Jessica Fletcher (she/her)

I am a certified clinical trauma specialist and adjunct faculty member at the Arizona Trauma Institute. I am the board chair for an international clinical trauma advisory board for Arizona Trauma Institute as well -- overseeing curriculum review with therapists across the world (Iran, Pakistan, India, Peru, Philippines, China, Singapore). I am also certified in the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method and am a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.

I received training via a grant with Phoenix Children's Hospital & Mercy Care under specialists in gender identity in my community -- learning from both the behavioral health perspective and endocrinology perspective. I am a current and full member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

I use a family systems psychodynamic lens with therapy to explore and contextualize attachment patterns. Much of my work is relationally focused -- educating clients on the neuroscience underpinning attachment styles and differing relational skills to foster a secure attachment to themselves and others.

I use an attachment lens to explore how early family experiences (and other immediate cultural systems such as school, community, work) impact a person's sense of self and relational style. I also incorporate Virginia Satir's family systems perspective into counseling families and couples. I also pull from teachings from The Gottmans and Esther Perel.

I use modern psychodynamic approach to consider unconscious patterns impacting behaviors -- and then support clients in taking what has been automatic (and often hard to change even with insight) and applying small actions for sustainable and lasting change. A key component of this approach is exploring shame core beliefs that can often block change -- even if someone is aware of a pattern. This approach focuses not on a quick fix to treat symptoms, but rather a foundational overhaul.

Recognizing that talk therapy only can be so useful for body-based reactions, I am trained in a trauma-conscious yoga method approach to bringing in yoga traditions of movement, breathwork, and meditation to trauma therapy. I also have somatic therapy training from the Arizona Trauma Institute and enjoy helping people discover ways to regulate their nervous system.