Jess is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC), a National Certified Counselor (NCC), and a Certified Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (C-DBT) provider.

Jess has extensive experience working across all levels of care: inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization (PHP), and intensive outpatient programs (IOP), as well as in the Chicago Public School system.

Jess specializes in treating teens as young as 15 years old across the life span who are impacted by eating disorders, body-image/self-esteem, anxiety, life transitions, grief, and those who experience chronic health conditions as well as trauma. Jess empowers clients by centering autonomy, harm reduction, health at every size principles, and trauma-informed practices. Jess integrates modalities tailored to each client’s specific needs.

Jess’s approach to therapy is oriented from an anti-systems, psychodynamic, attachment-theory, and liberation psychology framework. Through humor, empathy, and compassion, she fosters a therapeutic space that helps clients achieve a deeper sense of self. Jess values collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of providers and community resources to support healing.

Modalities: Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), Internal Family Systems theories (IFS), Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO-DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Health at Every Size (HAES), and Somatic Experiencing practices to establish safety through embodiment.