Jessi provides therapy for individuals 18 years and older looking for support with skillfully managing life demands and transitions, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, complex trauma, and identity reclamation. Jessi has a passion for working with cycle breakers, those yearning for more authentic living, and therapists. 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 uses an integrated approach to working with clients, customizing the approach that will work best for each one. She has expertise in supporting those navigating the complexity of divorce, acute and chronic health conditions, recovering people pleasers, and is polyamory and kink informed and affirming. 

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Jessi has received extensive training and consultation in several different kinds of therapies over her 20 years of work as a psychotherapist. She draws most heavily on her expertise in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Sand Tray Therapy, and Filial Therapy. Jessi believes that therapy is a blending of art and science and often integrates the different techniques together to  customize client care. Jessi is committed to ongoing education and training and is currently working towards EMDR certification with EMDRIA. 

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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 the children impacted by sharing their lives with adults who live apart.  Co-parent Counseling can be done with individual parents, nested partners, divorced/separated co-parents, and 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 from pre-separation to parenting adult children. 

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. ​​

​​​​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 organizations for her to customize a presentation to meet their unique needs.​