Meet Jessica
Jessica currently offers online individual therapy for Ontario residents. She is an EMDR Trained Clinician and Certified Clinical Trauma Specialistic (CCTS-I).
Jessica is dedicated to providing a safe and supportive environment for individuals seeking therapy for complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, stress, and grief/loss.
Jessica's approach is trauma-informed, compassion-focused, strengths-based, and person-centred. She focuses on building the therapeutic relationship and tailors her approach to each client's needs. She also strives to create a natural therapeutic environment, encouraging authenticity and humour.
Services
Our Therapy Can Help with
Trauma Recovery
Our therapy sessions are designed to help individuals recover from past trauma and regain a sense of control and empowerment in their lives.
Anxiety
We offer various techniques to help manage and alleviate anxiety, allowing our clients to experience a greater sense of calm and well-being.
Safety and Connection
Our approach emphasizes regulating the nervous system and building safety and connection in the body.
Depression
Our approach uses various techniques and therapeutic interventions to help understand and alleviate depression.
Stress Reduction
We offer stress reduction strategies to help individuals cope with the demands of daily life and experience greater peace of mind.
Grief and Loss
We take a compassionate, supportive, and grief-informed approach to those experiencing grief, traumatic grief, and loss and integrate finding hope and meaning in their journey.
Therapy Approach
EMDR
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based treatment for trauma and PTSD. EMDR activates our brain's natural healing capabilities and decrease distress associated with trauma memories. As a result, EMDR can also help relieve trauma-related symptoms, including anxiety, depression, flashbacks, and nightmares.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is based on the idea that each person is made up of different "parts" that have their own purpose and function. These parts consist of Exiles, Managers, and Protectors. The different parts of the system could look like an inner critic, perfectionism, guilt, or shame. By taking an IFS/parts work-informed approach, we integrate work with these parts to better understand them and facilitate harmony and well-being within your internal system.
Integrative
Depending on a client's individual needs, interventions and techniques from various therapies are often integrated into our work with clients. Different therapies we integrate include narrative therapy, mindfulness, somatic therapy, CBT, DBT, attachment-based, and polyvagal.
Compassion-Focused
A Compassion-Focused approach navigates feelings of shame and internal criticism and focuses on fostering self-acceptance, emotional regulation, and self-compassion.
Person-Centered
A Person-Centered approach focuses on an individual's autonomy and understanding of themselves. We adopt an unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, and genuineness to facilitate healing
Strengths-Based
A Strengths-Based approach focuses on empowerment and the positive qualities and strengths an individual has to facilitate growth.