In constant fight or flight? Maybe you’ve tried to navigate the mental healthcare system before but felt discouraged by providers not honoring your lived experience. Welcome! My name is Jalyssa (they/them/ella) and I am an indigenous/latine, queer, neurodivergent, and nonbinary practitioner who uses multicultural counseling methods to serve those with intersectional identities, family/relational conflicts, complex trauma, gender dysphoria, and co-occurring disorders. I offer a space where you are the expert of your own lived experience. Together, we will collaborate in ways which can help you not just survive, but live fully and authentically.

I bring an anti-oppressive, strengths-based lens to treatment that helps empower clients to express their unique needs. I take a person-centered approach to treatment planning and incorporate tools from DBT, CBT, TF-CBT, ACT and art therapy. In my prior work, I had the privilege of supporting at risk, moderate to high support needs adolescents and their families as well as empowering gender expansive clients of all ages. My caseload niche often reflects folks who feel like they live in between cultures such as QTBIPOC, Xenogender, questioning, and AudHD identities. I take special interest supporting clients with mood and depressive disorders, anger/behavioral management, and trauma presentations. While I have a therapeutic niche, I am comfortable with adults of all identities.

As a provider, I seek to offer a decolonized space. Disrupting the power imbalance between client and therapist is a key part of this goal. I understand the courage it takes to seek help and the barriers to therapy that exist for many. Each person reading this has navigated their own battles before even entering the therapeutic space – all of which will be honored through our time together. It is my goal to help you feel safe, supported, and empowered as you acquire new coping strategies and perspectives.