Therapists Beginning With J in Vermont

I specialize in helping people overcome complex and “difficult-to-treat” problems. Clients often come to therapy feeling "stuck" and wanting more freedom in their choices. I work with clients to help identify and bring light to the strategies that we often use to avoid our feelings and keep us locked in patterns we want to shift.

Welcome! I am Shelley Jackson and am looking forward to meeting you. I have over 20 years counseling experience working with children and adults. I believe in the inherent good in all people and want to help you live a life worth living. I treat my clients, whether adults or children, with deep respect and offer you a safe place in which to process your problems. I offer you my unconditional positive regard and genuineness as a person. I believe our relationship is the most important part of counseling and to that end I bring 100% of myself into our sessions.

I offer healing arts, psychotherapy and education for people who wish to live "the well examined life" and make the most of life's sojourns . I am a holistic counselor and adjunct professor of psychology, media and communications over the past 15 years. I earned my Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from Norwich University in 1993, following studies in the Classics and a B.A in Transpersonal Psychology. I provide support, encouragement, and the benefit of my closest attention to those seeking to develop greater awareness, deeper insight, and fuller capacity to love life and all that it brings.

I really appreciate clients who are willing to look at themselves and are brave enough to ask for help. Asking for help shows a desire to understand themselves on a deeper more spiritual level. I work with people going through transitions in life ages 4-94. It doesn't matter the age, it is the heart behind the age that counts. I work with individuals, family, couples, and those working on addictions issues that are facing crossroads in their life. Therapy gives hope and renewed vision and allows support to those facing the fear of change.

It would be my honor to guide you to create a more meaningful life, on your terms. I bring an inherent curiosity and empathy to my work. I listen with a fully engaged approach. My clinical background includes several years of working with clients with various medical issues. I also have significant experience in issues related to trauma and substance use disorders. In addition, I have extensive experience with loss and grief from years of working in medical Hospice programs.

Challenging relationship? Feeling stuck? Struggling to set a boundary? Our goals, successes, and happiness are often guided and, occasionally hindered, by the situations we find ourselves in. Traumatic events, interpersonal struggles, and difficult environments can make it challenging to walk our own path and to reach our potential. In these times of hardship it is important to find our own direction and to develop safety and a strong sense of self, and will this strength we can make plans for positive change in your life.

I am a clinical social worker with an office, easily accessible, in Lebanon, NH. My work is informed by a client centered, strength-based perspective with a trauma focused foundation. My specialty is working with individuals to help them learn to navigate their own internal world and to realize how that can impact their relationships in various areas such as home, school and work.

Offering individual and couples therapy sessions in Massachusetts and Vermont. Freud believed that the goal of psychoanalysis is to free a person to love and to work. Similarly, I see therapy as a process of liberation that frees one to love and contribute to the world. The liberation of one person, sparks liberation in the rest of the world too. I believe that each of us has a unique contribution to make in the world. I see therapy as a process of freeing people to love and contribute. By liberating ourselves, we liberate others.

As a relationship/trauma coach, I work with adults. I have found that getting healthy and happy takes work but is simple. I work with clients that are ready to feel better and have better relationships. I help you build a foundation with skills and knowledge so you can move forward toward your personal goals with more ease, grace, and self-love.

I’m a firm believer that everybody has the internal resources to live an authentic and fulfilling life. Sometimes, we have experiences that makes it challenging to access those resources, or our coping strategies that once worked well are no longer serving their purpose. My goal is to create a therapeutic space that is non-judgmental and safe, ultimately helping clients find insight into their lives.

I work closely and collaboratively with individuals and couples to move them beyond old, repetitive and unhappy patterns that hinder growth and freedom. Change happens in a deeply personal way, and never without trepidation. Effective therapy is a mutual undertaking in which fears, anxieties and deeply held beliefs are discovered and shifted. Depressive feelings, anxiety, unhappy work or personal relationships are often the result of unknown roadblocks we erect to protect us at a cost. Therapy provides a private and safe venue for discovering the reasons why life can feel flat, meaningless or frightening and can be the catalyst for profound movement and growth.

NOW accepting clients from across Vermont into my practice. I'm Melanie (she/her). Please reach out if you’d like to work with me! People enter into the therapeutic relationship for all different reasons. I sure have. Maybe this is your first time exploring the idea of therapy or you are returning to therapy after a time away or you are just wanting to change things up a bit. I love hearing people’s stories and am comfortable sitting with someone through the difficult parts of them. Having worked in human services for over a decade, I have found carrying a presence with what people share truly an honor. I am so glad you are here!

I have been a psychotherapist for over 35 years with individuals and couples. I consider myself a spiritual psychologist and a relationship counselor. I use a synthesis of body-mind, mindfulness and relational approaches. My focus is to support the person to stand in their own strength, courage and compassion. As they feel their own sense of worth then they are more able to express this in relationship, the creative arts, or work. "When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, Pain itself will crack the rock and AH! LET THE SOUL EMERGE. Rumi

I am committed to effect change through the process of psychotherapy using a direct, reality based approach. Although I draw from many different therapeutic modalities, my theoretical orientation is consistent with cognitive-behavioral theories. I believe social learning, modeling, and reinforcement all play a significant role in how ones personality developes, how one thinks, behaves, & feels as they get older. I believe refuting negative and irrational thinking will likely increase healthy feelings and behaviors that will greatly impact ones overall wellbeing. I believe that effective communication is the key to building healthy relationships, rebuilding severed relationships, & strengthening present ones.

Having trouble finding a therapist? I offer e-courses to get professional guidance into your hands immediately. Develop new skills and perspectives, and start feeling like yourself again. Access through my website. Professional Development and Supervision: I provide clinical supervision to pre-licensed clinicians with the option to bill through my license, and consultation services for psychotherapists, medical providers, businesses and organizations, school personnel, and other professionals. If you would like to be added to a mailing list for updates about clinical trainings available for CEUs, feel free to send me a message.

We all need a tune-up at certain times in our life. Our work together, tailored to each individual, offers the opportunity to help you to take charge of your thoughts, feelings and behaviors along with raising self-esteem, nurturing oneself in healthy, positive ways, releasing your emotional pain and assertively taking care of yourself with others. Childhood issues often create unidentified patterns that work silently in the background to sabotage you accomplishing your goals in life. I work interactively from a Mindfulness based approach as well as Cognitive-Behavioral, Family Systems and Psychodynamic Therapies.

I specialize in working with individuals who are struggling with sudden change or ongoing conflict in their lives. I strive to provide a safe and supportive environment where my clients examine the big questions at a pace that works for them.