jessamyn wesley (she/her)

Feminist

The personal, political, structural realities call us to explore distributions of power in our lives, and cast a wider frame of context and historicity to comprehend ourselves. Humility fortifies my capacity to grow as a therapist, as I resist pathologizing deviance and difference, challenge binaries, purity, certainty, hierarchies, and dichotomies.

Political Climate

Processing the immense emotional and psychological consequences of the political environment and climate realities can be a vital part of determining a course forward that is courageous and sustainable. Expanding the capacity to tolerate and cope with fear and uncertainty, developing clarity and locating ways to contribute to change, can transform fear into courage and collective action.

LGBTQ Issues

Gender and sexuality are socially located, historically contextual, deeply complex, and personally specific experiences. Aspects of gender and sexuality may be peripheral, central, or fluctuating in the focus of our therapeutic work. I draw from extensive professional and personal experiences within LGBTQ+ communities, always cognizant of the parameters of my understandings, emphasizing the distinct ways each person inhabits gender and sexuality.

Eating Disorder

How we relate to appetite and hunger, food and eating, taste and nourishment are bound up with socio-political and cultural conditions and realities. Bodies are at once visceral and symbolic. Food is sustenance, laden with meaning and memory. I approach experiences and struggles in relationships to food and eating and body image by interweaving analysis of the social and political dimensions, and attention to coordinating with outside medical and nutritional support.