Compassionate, science-based mental health therapy for burned-out humans
You are compassionate and capable. You are often the go-to person for your family, your work team, and your friend group. You feel like you are constantly in motion. You rarely have an idle minute and sometimes it feels like you’re just running in circles, trying to make sure everyone else is covered.
You really do love your people and your causes, but lately, you’re feeling drained and detached - maybe even a little resentful - and it’s starting to affect how you show up at home, in your relationships, and at work.
Maybe you know exactly why things have shifted. A breakup? A rejection at work or from a friend? An old wound opened up in a new relationship?
Or maybe you’ve just finally had enough of pushing aside and explaining away this gnawing feeling, and you’ve started to wonder what else could be possible for you.
You’ve read all the books and listened to hours of podcast episodes on “self-care” and you get that things should feel different in your life (more balanced, more fun?!) but you’re not sure where to really start.
You’ve always been taught to take care of others, that selflessness is a virtue worth aspiring toward. Hell, you’ve built a whole identity - maybe even your career - around this belief!
What would it even look like for you to put yourself first? To take a little more for yourself? Maybe alot more…
What if you didn’t have to wait for your body to break down, retirement to arrive at your door, your kids to be out of the house, your parents to be settled, your partner’s work stress to stabilize, or for everyone else to be well in order to give yourself permission to change something?
Maybe what you’re feeling isn’t that you don’t want to care for others anymore.
Maybe you’re just tapped out on living as though you have to wait in line for your turn until everyone else’s needs are fully met.
A more balanced and connected life is possible.
Hi, I’m Jessica!
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and EMDR therapist licensed in Louisiana, Texas, and North Carolina. I love working with helpers and caregivers to resolve issues related to self-worth, anxiety, over-functioning, people-pleasing, overwhelm, burnout, direct and vicarious trauma, and attachment injury.
In my fifteen years of education and nonprofit direct service and administration, I have experienced firsthand the numbness, overwhelm, rage, desperation, escape fantasies, and exhaustion that are so common among helpers and caregivers (paid & otherwise!)
Burnout and overwhelm don’t have to have the last word.
Call it compassion fatigue, burnout, vicarious trauma - all of these have their rightful place - but the bottom line is that the experience of it sucks.
Without a real plan for support, the daily experience of helping and caregiving can suck away the energy, creativity, compassion and joy that make you a force for change in your community. This can leave you feeling overwhelmed, drained, uninspired and even hopeless.
You deserve to live a joyful and balanced life that is aligned with your values, and despite what you may have been conditioned to believe, self-compromise is not a prerequisite.
I will work alongside you to find a sustainable life pace that fills you with joy, supports your work for social progress, and prepares you to welcome whatever is in your path - beautiful, painful, and unexpected - without the suffering that comes from resisting the reality of your experience.
I emphasize that helpers and caregivers are human, with the same core needs to feel safe, hopeful and connected in their daily experience.
Through a compassionate and science-based approach to therapy, I help people who are feeling symptoms of burnout or overwhelm in their personal and professional lives to reconnect with what makes them feel whole and to find balance, joy, connection, safety and hope in the full range of their human experience.