Therapy for Ambitious women in NYC
What if the most ambitious thing you did was choose yourself?
Therapy for ambitious women navigating toxic dynamics at work, in their families, and in love.
A dynamic in your life is leaving you with self-doubt, sleepless nights, and a dread you can't shake.
Maybe it's at work, with a family member, or with a partner.
You’ve worked hard to build the life you have.
You’re capable, driven, and used to figuring things out on your own.
You learned early to be strong, to handle it, to not need too much. It made you successful. It made you easy to be around. It also left you unsure of how to trust yourself and ask for what you need.
You feel it in your body: the migraines, the tight shoulders, the pit in your stomach. It’s impossible to relax.
You go back and forth between "it's not that bad" and "I can't keep doing this." Some days you can handle it. Other days, you don't know how much longer you can.
Your boundaries have slowly shifted. Old wounds keep getting stirred up. You've tried to speak up, to make it better. Sometimes it is better, for a little while.
From the outside, you're handling everything. On the inside, you're exhausted from holding it all together.
The life you've worked so hard for shouldn't cost you your well-being.
Hi, I'm Jessie
I work with ambitious women navigating toxic dynamics at work, in their families, and in love.
You might be deciding whether to stay or go. You might know you're not going anywhere. Or you might be healing from what's already happened. Either way, you don't have to stay stuck.
Using Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and creative arts therapy, we'll work together to help you:
Release the tension you've been carrying and begin to feel safe in your own body
Understand the patterns that keep pulling you back into the same painful dynamics
Trust what you need and ask for it
Make decisions about your relationships from clarity, not fear or guilt
Stay connected to the people you love without losing yourself
I bring 15 years of trauma experience, including more than a decade supporting FDNY first responders. I offer in-person sessions in Manhattan and virtual sessions throughout New York State.
Creative, body-based therapy for healing toxic dynamics
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As a therapist Certified in EMDR by EMDRIA, I offer Attachment-Focused EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR is one of the most well-researched approaches to trauma therapy. It uses bilateral stimulation to support the brain and body in processing painful memories and experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and the kind of overwhelming emotions that can feel hard to put into words.
What makes EMDR distinct is that it works with your nervous system's own capacity to heal, rather than around it. And many people begin to feel a real shift sooner than they would with traditional talk therapy.
The Attachment-Focused approach means your safety and your goals are at the center of the work. The process is adapted to stay attuned to your individual and shifting needs.
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Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-focused, natural approach to healing trauma, developed over decades of research by Dr. Peter Levine. It draws from a unique blend of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, and traditional healing practices. SE is based on the understanding that trauma stores survival energy in the body. When this energy isn’t released, it can cause the nervous system to become stuck in dysregulated states, leading to ongoing symptoms. SE helps restore balance by gently releasing this stored energy and supporting the body's natural healing processes.
I have completed Beginning and Intermediate SE training. I am currently in my Advanced year of training.
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Creative arts therapy integrates the creative process and psychotherapy. It is based on the belief that artistic expression can help individuals communicate, overcome obstacles and manage stress.
Drama therapy draws on the tools of theater, storytelling, role, and embodied action, as a pathway to healing. It's an active, experiential approach that gets you out of your head and into the work. Through drama therapy, we can explore your story, work through difficult emotions, find new perspectives, and experience the kind of release that talk alone doesn't always reach.