambivalence rather than against it — standard in addiction work and useful anywhere someone is half-ready. Not persuasion. Working with the part that is unsure instead of pretending it is not there.

CONDITIONS TREATED

What Jessika treats – who Jessika sees

  • Anxiety
  • ADHD
  • OCD
  • Depression
  • Trauma
  • Addiction
  • Technology Addiction
  • Family Issues
  • Life Transitions
  • School / Academic
  • Workplace Stress
  • Chronic Pain
  • Self-Esteem
  • Anger Management
  • Adults
  • Teens & Adolescents
  • Young Adults
  • Families
  • Seniors
  • Individuals
  • Women
  • Men
  • LGBTQ+
  • College Students

For OCD

ERP trained — specifically for OCD

Jessika received specialized training in Exposure and Response Prevention specifically to treat OCD. ERP has the strongest evidence base for obsessive thinking and compulsive behavior, and most clinicians who treat anxiety do not hold it at all.

“You do not have to wait for life to get easier before allowing yourself healing, hope, or growth.”

CARE PHILOSOPHY

Start where you are. Not where it is easier.

Jessika’s stated position is that you do not have to wait for life to get easier before allowing yourself healing, hope, or growth — therapy helps you navigate where you are while creating change forward. Most people wait for a better moment that does not arrive.

One of the first steps in healing, as she puts it, is creating a supportive space to explore your inner experiences, strengthen self-understanding, and build resilience. Therapy is where you recognize unhelpful thought patterns, reduce avoidance, and build tools for regulating emotion.

Reaching out can feel like a big step, and she is explicit that you do not have to take it alone. The pace is yours — processing experiences at a speed that feels empowering and respectful rather than being moved along someone else’s timeline.

ABOUT JESSIKA

Understood, empowered, and supported

Jessika Izzo has over ten years of experience working with adolescents, adults, and families navigating mental health and addiction challenges across various levels of care.

She specializes in supporting individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma, and relationship difficulties through a collaborative, trauma-informed approach. Her goal is a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients feel empowered to build resilience, strengthen self-awareness, and create meaningful change.

Jessika provides individual and family therapy for adults and teens, in person and virtually. Her trauma-informed approach integrates CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, and person-centered therapy, supporting clients in building emotional regulation, increasing self-awareness, and developing healthier relationships with their own thoughts and emotions.

Using a trauma-informed lens, she explores how past experiences shape present interactions. Her stated belief is that you already possess the capacity for change and that therapy helps you strengthen it at a safe, empowering pace. She holds an MS from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and sees clients at the Robinson office and by telehealth across Pennsylvania.

CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

DEGREE

MS · Counseling

Clarion University of Pennsylvania

CERTIFICATIONS

LPC · Licensed Professional Counselor

ALSO TRAINED

ERP Trained for OCD · Gottman Method

FOCUS

Anxiety · ADHD · OCD

IN PRACTICE

10+ years

Robinson · Telehealth

IN NETWORK

UPMC · Cigna · Highmark · BCBS

Aetna · Geisinger · Tricare · Medicare · Optum · UBH

10+

Years in Practice

Robinson & Telehealth

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ERP Trained for OCD

Rare in this region

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Personalized Care Plans

No program commitments required

CONDITION GUIDE

Therapy guides from Jessika Izzo

  • Patient Zero

    Mental Health

    What Taylor Swift Teaches Us About Parasocial Connection

    Why millions feel they truly know someone they’ve never met — the psychology of parasocial connection, when it’s comforting, and when it’s telling you something.

  • woman lost in thinking about to do items shown on the image

    Anxiety

    When Anxiety Starts Making the Rules

    Anxiety rarely announces itself as anxiety — it arrives as good judgment, feeling like being careful, responsible, or thinking ahead, and by the time you notice, it may have been making your decisions for years. OCD is mostly internal: intrusive thoughts, mental checking, rumination, reassurance-seeking. Both respond well to treatment.

  • Accessibility

    Information

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    Our commitment to an accessible website — WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard operability, high contrast — and a direct contact if you encounter any barrier.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about working with Jessika Izzo

What new clients ask most often before their first session.

Jessika is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over ten years of experience. She works with adolescents, adults, and families on anxiety, ADHD, OCD, depression, trauma, addiction, technology addiction, family issues, life transitions, school and workplace stress, chronic pain, self-esteem, and anger, drawing on CBT, DBT, ERP, ACT, motivational interviewing, IFS, family systems, person-centered, and strengths-based approaches.

Yes, and it is one of her main focuses. Jessika was specially trained in ERP — Exposure and Response Prevention — specifically to treat OCD. It works by gradually facing the trigger without performing the compulsion, until the anxiety loses its grip.

It is a lens rather than a technique. It means assuming difficult experience may be shaping how you respond now, and looking at that before deciding what to do about it. In practice it changes pace and sequencing — nothing is pushed faster than feels safe, and you are never required to recount something you are not ready to.

Yes. Jessika is accepting new clients at the Robinson office and through telehealth across Pennsylvania. She is in network with UPMC, Cigna, Highmark, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicare, Optum, UBH, Aetna, Geisinger, and Tricare. Request an appointment online or call 412-439-1416.