Jessica (she/her) is an integrative relational psychotherapist who focuses on creating a warm, safe, affirming space for exploration and growth.
She supports clients experiencing anxiety, depression, grief and loss, difficult life changes, navigating complex family dynamics, chronic illness, exploring gender and/or sexuality, neurodiversity, and clients who want to unpack and process trauma that may be affecting everyday life and relationships or how they see or experience themselves.
Jessica sees therapy as a collaborative process where client and therapist work together to grow a deeper whole-person, emotional and cognitive understanding of clients’ lives, relational patterns and inner world, finding new paths for thinking and feeling about the past and present. This can help with self-acceptance, self-worth, growth and healing. She centres her clients’ experiences and expertise in their own lives; creating a warm, accepting environment for exploration.
Practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy with a relational focus, Jessica takes an integrative approach, drawing from relational, humanistic and psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment theory, trauma theory, and parts work to tailor support for each client.
Having grown up in Kenya and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand as a child, Jessica enjoys working with and learning from people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. She has an interest in working with people who have undergone significant cultural, geographical and life transitions. She is T/LGBTQIA+ friendly in her practice.
Jessica has a BSc from the University of Auckland, a Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies at AUT, and completed her Master of Psychotherapy Studies at AUT in 2025 (final dissertation mark pending). She has prior experience as a phone and online chat counsellor for a children’s mental health organisation, has worked with adult clients in prison and community settings, and at Anxiety NZ for several years during her psychotherapy training. She is a PBANZ registered Psychotherapist and a member of the Aotearoa New Zealand Psychotherapists Association (APANZ).
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