Jay L
Jay L
If you're feeling stuck—mentally, emotionally, or relationally—overwhelmed by stress, weighed down by anxiety or depression, or simply unsatisfied with how life or your relationship is going, you're in the right place. Happy 2025, and welcome! I’m Julienne, but you can call me Jay. I'm a licensed therapist who specializes in helping individuals and couples move from stress, conflict, and disconnection toward clarity, healing, and meaningful change. 📅 Usual Availability: Mon-Fri, Day 9 AM-2 PM (2p being the last booking for the day) 📅 Extended Summer Hours: Evenings (6/7 PM) and Weekends (Sat/Sun 7/8 AM) by request. BOOK NOW!
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session, we’ll explore what brought you to therapy and begin identifying your goals. I’ll share my approach with you, answer any questions, and give you a clear sense of how I believe we can work together to achieve meaningful outcomes. For couples, I’ll also introduce my comprehensive couples assessment, which we’ll use as a foundation for our work together (learn more during our first conversation together). My goal is to start with the end in mind—your ideal outcome. I believe therapy works best when it’s a partnership: I bring the tools, expertise, and process; you bring your willingness and insight. Together, we’ll get to work. 📅 Usual Availability: Mon-Fri, Day 9 AM-2 PM (2p being the last booking for the day) 📅 Extended Summer Hours: Evenings (6/7 PM) and Weekends (Sat/Sun 7/8 AM) by request. BOOK NOW! 🕑 Reminder: There is a $85 no-show/late cancellation fee, so when you book, please cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours in advance.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
Supporting couples is not just a specialty—it’s a passion. I’ve worked with couples for over a decade, and I draw not only from my professional training but from my own lived experience within marriage. I also support individuals dealing with life stress, emotional regulation, identity shifts, or interpersonal challenges. Clients consistently appreciate my structured, calm, and compassionate presence as they work through sensitive and complex issues.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work with adults navigating life transitions, emotional struggles, and especially relationship challenges such as communication breakdowns, unresolved conflicts, or betrayal wounds. My focus is on helping you create the life—or relationship—you dream of through a structured, solution-focused process that brings real, lasting results. I work best with adults (18+) and committed couples who are ready to grow and make meaningful change. Many of the couples I work with are experiencing high-stress moments in their relationship, from communication issues to deeper ruptures such as infidelity. My approach is structured but collaborative, and it’s been praised for reducing emotional distress, increasing clarity, and rebuilding trust and intimacy with less emotional overwhelm. For individuals seeking personal growth, stress management, or emotional healing, I provide a space that honors your vulnerability while equipping you with the tools needed to thrive. I use a practical, strengths-based lens that helps you define your ideal life and begin actively building it, one session at a time.
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Solution Focused Brief Treatment
This method typically helps to reach treatment goals in fewer sessions than usual but depending on the severity of presenting issues more sessions may be required. I use this method to address all matters in my practice. This is a goal-oriented method, a short-term process that focuses on solutions rather than problems. My clients find this method extremely helpful, hopeful, and encouraging in helping to communicate their desired future and exploring pathways to achieving it. Sessions consist of questions I use to unlock possibilities closing the gap between where you are and where you'd like to be much sooner than later.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
This evidence-based approach I use to help clients identify and challenge core beliefs, negative thoughts, and maladaptive behaviors contributing to their problems. Sessions will consist of me teaching (information) and coaching (implementation) to help build coping skills that support healthier and positive behavior changes through practice, especially outside of sessions. I often use CBT together with SFBT. Again, change can be observed as early as the very first session though depending on the severity of the presenting issues, the clients' response to information, and ones level of motivation to implement tools and resources may interfere on how soon change can be experienced. CBT is mostly employed when we're addressing stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
Couples Counseling
This type of psychotherapy is used with every couple I work with to help improve their relationship dynamic. My process is very unique and structured yet still caters to addressing your specific relationship needs. I do use various approaches, including solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), attachment theory, the Gottman method, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and a host of other methods/tools as deemed appropriate. The length of sessions depends on the severity of the couple's presenting state. Success in the process is determined by the couple engagement and commitment level, however, I encourage committing to at least 10 sessions to stabilize the relationship back to a healthy baseline. Meaningful changes do and can be experienced as early as the first session. For this process to be effective both must first desire to address the relationship challenges together, be motivated, open, ready, and willing to do what is recommended during and outside of the sessions.