I'm Jessica. I'm a Psychotherapist and Registered Social Worker. For over 25 years, I've worked with people in the middle of hard things: trauma, eating disorders, anxiety, grief, and the quieter pain of feeling unheard. Over the last several years, my work has narrowed into a population I keep coming back to: women in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause whose mental, emotional, and sexual health has been brushed off.

It's not a small group. And it's badly under-served.

My credentials reflect where this work has taken me:

• Psychotherapist, M.S.W., Registered Social Worker (RSW)

• Certified Sex Therapist

• EMDR Clinician

• Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist

• Board Certified in Eating Disorders

• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

• Equine-Assisted Therapy

• ADHD-Certified Clinical Provider

• Doctoral Candidate, Yorkville University. Research focus: nature-based mindful movement for mood disorders in perimenopause and menopause.

I list these because choosing a therapist is a decision you should be able to make with full information. They only matter insofar as they help you.

Here's how I actually use them.

Old trauma often resurfaces during the menopause transition, for biological reasons most women aren't told about. When that happens, EMDR is what I reach for. It works directly on the parts of the brain most affected by hormonal change.

When sexual changes show up, that's sex therapy. Desire, intimacy, body image, the question of who you are as a sexual person now. Most women in this transition aren't offered this kind of support, though it's where some of the deepest disruption happens.

When mood and anxiety spiral, DBT gives you tools that work in real time. MBSR and MBCT help you reconnect with a body that may feel like it's betraying you.

Eating patterns often return or emerge in midlife. They're rarely just about food. That's where my eating disorder training comes in.

For clients whose healing benefits from work outside the traditional therapy room, I offer equine-assisted and nature-based approaches. This is also where my doctoral research lives. It investigates how mindful movement in natural settings can support women whose mood disorders haven't responded to standard treatment.

The work I do isn't a single modality. It's whichever combination fits what you're actually navigating.

If you've been told you're too sensitive, too anxious, too much, that you're imagining things, or just getting older — and you knew something else was going on — I'd be glad to meet you.

In-person in Toronto and Stouffville. Virtual across Ontario.