Jessica Wansart, LCSW-S

Jessica is a licensed clinical social worker with over 10 years of experience working in non-profit, community mental health, and integrative medical and behavioral health settings. Jessica is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and uses somatic and other experiential modalities to offer a different kind of therapy experience. She specializes in supporting people struggling with the lingering impacts of trauma, difficult early experiences, perfectionism, negative self-talk, stress management, and life transitions. Additionally, she works with folks wanting to explore and better understand different aspects of their identity, lived experience, and/or their inner world.

Jessica’s work is rooted in the knowledge that insight alone is not enough to support the healing and shifting of old, deep patterns. She is often a particularly good fit for folks who may be hesitant about therapy or who have tried traditional therapy models and want help shifting things on a deeper level than past talk therapy has allowed. Jessica helps clients pause and get curious about what is held more deeply on an emotional, body-based, and implicit level – in the places that live beyond words. She balances creating enough safety to access patterns of the past, while staying rooted in the present in a way that opens the door for lasting change.

Jessica’s approach is warm, collaborative, curious and creative. While she believes in the power of the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for healing and transformation, she does not take safety or trust for granted, but rather works to build them over time and at each client’s own pace.