About Me

Hello! I’m Jessi.

I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I offer online therapy to clients in the San Francisco Bay Area and online anywhere in California.

I provide client-centered compassionate psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and couples who are seeking to make meaningful changes in their lives.

Working from a holistic perspective, I integrate trauma-sensitive, mindfulness, body-oriented, and attachment-focused approaches. I synthesize strategies from methodologies, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (somatic), Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, and Non-Violent Communication (NVC).

Using these tools, I’ll help you slow down and notice the dynamics, beliefs, and behaviors that cause you suffering. By helping you cultivate deeper self-awareness, I will support you to release the harmful patterns that no longer serve you.

My approach is engaged and supportive. I am not interested in labeling you or in looking for “what’s wrong with you.” I am here to hold space for your experience, and to help you find a way to live with more ease and satisfaction.

I bring a social-justice and feminist lens to this work and value supporting clients who experience marginalization and disenfranchisement, including racism, homophobia, antisemitism, sexism, abelism and other forms of discrimination. 

Working together, I can help you gain more access to your innate wisdom, resilience, and capacity for growth, and support you in (re)connecting with your underlying wholeness.

If you want to geek out on psychological theories, these are some of the lenses I use:

Who I Work With

I specialize in working with:

• Individuals struggling with self-criticism, shame, low self-esteem and self-worth, including perfectionists, workaholics, people-pleasers & over-thinkers

• Individuals suffering from depression, anxiety & stress

• Couples and families working on communication skills, intimacy issues, conflict resolution & navigating life transitions

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer adults, adolescents and couples

• Transgender, Non-Binary, Genderqueer individuals, and their partners and families.

• Family planning, infertility, parenting and queer conception.

• Individuals who experience social marginalization, including People of Color (POC), first & second-generation immigrants, and clients from SWANA backgrounds (Southwest Asian and North African).

• Individuals who are exploring spiritual, existential & personal growth interests

• Individuals working through illness, grief, & loss

We can work on any of these issues and more.

My Background

I have enjoyed supporting clients in private practice, hospital, and agency settings, and my background includes:

• Private Practice Internship with Grateful Heart Holistic Counseling Center, Oakland, Berkeley and Greater San Francisco Bay Area

• Counseling adolescents & their families at Adolescent Counseling Services, Palo Alto.

• Providing therapy to LGBTQ+ individuals, couples, & their families at the Outlet Project, Mountain View and Palo Alto.

• Facilitating substance abuse counseling at Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Program in Palo Alto and Redwood City.

• Serving as a hospital chaplain at San Francisco’s California Pacific Medical Center, counseling patients struggling with illness, grief, and life transitions

• Teaching mindfulness & self-compassion groups independently in schools, clinics, & through Mind Body Awareness Project, Oakland

Education & Trainings

• Brainspotting with Lisa Larson Phase 1 & 2, Online.

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Training, with Janina Fisher & Kelley Callahan, Berkeley.

• Somatic Attachment Therapy training with Karen Rachels, Oakland.

• Non-Violent Communication training with Ali Miller, Berkeley.

• Certification in Clinical Pastoral Education, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco.

• Research published on marginalization, meaning in life, and mindfulness in the International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy

• Certification in Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment, and training with Mindful Schools

• MA in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University; specialty in Holistic Studies, emphasis in Queer Consciousness & Buddhist Psychology