About Jessica

A decade of doing this, now open as a practice.

For about ten years I have been the person people call. Friends, friends of friends, people from work, people who got my number from someone else. Not because I advertised it. Because it kept happening, and because it kept helping.

At some point it stopped being an accident. I started noticing what worked, writing down the things that came up again and again, and building actual practices out of them. That is the part that took a decade. The website is new. The work is not.

Where the training comes from

I studied psychology. I did forty eight weeks of field training working directly with autistic children, and a field-work case study where I gathered and analysed real behavioural data on how behaviour and environment connect. I have worked at a rehabilitation centre with adults in addiction, which is a very different kind of room and taught me a very different set of things.

That background matters for one specific reason, and it is not the credential. It is that I learned to watch for patterns properly, in a setting where you had to write down what actually happened rather than what you assumed happened. The practices I use came out of that. One of them is literally a behavioural technique turned inward.

What I am not

I am not a licensed mental health professional. I do not diagnose, I do not treat mental illness, and coaching is not health care. I am careful about this because the line matters and because the people who blur it tend to hurt somebody eventually. Here is the full boundary, in plain language.

How I work with people

Mostly I listen, and I ask the question that is actually underneath the one you asked. People have a tendency, once they get talking, to arrive somewhere on their own. My job is to make that possible and then to stay out of the way of it.

I am not going to tell you what to do with your marriage, your money, your parents or your career. I do not know. You do, more than you think. What I can do is help you find it, name it, and see the pattern it sits inside.

I do not have to know the answers to help you find them, because they are already in you.Jessica

Practical things

• Phone and video, anywhere in the US. No office to drive to.
• $125 an hour, $75 for a half hour. Full pricing.
• The first call is free and runs about 15 to 20 minutes.
• I keep almost no written records, on purpose. Here is why.

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