Welcome! I'm Dr. Jessica Fritzges, a licensed clinical psychologist. I am a trained trauma therapist who uses an eclectic mix of treatment approaches to help adults heal from challenges such as abuse in childhood, surviving assault and abuse, military service, natural disasters, or any other overwhelming life events that have made it difficult to feel good and fully engage in life. I also provide psychological testing and evaluation services to diagnose various mental health conditions, such as ADHD, personality disorders, and other types of mental health concerns. If you are struggling to understand your mental and emotional health, and you are ready to get to work in therapy, I invite you to contact me. Together, we can look at what has become difficult for you--the systems, situations, and challenges you face--and begin to work together as a team to find out how therapy might help. At times, some patients begin with a psychological evaluation to diagnose their situation, especially if they have been in therapy before and tried medications, but nothing seems to work. After we determine a diagnosis through an initial session, I might recommend testing to get a very clear picture of how therapy can help. This positions us to get right to work on your treatment needs, if you'd like to stay on as a therapy patient. Whatever your needs are, I will listen with empathy and warmth, and help therapy or assessment sessions to feel like a natural conversation you might have with a friend; but, I will be listening with the training of a skilled psychologist.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session I complete a thorough assessment of your background, your current symptoms and issues, and listen closely to what goals you have for therapy. I will assess your needs by asking several mental health questions to see how I might be able to help address your needs. By the end of the first visit, I will have learned a lot about you! I will offer a preliminary diagnosis at that time, and describe a treatment plan of what I recommend for you in therapy or psychological testing. I invite you to continue on in therapy, or to schedule a testing appointment, depending on your desires and needs.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As a psychologist, my strength in working with patients is in my strong desire to help them feel better and embrace their true selves, sometimes in the most difficult life circumstances. I pull from a variety of treatment techniques--EMDR, ego state therapy, DBT, CBT, psychodynamic approaches, attachment-based therapy--to create a unique treatment plan for each person. I infuse our sessions with what is known and true in the mental health world: psychoeducation about mental health, what the research says, and how we can work together to help you feel better, sooner. I invite you to schedule an initial appointment so we can meet and determine if we'd make a good therapeutic match. Please note: when you book online, appointments are listed in PST time zone. Appointments begin on the half hour and last for 60 minutes.
About Dr. Jessica Fritzges
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EMDR
I'm a trained EMDR therapist. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) sounds unusual if you've not heard of it, but it is an extremely effective way of healing past trauma. It is also very effective in lessening depression and grief; desensitizing patients to vivid, unwanted memories; and bridging the gap between your logical mind ("I know I want to move past this") and your emotional mind ("I feel so strongly about it still!"). EMDR is highly effective for many concerns, and effects real neurological change.
Attachment-based
Many people come to therapy with early childhood wounds. Attachment-based therapy relies on a strong therapeutic relationship between patient and therapist to compassionately look at, and heal, wounds from early life.
Psychological Testing And Evaluation
I provide psychological testing and assessments that result in written evaluations, for a variety of referral questions. I help to determine whether someone might have a neurological condition like ADHD; an intellectual disability or impairment; a problem from concussions or other head injuries; a mental health issue like bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and a host of other concerns. I also write reports for forensic (legal) questions.