Jessica has experience supporting clients with:

• Anxiety and excessive worry
• Depression and low mood
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Trauma and difficult life experiences
• Grief and loss
• Anger and emotional regulation
• Relationship difficulties
• Self-esteem
• Major life transitions
• Learning difficulties
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Tourette’s syndrome
• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
• Bipolar disorder
• Dual diagnoses and overlapping mental health concerns

Jessica draws from training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), behaviour therapy, trauma-focused therapy, grief and loss, and group therapy.

Her breadth of experience allows her to look beyond a single symptom or diagnosis and consider how different pieces of a person’s experience may be interacting.

Therapy may involve developing strategies to manage intense emotions, changing patterns of thinking or behaviour that are no longer helpful, processing difficult experiences, navigating relationships, or adjusting to significant changes in life.

Jessica adapts the work to the needs of the individual, balancing insight, practical skill-building, and emotional support.

Jessica knows that life—and mental health—can be complicated.

She doesn’t expect clients to fit neatly into a diagnostic category or arrive knowing which part of their experience needs attention first. Instead, she takes time to understand the whole picture: what you’re struggling with, what you’ve lived through, how you tend to cope, what is happening around you, and what you would like to be different.

Her style is authentic, empathetic, insightful, and nonjudgmental. There is room to talk openly about difficult emotions, behaviours, relationships, diagnoses, or experiences without reducing you to any one of them.

Jessica also brings substantial experience supporting people whose needs may involve several layers at once. That perspective allows therapy to remain flexible: sometimes the work calls for concrete skills and strategies; sometimes it calls for understanding, processing, and simply having somewhere safe to begin untangling what’s happening.

The goal is not to fit you into a box. It’s to understand you well enough to determine what support will actually be useful.

Jessica provides individual psychotherapy and has extensive experience working with people with diverse and complex needs, including individuals with dual diagnoses, learning difficulties, neurodevelopmental differences, and significant mental health concerns.

She may be particularly well suited to clients who have felt that their concerns overlap, don’t fit neatly into one category, or require a therapist who is comfortable looking at several parts of the picture at once.

In-Person Therapy — Barrie, Ontario
Virtual Therapy — Available across Ontario
Availability — Limited weekday virtual appointments and select Saturday appointments

Jessica holds a Master’s degree and is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

She has worked in the field of psychology since 2007, with professional experience spanning psychotherapy, risk prevention and management, teaching, and training. In addition to private practice, Jessica works within the non-profit sector.

Jessica has completed additional training in grief and loss, DBT, group therapy, behaviour therapy, CBT, and trauma-focused therapy and brings more than 10 years of experience supporting individuals with dual diagnoses, learning difficulties, and complex mental health and neurodevelopmental presentations.

At Lakeview Psychology, Jessica practices under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Guthrie, C.Psych.