My Approach

Jessica is passionate about the power of relationships, whether those relationships are with yourself, your partner, your family of origin, or the family you're building. She is committed to helping individuals and couples better understand themselves, strengthen their relationships, and build a strong foundation for whatever season of life comes next. Jessica works with adults across many stages of life and has particular expertise in perinatal and reproductive mental health. She believes in the impact of the individual, recognizing that personal growth creates a ripple effect across relationships and every aspect of life.

Jessica is dedicated to supporting individuals and couples through fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, pregnancy and infant loss, and adoption. She has extensive experience working with individuals and couples navigating infertility, IVF and other fertility treatments, third-party reproduction, pregnancy after loss, recurrent pregnancy loss, NICU stays, stillbirth, and loss related to genetic or medical complications. Within and beyond the reproductive years, she is passionate about working with those experiencing relationship challenges, difficult family dynamics, chronic illness, PMDD, and trauma throughout all seasons of life. She is committed to helping individuals and couples navigate these experiences with compassion, expertise, and evidence-based care.

Jessica received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Chicago Crown School of Social Work. She has extensive training and experience specializing in women’s mental health from the start of her career, including serving in leadership and supervisory positions at Columbia University Irving Medical Center as well as advisor to the US Pregnancy After Loss (USPAL) network. She additionally has experience as a doula, mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting teacher, and perinatal yoga teacher. She is also well-attuned to the mind-body connection, leading her to become trained in EMDR in order to be able to help you reprocess stress and trauma, including birth trauma, that may be living in your body and nervous system.

In addition to her clinical work, Jessica is engaged in advancing the field of women's and reproductive mental health. She provides supervision, offers consultation, and teaches continuing education courses for mental health professionals to help expand access to thoughtful, specialized care for individuals and families.