That's where I come in.
I help people heal from the pain of trauma that is keeping them stuck.
Do the same struggles keep showing up, even in relationships that should feel safe?
Do you look at your life today and wonder why old pain still feels so close?
Early wounds can leave deep imprints on how we think, feel, and connect.
Blending relational healing with somatic tools and trauma-informed modalities like IFS,
I help you gently untangle these patterns, move beyond survival mode, and begin creating the life and the relationships you want.
If your past felt like death by a thousand paper cuts, if you feel lonely, broken, and stuck in Groundhog Day...
Do you find yourself fearing both closeness and abandonment, even in relationships that should feel safe?
Do you look at your life today and wonder why old pain still feels so close?
Early wounds can leave deep imprints on how we think, feel, and connect.
Blending relational healing with somatic tools and trauma-informed modalities like IFS,
I help you gently untangle these patterns and move beyond survival mode.
If your past felt like death by a thousand paper cuts, if you feel lonely, broken, and stuck in Groundhog Day...
Welcome to therapy with Jessie
You need healing that reaches the roots.
Let's get real, you don’t need surface-level tips.
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Clients REACH OUT
to Me When They
Clients
REACH OUT to Me When They
- Have a history of toxic relationships
- Struggle with chronic self-doubt or
co-dependency - Can't fully understand what they
want or need - Feel guilty setting boundaries
- Are navigating a family estrangement
- Grew up with narcissistic or emotionally immature parents
- Experienced childhood neglect or abuse
- Have a history of toxic relationships
- Struggle with chronic self-doubt or co-dependency
- Can't fully understand what they want or need
- Feel guilty setting boundaries
- Are navigating a family estrangement
- Grew up with narcissistic or emotionally immature parents
- Experienced childhood neglect or abuse
Compassion Focused
to help you finally see yourself clearly and meet yourself without judgment, shame or self-hate.
to release trauma and painful emotions held in the body, regulate your nervous system, and bring you back to a sense of inner calm and presence.
to release trauma and painful emotions held in the body and regulate your nervous system.
Sommatic Experiencing
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Re-Parenting & Inner Child Work
Re-Parenting &
Inner Child Work
Healing complex trauma isn’t about erasing the past,
it’s about changing your relationship to it.
You don’t have to keep living in survival mode.
to help you understand your internal parts
to help you understand your internal parts, those protective voices, inner critics, or hidden wounds, and begin relating to them with compassion instead of shame.
to give your younger self what you never got, unconditional love, protection and permission to have needs, so that you can build self-trust and healthier boundaries.
to give your younger self what you never got, unconditional love and protection so you can build healthier boundaries.
to experience a safe, consistent, and healing therapeutic relationship in your life where you feel genuinely supported, cared for, and no longer alone.
to experience a safe, consistent, and healing therapeutic relationship in your life where you feel supported, cared for, and no longer alone.
Relational Healing
This isn’t about talking endlessly your pain or re-traumatizing you with the worst memories of your life. Instead, we’ll actually move trauma out of the body and help you reclaim safety, connection, and choice.
I help you build something new using evidence-based approaches like:
This isn’t about talking endlessly your pain or re-traumatizing you with the worst memories of your life.
Instead, we’ll actually move trauma out of the body using evidence-based approaches like:
Why Complex Trauma Therapy
With Me Works
Here's the Difference...
After Working With Me
Clients Report:
✔ Trusting themselves again
✔ Less shame and guilt
✔ A greater sense of control over their own lives
✔ The ability to hold healthy boundaries
✔ Feeling safer in their bodies and calmer in their nervous systems
✔ More self-compassion and inner understanding
✔ Forming healthier attachments
✔ Trusting themselves again
✔ Less shame and guilt
✔ A greater sense of control over their own lives
✔ The ability to hold healthy boundaries
✔ Feeling safer in their bodies
✔ A calmer nervous systems
✔ Forming healthier attachments
✔ More self-compassion and inner understanding
You’re not too much. You’re not too broken.
I work with trauma because I get how deeply it can shape a person’s life, how early relational wounds can echo into adulthood in ways that feel impossible to shift.
But they can shift.
I’m a fellow trauma survivor, live with an autoimmune disorder, grew up an only child. I'm a newly minted member of the bereaved community (ask me about my Dad any time), animal rescuer and your friendly neighborhood Canadian!
I combine warmth and depth with genuine authenticity and care, to offer you a truly healing, relational, and collaborative therapeutic experience.
None of this is about perfection.
It’s about learning how to understand your history in a way that lets you feel free and like yourself fully,
perhaps for the first time.
Sometimes my dog helps too...
Jessie Withers MA, AMFT#155028, APCC# 19353
Supervised by Sarah Iaccarino, LMFT #128686
Jessie Withers, MA
Meet The therapist behind the TRAUMA work
- M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University Los Angeles
- IFSCA -Level 1 Stepping Stones -Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- IFSCA -Level 2 Stepping Deeper -Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- ICEEFT- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship
- EMDRIA-Approved EMDR S.A.F.E. Training for Trauma Resolution
- Somatic Experiencing International Foundations
- The Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Education, Credentials, and Trainings
Jessie Withers MA,
AMFT#155028, APCC# 19353
Supervised by Sarah Iaccarino, LMFT #128686
- M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University Los Angeles
- IFSCA -Level 1 Stepping Stones -Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- IFSCA -Level 2 Stepping Deeper -Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- ICEEFT- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship
- EMDRIA-Approved EMDR S.A.F.E. Training for Trauma Resolution
- Somatic Experiencing International Foundations
- The Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Education, Credentials, and Trainings
she/her/hers
- Mel G., Studio City CA
I had just moved to LA so I was nervous to start therapy again with someone new because I didn’t want to go through everything all over again. Jessie never pushed me.
She is very kind and the weekly sessions give me a way to understand myself and make sense of what's happened in my life. Jessie's just the best!
What Clients SAY About TRAUMA Therapy with jessie
“I feel so safe and SO supported with Jessie”
We’ll meet regularly to do the work to shift old patterns.
We will help you show up in your life more fully.
Free Consultation
We’ll have a 30-minute call to see if we’re a good fit.
You can ask questions and get a feel for how I work.
Ongoing Therapy
Contact
Me
Contact Me
Send a quick message or fill out the contact form.
No pressure to say it perfectly, just start by reaching out.
4 SIMPLE StePS to get started
The pathway to help you heal, grow, and reconnect with yourself
First
Session
First Session
This is where we start sifting through your story.
It’s collaborative and rooted in nervous system regulation.
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Answers to Your Questions
frequently asked
You don’t need a specific label or diagnosis for your pain to matter. Trauma is anything that feels 'stuck' in your system. It is any event that overwhelms you and leaves a lasting negative impact on you and your life.
This can be anything from a negative interaction with a co-worker that left you feeling embarrassed, to a sudden breakup where you were blindsided, to more intense traumatic experiences such as sexual abuse, assault or domestic violence.
There is no hierarchy of pain. If it's traumatic to you, that's enough.
I Did talk therapy before and It didn't really do much for me...Will this be different?
I Did talk therapy before and It didn't really do much for me...Will this be different?
Yes. In fact, that’s exactly why many of my clients seek out this type of IFS, and somatic work, because understanding doesn’t always lead to actual change. If you’ve done the talking and still feel caught in the same emotional loops, this kind of deeper insight work is ideal.
