Jordan is excited to work with individuals, couples and families. Her focus is on clients who need a boost in working through their daily stressors, anxiety and depressive feelings they might be having. With her creative approach, she will approach the counseling relationship allowing the client to become comfortable with their own creative side. Doing so will give the client a different perspective on the healing process and different interventions to use outside of the office.

Pain demands your attention, it demands an explanation, and it demands a response.

If you’ve been dealing with chronic pain for any length of time, then you know this all too well. You also know that the attention pain demands can be exhausting, its explanations are rarely satisfying, and treatments are often disappointing.

Though you might feel hopeless at times, you can learn to better manage your pain and live a productive, fulfilling life. It starts with understanding how your relationship with pain influences the pain you experience.

Jessica comes from a multi-faceted and diverse background. Traveling around the world throughout her childhood, adolescence and adulthood has culminated in an empathetic and compassionate approach to anyone she meets. As a child of an active-duty military father, she had to move every three years. With every new move, she learned to adapt to situations, cultures, and structured systems to survive. This ability has affected every aspect of her career. As the Director of Social Services for a 180-bed Skilled Nursing Facility, she learned what true advocacy and compassion are. Serving a lower-income socioeconomic caseload introduced her to the many trials and tribulations of not only happiness but survival.

I am passionate about helping couples, families, and individuals navigate the nuances of life and relationships by fostering a collaborative, safe, and connected therapeutic relationship. If you find yourself feeling trapped in a cycle of conflict with your partner, child, or family member that seems hopeless and never-ending, I can walk along with you on the path to regaining hope, peace, and meaningful connection.

People tend to avoid going to therapy. There are lots of possible reasons why; financial concerns, time concerns, not knowing how the process actually works, fear, etc. While I genuinely understand all of the hesitations and reason I also want to explore what is holding you back from living a more authentic life, a more peaceful life, a more fulfilling life.

With spring on the horizon, many people recommit to their new year’s resolutions to lose a few pounds to achieve that perfect summer body. For some people, dieting may lead to an unhealthy relationship with food and their body. Prevalence rates of eating disorders are on the rise in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, The National Eating Disorders Association hotline experienced an increase in calls by 70-80%.

What is structural integration? Basically, I use manual therapy and self-care education to help you find lasting relief from pain and stress. My approach is tailored to your needs and oriented around a process that takes your whole body, and you as a whole person, into consideration. This work is about helping you learn how to find a sense of comfort and ease in your body that’s authentic and sustainable so that you can be more fully yourself, at home in your body, and available for life. After a session, clients often report feeling lighter, taller, with less pain and fewer movement restrictions. With diligence, these feelings can often deepen and sustain over time.

There are some disadvantages that should be acknowledged when deciding whether to meet online or in person. One thing that should be considered is the internet; if the connection is slow there may be a lot of buffering and cutting out which could make a session unsuccessful and difficult to follow. Another consideration to be made is that not having that face to face contact can lack nonverbal cues and can make it difficult for people to feel validated or understood. The therapist might also miss cues and could potentially dismiss something that might have more importance than it seems.

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When pets become sick or injured, it causes considerable stress and anxiety for the owners. People often don’t think of the impact it has on the doctors, nurses, and other support staff that are treating the beloved fur-babies. Those professionals enter the field because of their love, passion, and commitment to the creatures that enter through their office doors. While in school, I had the opportunity to work in this area and have first-hand experience behind the scenes.

Allow me to introduce you to a treatment called EMDR. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. I know… it’s a mouthful! Stay with me for a moment, as this is just a fancy title for a treatment that helps our traumatic memories become less disturbing. The memory of a troubling event (or phobia) can get “stuck” in our mind or body.

The pain born of such suffering can paralyze us, leaving us broken inside and barely getting by with the motions of life. Whether we remain stuck or move forward is determined in large part by our resilience.

Are you filling in the blanks for others? Knowing and accepting that we cannot control other’s thoughts and feelings have been part of my process, and they might be a part of yours too.

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While everyone is affected by COVID-19 differently, there are at least two ways in which this pandemic has impacted us all. It is important to understand how COVID has influenced us to better understand effective strategies and ways to cope with this new life stressor.

My running partner and I have covered a lot of miles together. I have come to realize she is often the motivator and I’m the detractor. She is like sunshine and I’m like the rain. She soars and I drag my Asics. As we near the top of a steep hill I think “this is where I die” and she shouts “we got this!”

The most frequently expressed concern about Play Therapy is the perception that there is no apparent treatment goal and that activities are purely about play. This could not be further from the truth!

Research strongly supports the use of agonist medications, such as Suboxone or buprenorphine, to reduce opioid use and help clients stay in therapy (Connery, H. S., 2015). When someone becomes physically dependent on opioids, excruciating withdrawal symptoms can keep them stuck in the cycle of addiction. Medications, such as Suboxone, block the receptor cites eliminating drug cravings and painful withdrawal symptoms, allowing that person the freedom to return to normal functioning.

I am writing to spark a critical conversation on the topic of childhood sexual trauma. I care very deeply about the lives I am fortunate enough to be a part of through my therapy profession. After many interactions with clients, colleagues, and individuals in my personal life, it became clear that the conversation needs amplifying.

“Anxiety” can refer to many experiences. Nervousness before taking an exam or going to a job interview. Worrying about whether you made a good impression on your date. A general feeling of dread and ‘what-ifs’ not attached to any specific event. A sudden surge of fear, with a trigger or without, that can’t be reasoned out of. With so much falling under the heading of ‘anxiety,’ it’s no wonder that generalized statements such as ‘everyone gets anxious, don’t worry!’ or ‘anxiety should always be medicated!’ can produce misunderstandings, frustration, and the sense that you’re not being listened to.