Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum Therapists in 95811

Are you a new parent? Are you feeling anxious, isolated, sad, or irritable? Motherhood not what you expected and feeling overwhelmed? You may also be struggling with infertility and grieving the loss of your dream of motherhood. Whether you have experienced a pregnancy loss or are facing an uncertain pregnancy, or finding it difficult to prioritize self-care while raising kids, I am here to help. I offer counseling for residents in California who are dealing with perinatal or postpartum depression, anxiety, grief/loss, birth trauma/PTSD, and the challenges of early parenthood.

Are you feeling stuck? Are you juggling so many responsibilities that your own needs come last? Is it hard to take time for yourself? If you answered yes to any of these questions, please know that you aren’t alone and therapy can help. I work with adult clients struggling with anxiety and relationship challenges, and I am particularly passionate about supporting moms through pregnancy and beyond. I offer Telehealth therapy to clients throughout CA, and in-person therapy to clients in the Sacramento Area.

“Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, need, or should do it alone.” – Lisa Olivera. I deeply understand and respect the complexity of the human experience. I consider it a privilege to work with children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples as they navigate life. I consider it a privilege to work with children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples as they navigate life. I collaborate with clients to learn their unique needs, individualize therapeutic tools, and integrate research-based techniques.

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” My clinical experience includes working with adults, children, adolescents or families who are struggling with challenging behaviors, toxic relationships and/or complex emotions. These struggles can cause profound sadness that physically hurts inside of you. I specialize in flushing out negative thought patterns and working through traumatic experiences that keeps individuals, families and couples feeling struck in an emotional vortex and trapped in recycling toxic behaviors. By working together, we can unlock your courage to ask. Everything you need to heal is inside of you!

I believe the best way to make progress in therapy is to have trust that your therapist understands you and makes you feel as comfortable as possible. I will try my very best to be that person for you. Therapy can seem weird, and vulnerability is hard for anyone. My name is Jess and I am an LCSW in California. I have worked in the medical field for most of my career. This has given me the unique opportunity to work with people of all ages, backgrounds, and situations.

I am a Harvard-trained psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families affected by depression, anxiety, trauma, loss, and life's challenges. My treatment approach is collaborative, interactive, holistic (examining all factors that affect your functioning), and strength-based (identifying your strengths). I focus on symptom reduction and skills-building to optimize your quality of life. I will work with you to tailor a treatment plan that meets your specific needs and goals. I am bilingual in Vietnamese. My office is located in Midtown and is half a block from the light rail.

Learn how to feel more connected to yourself, others and the world around you. Therapy provides all the elements of intimacy: honest communication, vulnerability and trust. Good therapy is challenging yet warm, providing both structure and empathy for your unique experience. We are a collective of therapists with a wide range of specialties. Our intake professionals will help connect you with the right therapist for your needs. We make appointments easy, offering evenings and weekends and flexibility for creative professionals who can't make the same time each week.

On the surface, the world sees you as the one who ‘always has it together’ - but on the inside, you’re starting to feel like you’re falling apart. You feel like you're working overtime to push down those uncomfortable feelings (you know, the ones that have always been lurking in the background) - except no matter how hard you try, you’re finding yourself more anxious, ungrounded, and on edge than ever before. You want your body to feel more at ease. You want to feel more connected (to yourself, to others). You want to see (and trust) what others see. But, you’re just not sure how.

As a therapist and trainer/consultant for over 30 years, I’ve come to appreciate the power of stories - both individual and collective. Who am I? How do I build and sustain relationships that matter? How do I express what is making it hard to find my place in the world and express who I really am? These are questions that we all struggle with. Therapy offers a support for exploring these questions ad discovering our own answers. I am a Certified Relational Gestalt Therapist with training in Jungian, Object Relations and Family Systems. I look forward to the possibility of getting to know you.

Are you looking for a positive change and feel like your current path is no longer serving you? Are you numbing your emotions by engaging in uhealthy relationships with people, substances, food, shopping, gambling, screen time, etc? Then, I am grateful that our paths have crossed. Together, we can work towards attainment of greater balance and fulfillment through the healing of your whole self. You will find my approach to be facilitative rather than coercive and see that I aim to reinforce positive change in your life, no matter how small or incremental that change may be.

Evening appointments available - You move through life feeling misunderstood or that you “don’t belong.” You feel this need to people please, to mask, or maybe even be “perfect” in order to be accepted (even though deep down you know you might be shrinking yourself). You try one thing and then another but nothing’s really working (or if it is, it never really feels good enough). You hold an innate desire to be yourself and to be accepted and loved for who you are. You long to create deep connections with others who celebrate your soul but you aren’t quite sure where to begin or how to get there.

My practice is grounded in the belief that we all have a deep desire and fundamental need to connect — with ourselves and with others. My practice melds: my collaborative approach + affirming, nonjudgmental, humorous and directive style + lived experiences as a West Indian, first-gen, queer, womxn + a trauma/somatic/relational focus and Afrocentric perspectives to curate a transformative process that allows you and/or your partners to experience: connection—healing—liberation.

I work with a variety of clients including women, parents, families, adolescence/teens, college students, working professionals, and LGBTQ communities.

My training would be defined as "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy" but I engage in general therapy. This means that I will work with my clients to meet them where they are and use tools, interventions and approaches that respect their person and strives to align with who they are. I am here for the client and make it a point to engage on a humanistic level. I am not a therapist who sits in a chair and asks "how does that make you feel?" I am a therapist who wants to actively help you identify your goal(s) and come up with a plan for you to reach them. I will not waste your time and I am invested as much as you are.

Are you in the process of becoming who you truly want to be? Do you want to know yourself better, and reach deep acceptance of your unique needs, feelings, and experiences? Do you want to be seen and understood by others in a way that makes you proud to be you? Would you like to learn creative and compassionate ways of communicating with yourself and others, including some of the more challenging people in your life? Are old messages and hurts getting in the way? Do you want the freedom that comes from telling your story, leaving behind what doesn't serve you, and deciding on the next chapter?

Our mission is to provide quality online mental health and substance abuse services while breaking down the barriers of traditional, office based therapy. Traditional mental health and substance abuse treatment tends to focus on what makes you sick, what you are lacking but at The Mindful Lemon, our clinicians let you sit in the driver’s seat, focusing on your strengths and assets to help you become the best version of you! This can be via traditional talk therapy, medication management, mindfulness techniques, an emphasis on health, wellness and fitness or any combination of the above.