Jessica Allison, LSCSW, Senior Associate
Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker
Jessica Allison, completed her master’s in social work in 2018 at the University of Kansas, where she interned on a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy treatment team. Jessica has experience in providing individual, family, and group therapy.
Jessica has experience working with both teens and adults with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and Gender Dysphoria. In her sessions, she works to balance radical acceptance of emotions with behavioral modifications for change. As a member of the FPS staff, she has taken additional training in the Gottman method of couple's therapy, Acceptance and Committment Therapy (ACT), and sex therapy and sex education.
Jessica focuses on finding the middle path in delivering therapeutic services for clients who are often stuck in extreme positions and ways of thinking. She helps identify action steps to create a more meaningful life worth living. She utilizes dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), radically open DBT, solution focused, and family systems therapy to help clients identify treatment goals based on their own values to make meaningful change in their lives.
Jessica believes that success in therapy begins with building a trusting and supportive therapeutic relationship. Jessica’s style of therapy is humorous, direct, creative and supportive. Jessica believes that everyone is doing the best they can and what’s to help motivate her clients to do more. Jessica believes in the individual uniqueness amongst all of us and wants her therapy sessions to reflect the unique individual she’s working with.
Jessica accepts Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Aetna, United, Ambetter, and Cigna. She does not accept KanCare (Medicaid) nor any form of Medicare.
From Dr. Wes: Some young mental health professionals have gone all the way through college and completed their masters programs and worked for a few years and still don't know what they want to do. Jessicaj isn't one them. She's known for a long time that she really wants to be a therapist. To do this work well you have to love it. You have to enjoy the richness of getting to know others as well as the academic process of learning how to help them. You have to bring a vibrance to the interaction that invites clients to become enagaged, especially when working with teens and young adults. Jessica is that person. Earlier this year we welcomed her promostion to Senior Associate at FPS, a position she has earned through years of hard work, training, and dedication to client care. She is now providing advanced teaching and supervision to LMSWs at our office.
Jessica's Schedule
PLEASE READ BEFORE EXAMINING THE CALENDAR BELOW: Jessica's availability for appointments is listed below. You CANNOT schedule here, only see availabilities. Jessica's evening and after school schedule is typically filled during the school year with existing clients. Regardless of availability, she may not be taking new clients. The appearance of an opening does not guarantee an appointment, it only allows you to see what is available to request. Contact the office at 785-371-1414 to schedule or if you are a new client, fill out the ask about services form. Due to how Google masks event details, the availability is listed as "busy." This means that anything that shows up as "busy" is actually OPEN for an existing client appointment.