Jessica Clark
If you’re tired of understanding why you feel the way you do but still can’t seem to change it, you’re in the right place. I’m a trauma-focused psychotherapist specializing in EMDR, IFS, somatic therapy, PTSD, anxiety, attachment and relationship concerns, grief, neurodivergence, and complex trauma. I help clients move beyond simply coping and begin healing the patterns keeping them stuck.
First session
You do not need to arrive knowing exactly what to say. Many of my clients come to therapy saying things like, “I know there’s a pattern here, but I don’t know how to stop it.” Our first session is about helping you feel understood while we begin connecting the dots between your attachment style, relationship patterns, trauma history, triggers, nervous system, self-worth, and current symptoms. We may explore things like anxious or avoidant attachment, fear of abandonment, relationship anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional unavailability, hyper-independence, difficulty with boundaries, trauma responses, or why certain relationships seem to activate you so intensely. I want you to leave feeling validated, hopeful, and with greater clarity about why you feel the way you do and what we can actually do about it. Together, we’ll begin developing a treatment plan focused not only on symptom relief, but on helping you become more secure, confident, empowered, and connected to yourself.
Strengths
My clients often need more than someone who simply listens. They want a therapist who can deeply understand them, recognize patterns others may have missed, and help them actually create change. I bring warmth, compassion, directness, curiosity, and extensive trauma-focused training into the therapy room. I know when to slow down and simply be present with you—and when to gently challenge a belief, pattern, or protective response that may no longer be serving you. I specialize in helping people who feel deeply, think deeply, or have spent years being told they are “too much,” overly sensitive, difficult, anxious, or different. I am especially comfortable working with complex trauma, PTSD, attachment wounds, abandonment fears, relationship difficulties, grief, dissociation, mood concerns, ADHD, autism and other neurodivergent experiences. My approach integrates EMDR, IFS, somatic work, mindfulness, DBT-informed skills, attachment-focused therapy, and nervous-system regulation. This allows us to work with more than thoughts alone—we can address what you intellectually understand and what your body and emotional system are still carrying. Therapy with me is collaborative and genuine. You will not be treated like a diagnosis or handed generic coping skills. We will work together to understand the whole picture, identify what is keeping you stuck, and build the kind of healing that carries into your relationships, confidence, boundaries, and everyday life. You deserve therapy that helps you understand yourself—and actually feel different.
Ideal clients
My ideal client is ready to understand themselves on a deeper level—not just manage symptoms. You may be successful and capable on the outside while privately struggling with anxiety, trauma, insecure attachment, relationship patterns, people-pleasing, self-doubt, or feeling disconnected from the person you want to be. I especially love working with clients who want to understand how past experiences have shaped their nervous system, relationships, self-worth, and the way they show up in the world. Together, we can work through trauma and attachment wounds while building confidence, healthier boundaries, secure relationships, and a stronger sense of self. My goal is ultimately to help you feel empowered to become the main character in your own life—someone who trusts themselves, knows what they deserve, feels confident in their relationships and decisions, and is genuinely excited about the life they are creating.
Treatment methods
EMDR
I use EMDR to help clients process painful experiences that still feel emotionally or physically “stuck.” Rather than only talking about what happened, EMDR helps the brain and nervous system reprocess distressing memories so they can feel less intense, less triggering, and more firmly in the past.
Attachment-based
I use attachment-based therapy to help clients understand how early relationships and past experiences may shape the way they connect, trust, communicate, and respond to closeness today. Together, we work toward greater security, healthier boundaries, stronger relationships, and a deeper sense of safety with yourself and others.
Couples Counseling
I help couples understand the patterns underneath conflict rather than simply deciding who is right or wrong. We work on communication, emotional safety, intimacy, trust, attachment needs, conflict repair, and the ability to feel like partners again instead of adversaries.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
I use ERP to help clients gradually face feared thoughts, situations, or sensations without relying on the avoidance, reassurance, or compulsive behaviors that keep anxiety going. We move collaboratively and at a manageable pace so you can build confidence, flexibility, and freedom from fear-driven patterns.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I use IFS to help clients understand the different “parts” of themselves that may carry fear, shame, anger, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or the need to stay in control. Instead of fighting those parts, we learn what they are protecting and help them feel safer, allowing more calm, self-compassion, and internal balance.
Location
Virtual sessions