Adult Individual Therapy

Specializing in therapy for anxiety and trauma

 Providing online therapy across CA and

outdoor therapy in Oakland & Bay Area

(unceded land of the Ohlone people)

Your body, mind, and emotions are re-living the past on repeat or terrified of what might happen in the future. Your thoughts feel uncontrollable, inescapable, and exhausting.

There is a path towards healing.

Are you feeling?

  • Anxious, stressed out, and “on edge”

  • Shut down, heavy, and exhausted

  • Agitated, angry, and irritable

  • Pain and tension in your body (headaches, stomachaches, chest pain…)

  • Numbness or feeling “out of body”

  • Confused and isolated

  • Lonely and unsure who to turn to when life gets tough

  • Sad and hopeless

    The benefits of therapy:

  • Creates safety and ease in the whole self (body, mind, spirit)

  • Shifts distressing & triggering memories to “a thing of the past”

  • Alleviates bodily tension & chronic pain

  • Increases hope and sense of purpose

This work is intergenerational ancestral work. The healing does not stop with you. When we heal, our siblings heal, our parents heal, our cousins heal. Generations that have passed on and generations to come.

Therapy breaks intergenerational cycles of pain and transforms them into healing.

 

Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture.

-Resmaa Menakem

Life often leaves us disconnected…

  • Disconnected from our self

  • Disconnected from our body

  • Disconnected from our purpose

  • Disconnected from friends or family

  • Disconnected from community

  • Disconnected from nature or the greater universe

You want to root back into relationship with yourself and others, but aren’t exactly sure how.

If you are feeling any of the emotional or physical symptoms above, I want you to know; it is not your fault. A world like ours that is fraught with systemic inequities, suffering, and oppression, is not your personal failure. You deserve to live a life that is joyous, peaceful, and connected. Therapy can be one piece of the healing journey and I would love to be there alongside you.

My name is Jess, I am here to partner with you in your healing journey.

You deserve someone who truly sees you for you and supports you by asking the question, “what do you need in your healing journey?” and incorporating that into the therapy space. I have been on my own healing journey for quite some time and know how vulnerable it can feel to reach out for support, especially from a stranger. I meet you where you are at in this moment and we decide together what you would like therapy to look like and feel like. I utilize a radical mental health lens along with a wide range of therapy techniques to guide people in their personal healing. Learn more about me here. Learn more about my approach here.

Specialties & Services

 

In-person and remote options for adult individual therapy.

I can provide outdoor in-person therapy in Oakland, CA and virtual therapy from across California.

 
 

Fill out this form to tell me a little about yourself and schedule your free 20-minute consultation.