Biography:
Jessica supports individuals from diverse personal, professional, and ethnic backgrounds across a wide range of difficulties. Her career spans across private clinical practice, the alcohol and substance use sector, departmental child protection, youth-at-risk education facilities, perinatal clinical services, and the NDIS space.
Some of the issues you may wish to reach out to Jessica about are spousal conflict/separation, parenting, infant mental health, (child) sexual abuse, unexpected life changes, loss of loved ones, and difficulties associated with mental health diagnoses, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar, eating disorders, ADHD, Autism, and OCD. Your needs and expectations are an important part of Jessica's therapeutic approach. Practicing from a strength-based perspective, past and present difficulties are seen as evidence of your incredible resilience in overcoming adversity.
Jessica uses a variety of therapeutic approaches, including attachment-based and psychodynamic practice, Schema therapy, EMDR, ACT, CBT, MBSR, and so more.
Outside of her clinical and academic work, Jessica provides clinical supervision, offers workshops and delivers training to mental health clinicians and allied health services in the area of her expertise. She has presented as guest lecturer in the tertiary sector.