I take an integrative approach to therapy with an emphasis on a client-centered approach to build rapport and meet the needs of my clients. I specialize in working with trauma survivors, anxiety disorders, and relationship-based issues.

Finding the right support for your teen can seem daunting, but I'm here to help. Hi there, my name is Jessie! As a licensed clinical social worker with 7+ years of experience, I've helped teens and families thrive in settings like residential treatment, outpatient care, and community programs. I specialize in helping teens ages 12-17 reduce anxiety, cope with depression, manage attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), address behavioral issues, navigate family conflict, handle school or social challenges, reduce self-harm and suicidal thoughts, or recover from substance use. I provide individualized care unique to your teen. Using evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and acceptance and commitment therapy, I offer a person-centered approach that honors each teen’s strengths. Together, we’ll address challenges like anxiety, life transitions, and relationships, fostering resilience, growth, and calm through mindfulness. My favorite part about working with teens is witnessing their incredible capacity for growth and transformation! As a part of the Evolve Adolescent Behavioral Health network, I've seen life-changing transformations happen in families. Together, we'll create a path forward to lasting change.

I’m a registered associate clinical social worker and LGBTQ2STGI+ affirmative therapist with over a decade in the film industry as an International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) camera department member. Trained in emotionally focused therapy (EFT) and certified in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), palliative care, and SafeTALK suicide prevention, I work through a holistic, anti-oppressive lens that integrates parts work, somatic awareness, and creative expression. As a queer person, film professional, and trauma survivor, I bring lived experience, compassion, and active collaboration to therapy—helping clients grow, explore, laugh, and rest. I work across the lifespan, specializing in LGBQ2STGI+ care, occupational stress, chronic or life-altering illness, and inner child reparenting. I especially value working with film industry folks, knowing firsthand the demands of life on set.

Life can be messy and overwhelming, and seeking support is a courageous step. I provide a warm, welcoming space to help you work through challenges, heal from past experiences, and move toward a life that feels more authentic and fulfilling.

I specialize in relationships and heartbreak issues of all kinds. I offer support and teach clients coping skills for trauma, grief, anxiety and depression. I place a strong emphasis on unleashing positive energy and highlighting strengths to help clients succeed in their relationships and lives. I offer a safe space where clients can explore challenging emotions and understand negative patterns that may undermine their success and happiness. I work with my clients to help them release negative habits and nurture positive change to bring forth greater joy and satisfaction in life. Other areas of expertise include support for veterans, divorcees, first responders, and other survivors of trauma.

I support teens and young adults in building coping skills and navigating anxiety, identity, stress, and life transitions. Whether you are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, disconnected, or simply ready to explore more about yourself, I am here to help you navigate these challenges. I am an associate marriage and family therapist employed by Chambliss and Associates, MFT Inc., and I am passionate about supporting adolescents, teens, and young adults as they navigate anxiety, identity, self-esteem, school, relationships, and life transitions. Before becoming a therapist, I worked as an elementary educator and school counselor, which gives me a deep understanding of the social, academic, and emotional experiences young people face. I offer individual therapy for adolescents, teens, and young adults who are dealing with anxiety, self-esteem difficulties, academic or life pressures, and relationship challenges. I earned my master’s in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. My style is warm and collaborative to help you understand your experiences, build coping strategies, and reconnect with your strengths, values, and sense of self. I integrate evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness, and psychodynamic and strengths-based perspectives to support you. I offer virtual sessions throughout California, and provide a free initial consultation so you can get a feel for working together. Whether you are a parent seeking support for your child, or a person reaching out for yourself, I am here to help guide the process with care and collaboration. I am supervised by Cathy Chambliss, LMFT 39875.

I work with individuals from late adolescence through middle adulthood, with a special focus on college-aged individuals and those navigating the challenges of young adulthood. Many of my clients come to therapy struggling with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or difficulty connecting with others socially or emotionally. Some feel stuck, unmotivated, or overwhelmed by stress. Others are navigating relationship issues or life transitions and want support in understanding their patterns and moving toward healthier connections. My therapeutic approach is warm, collaborative, and goal-oriented. I draw from a range of evidence-based methods—including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Humanistic Therapy—to meet each client’s unique needs. I often find CBT especially helpful in addressing anxiety, depression, and social skills by offering clear, practical tools for change. Together, we’ll work to build insight, strengthen hope, and create meaningful goals that support lasting growth and emotional well-being.

The tools that help you develop successful careers are often not the same ones that help create a successful home life. As a psychologist with a diverse personal and professional background, I hope to help you develop the communication skills, self-healing, and personal growth that will lead to the intimate relationships you are wanting in your life.

People who have worked with me say, "You're called a shrink, but our work together makes me feel expanded, clearer and empowered. I am now able to think differently about myself, my life and my relationships and, as a result, I can see my part in what's happened in my past and I have the chance to transform how I act and live in the future." I've been so excited and so gratified over my 25 years of practice to see how many people I've been able to help profoundly. People who work with me say they feel heard and understood, often for the first time. Even more importantly, our work together allows you to have access to your own wisdom - the source of real answers - and then to act in accordance with your authentic values. As a result, you can not only find usable solutions to long-standing problems, but also experience greater self-confidence (where you used to experience frequent self-doubt). I see each of us humans as whole and complete but many who enter my office for the first time are feeling very different from that. I hold on to that point of view as I help you to see "behind your back," where useful clues exist, and to show you how the meaning you are attributing to events impacts your experience of living. By expanding the ways you think, you can worry less and become more effective at dissolving your unwanted beliefs (or mis-beliefs), your undesirable habits and your pattern of getting upset repeatedly over the same things. I aim to get you to think and then feel and act unstuck from what you've created. The bottom line: you will function better and feel more productive and happier. This approach will allow you to reclaim elements of your health, vitality and even your youthfulness. Significantly, I've seen these shifts become permanent, time and again, as individuals, couples and families discover they are capable of transforming relationships and long-standing destructive patterns. The latest research validates that this type of therapy results not only in feeling better and functioning better, but in literal changes to the brain. Your life can actually become easier, making decisions can become less burdensome and yes, even your dreams can turn into probabilities.

Relationships can be so hard, especially with the stress life throws at us. I help parents, children, and couples connect in healthier, calmer ways. Whether your child just won’t listen, you are parenting a neurodivergent child, you are a single or adoptive parent, you are co-parenting through divorce, you and your partner are repeating the same fights or trying to heal from an affair, or you are just feeling overwhelmed by conflicting generic advice, I’m here to help. Together, we will find and use your family’s unique strengths to untangle your particular challenges. Come home to a calm, safe place where everyone feels loved. I use emotionally focused therapy (EFT) to renew and refresh bonds. I have an Internal Family Systems (IFS) lens: we often have conflicting needs and desires. I use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to process trauma and tools from Gottman, DIR Floortime, Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and play therapy to help families thrive. Whether you’re facing constant battles, neurodivergence, adoption, parenting as a single person, divorce, or the aftermath of an affair, you don’t have to do it alone. Once you have solidified a strong, secure bond with those closest to you, life gets easier. You deserve the deep sense of security that comes from fulfilling family relationships.

Life can feel overwhelming when you're weighed down by unresolved trauma, relentless anxiety, creative blocks or the deep pain of grief. You might find yourself stuck in ruminations that keep you from moving forward—whether you're a high achiever or someone supported by your family just launching - mental health issues hold us back from reaching our full potential. Navigating a painful breakup, feeling intense insecurity or struggling with people-pleasing, humans can find themselves in patterns they can’t seem to break. But there’s hope. Together, we can work through these heavy emotions, helping you find relief and renewed purpose.

Being alive is a constant process of evolution and transformation, sometimes seemingly without our input. At times, the ever-evolving quality of life can feel exciting and expansive, and at others, it can feel overwhelming and chaotic. Psychotherapy provides a unique opportunity for the client and therapist to curiously engage with, untangle, and understand life’s processes—beginning to understand the inner world and its effect on the external. In doing so, a softening of rigid defenses and old patterns begins, inviting symbols, feelings, memories, thoughts, and desires to emerge in service to a fuller expression of the self. It is a process where creative impulses are given the freedom to evolve from the unknown. The ultimate goal is to cultivate a sense of self that feels embodied, integrated, and more deeply connected to both personal truth and relational others. My personal style as a clinician is humorous, warm, honest, and empathetic. I practice from a psychodynamic perspective, grounded in analytic and psychoanalytic theory. In practice, I am compassionate and collaborative, balancing supportive and expressive techniques as needed to help people recognize patterns of relating, explore their emotional depths, and uncover meaning in their experiences. Every person is unique, and the therapeutic encounter is a deeply connected experience. As a result, psychotherapy is highly individualized to the client. While honoring each person’s individuality, I also recognize that as human beings, we are not so different from one another, and many of our sufferings run in similar veins. I work well with people who are navigating their identity and how it can be expressed in the world, processing early childhood wounds, struggling with religious trauma, understanding neurodivergence, and working through grief and loss. As a former designer, I have a unique insight into the creative experience, which allows me to provide empathy and understanding to creatives struggling to express themselves fully. Mostly, I enjoy sitting with people who are curious and seek to better understand themselves and others.