Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapists in 73099

My name is Jessica Haworth. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor. I am a person-centered therapist with a trauma informed approach. I work with individuals and couples who have relational and sexual trauma. I typically work with individuals and couples who have experienced childhood and adulthood traumas such as molestation, sexual assault, parental abuse, and intimate partner abuse. I also work with individuals in life transitions and those learning to manage anxiety and/ depressive symptoms.

I am passionate about holding space for individuals who want to do the work to move from surviving to thriving in a life they feel good about living. My clients are better able to explore emotions, heal unresolved trauma, learn how to express their reality, communicate more effectively, set healthy boundaries, share their needs and wants as well as live in balance and spontaneity.

Hello to you from an affirming, eclectic, down to earth human who happens to be a therapist. Thank you for taking the first step to creating intentional space for yourself. Vulnerability, exploration, new skills, facing past hurts, and living authentically can seem challenging and not easy at times. Change can be tough, even scary, yet create endless possibilities for living the life you choose. Yes this is possible! My most focused areas are traumas, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, relationships, toxic relationship healing. Also, teens surrounding childhood trauma, sexuality, and transition to adulthood. Teen life ain’t easy!

Grief and loss presents itself in a basket of multifactorial components. Grief tugs at our hearts and minds through a significant loss or conflict. I have a strong passion for helping people who are struggling with grief from the death of a loved one, trauma, relationship issues, blended families, career issues, chronic illness, or life’s trials and tribulations. Believe it or not, we can even have grief from lack of boundaries and people pleasing. In a world where we tend to avoid grief and loss in hope it will simply disappear, we may find it creeping back in. This can be intentional or unintentional. I often hear “I feel stuck”.

In my way of working with you, I lay my personal issues aside for our time together and give myself plenty of internal space to resonate with you on a gut level. As I hear your story in words I also hear it in feelings. A good therapist puts these two narratives together, the spoken one and the emotional one, in getting to an accurate understanding of you. When I merge this understanding with my training in psychology, which is extensive, I'm able to reflect purposefully with you about what might be wrong; about "how" you're hurting.

I imagine therapy as engaging in a process or strategy for growth. Sometimes growing is a simple step of strength and enrichment towards goals. Sometimes growing is a journey from pain through suffering into wholeness. I believe your true self was made in the image of God, to experience life that is full and abundant. Many adversities can impact the journey towards wholeness. I honor your starting place, and I look forward to partnering with you as you redeem your sufferings and restore your peace and hope.

I’m guessing, those crap moments of life are getting the best of you. They bring chaos that can suck the life out of us and literally ruin some or all areas we have worked so hard to be successful in, relationships, career growth, raising amazing kids, or even the small things like keeping the kitchen clean not being late to work, brushing our teeth like we have been told our entire lives. Being consistently overwhelmed can create anxiety or depression, which often turns into isolation and irritation; and we become our worst critics. As you try to do all the things to manage life, there is still no relief.

As a counselor, it is my passion to assist those through the struggles along life's journey. We are all living through difficult times which can make us feel isolated, alone, anxious depressed or just extra. In addition, these stressors can also increase how we experience and perceive the stressors of everyday life as well as how we communicate and interact in relationships with those we love the most. If you want to gain some control over your emotions so that you are living the life you deserve, then therapy could be the answer for you and I would be honored to be on this journey with you.