Welcome

I'm Jessica Theroux, AMFT, and I do psychotherapy with women and children navigating life’s challenges and transitions. My approach integrates evidence-based therapies with body-based awareness practices to help my clients feel more grounded, resilient, and free.

About me

I hold a BA from Brown University and an MA in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). I have been supporting women and listening to their deepest life stories for 20 years. 

After graduating from Brown, I received a grant to travel throughout Italy recording the wisdom and food traditions of grandmothers, which became my award-winning book Cooking with Italian Grandmothers. The experience of listening to the life stories of female elders instilled in me a passion for supporting women across the lifespan and an understanding that healing almost always includes the mind, body, and one’s connection with themself and others. 

Over the past 15 years, I have studied and worked using a number of body-oriented modalities, including: postpartum doula work, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, pre- and perinatal trauma psychology, holistic nutrition and cooking, and Somatic Experiencing (a form of trauma therapy) bodywork. While I do not use touch in my work as a therapist, my understanding of the body—particularly the nervous system and trauma—is woven into how I practice.

I work primarily with women navigating challenges that live in the body: trauma, chronic pain and illness, postpartum struggles, and life transitions (relationships, parenting, divorce, elderhood). I also work with children and adults going through health and medical challenges.

My approach is attuned, clear, and pragmatic. I'm warm, direct, radically open-minded, and have a knack for managing complexity. I welcome and am able to hold all the different parts of my clients. Change is within reach.