About Jess

Your Online Therapist for Sensory Processing Differences

"And if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal. Enter into happiness, and burst."

- Mahmoud Darwish -

As a deeply feeling, deeply thinking person of course I ran headfirst into psychology; wide-eyed and aimed at understanding myself and others more fully. During my 20 years in helping professions I've done my best to weave what I've learned and, more importantly, unlearned into a relational space of accompaniment with curiosity. I try to lead with interest, and hold lightly any theories that attempt to explain our inner worlds too neatly. Life is pretty wild and we can't hack the hard parts. We find our way through, largely because we have one another. I began my training in a systems framework, and this is where I return. To a softer place where care is embedded in context, healing is collective, and mind/body are connected.

A Gentle, Body-led Approach for Sensory Overload

In many ways, my ability to inhabit this work is thanks to the parts of myself and my/our ancestry that have carried both the gifts and the challenges of sensitivity in its varying expressions. I approach each therapy relationship with understanding that is rooted in experiences of self, other, interconnected whole, and the belief that we all benefit from the container of safe relationship that carries, pushes, strengthens, and encourages us along our paths.

What this looks like in action...

Therapy is led with curiosity and interest, not judgment.

Honoring and leveraging the fundamental relationship between your mind and body and its natural hierarchy.

Balanced space for talk, silence, learning, practice, and

Encouraging a web of therapeutic relationships that offer care, connection, and meaning to your life.

Aiming for supported and resourced, not "healed."

Things That Soothe My Senses

Wild places, ferns, moss, grandmother trees, wabi-sabi gardening, entering my children's imaginative world through play, creating, cooking, baking, embroidery, memoirs, writing poetry, reading poetry, letter writing, rediscovering classic fiction, a good cup of coffee, time away from screens, time with (wonderful and terrible) documentaries on screens