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Jessica (she/her) is registered as a psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Kent State University and her pre-doctoral residency in Salt Lake City, Utah. She then completed a post-doctoral program in DBT with the Utah Centre for Evidence Based Practice in Salt Lake City, Utah, working with adolescents, young adults and adults. Subsequently she founded and ran two DBT programs, one in Salt Lake City and one in Mississauga, Ontario.
Jessica uses a compassionate and anti-oppressive lens to engage in evidence- based treatments, including DBT, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), prolonged exposure (PE), and cognitive processing therapy (CPT) for trauma She also works with parents, using tools from DBT, behavioural parenting and emotion-focused parenting, as needed. Jessica believes strongly in everyone’s ability to develop their life worth living and works individually with each client to find their way there.
She is passionate about living her own life worth living and does so by spending quality time with her child, dog, friends and family. She also loves to read, hike, write poetry and paint while sometimes dreaming of the mountains of Utah.
Jessica sees clients virtually as well in in person at our downtown Toronto location as well as in Oakville.
