Offerings
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but
nothing can be changed until it is faced."
~James Baldwin
Individual Therapy for Adults
Jessi provides therapy for individuals 18 years and older looking for support with skillfully managing life demands and transitions, depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, complex trauma, and identity reclamation. Jessi has a passion for working with cycle breakers, parents, therapists, and all those yearning for more authentic living. She supports clients who seek therapy for a specific challenge and those who want an ongoing therapy relationship to work on longer standing dynamics, patterns, and deeper healing. Jessi has expertise in the complexity of divorce, relational trauma, acute and chronic health conditions, recovering people pleasers, and is queer, polyamory, and kink informed and affirming.
Co-Parent Counseling
Parenting is tremendously challenging, and striving to do it well with a former partner is even more nuanced and complicated than most can (or want to) imagine. Jessi draws on her 20 years of providing adult, child, and family therapy and knowledge of the trials of divorce to help co-parents work together in developing the practices that will best support their children. Co-parent Counseling can include helping parents prepare to tell children about separation or divorce, constructing a therapeutic parenting plan, navigating conflict around a specific parenting decision, as well as working with parents to support their children thrive in different households. Jessi believes strongly that children deserve and can have healthy and happy relationships with those in separate households even when the adults do not like each other. Co-parent Counseling can be done with individual parents, divorced/separated co-parents, nested partners, or an entire parenting team. Co-parenting Counseling can be especially useful in navigating conflict and uncertainty in times of transition including divorce, re-partnering, blending families, and new developmental needs of children. Jessi works with co-parents in all stages of family life, including pre-separation and parenting adult children. Sessions are available as standard 50 minute sessions as well as intensives of 3-5 hours.
Therapy Intensives
Therapy intensives are specialized, extended sessions of 3-5 hours for clients that want to have additional time to work towards resolution of a treatment goal. The extended sessions allow include breaks as needed and can be done as a single session or in sequential days. Therapy intensives can be particularly helpful for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) clients who prefer to move through reprocessing a trauma memory outside the constraints of standard 50 minute sessions. They are also helpful for co-parents looking to work through initial or updated parenting plans without the tension or rates of opposing attorneys. My goal in working with co-parents in this setting is to help them consider the current and anticipated needs of their child(ren) and collaboratively identify the parenting schedule and practices that will best support the wellbeing of each child. A consultation call and at least one standard 50 minute session are required before collaboratively deciding if a therapy intensive is a good fit. You can read more information about EMDR here.
Therapy Groups
Healing happens in safe community, and participating in group therapy can be invaluable in one's journey. Jessi offers group therapy options for women and femmes transitioning out of longterm marriages/ relationships, those in step-parenting roles, and for women and femmes navigating challenging/contentious co-parenting dynamics. All groups are explicitly LGBTQ++ and CNM affirming, anti-racist, and trauma-informed. Past group members have said that participating in the group has greatly enhanced their healing. Read more about the group offerings here.
Presentations
Jessi has a decade and a half of experience presenting locally and nationally at conferences, providing workshops for clinicians, educators, parents, and community members, and serving as a guest-lecturer for undergraduate, graduate, and professional classes. Her most recent presentations include Mindful Parenting, Special Considerations for Parents Practicing Non-Monogamy, Mid-Life Awakenings, Supporting Children of Divorcing Parents, Activist Burnout Prevention and Care, White Humility and Allyship, and Mental Health Needs in College. Jessi welcomes inquiries from groups and organizations for her to customize a presentation to meet their unique needs.