Jessica Marotte ASW131965

help people work through PTSD and complex trauma, including religious trauma from evangelical and Protestant churches, spiritual abuse, and growing up too fast. We go deeper than coping skills. Using parts work (IFS), attachment-informed therapy, and DBT skills, we'll make sense of your patterns, grieve what you missed, and build a safer relationship with yourself. You can say the hard stuff here, including grief and suicidal thoughts, and all your parts are welcome.

I'm a queer therapist who is affirming of all genders, orientations, and relationship structures, including ethical non-monogamy and polycules. I write gender-affirming care letters and support you in exploring identity, relationships, chosen family, and family-assigned-at-birth dynamics. Whether you're coming out, deconstructing religion, or figuring out who you are, you won't have to educate me. I'm anti-racist, sex-positive, and pro-body autonomy.

I'm neurodivergent myself, so I get the ten-sided tangents, the 47 open tabs, and the shame of being told you're not trying hard enough. I work with ADHD, autistic, and dyslexic teens and adults, including late-identified folks and burnt-out former gifted kids. Sessions fit your brain: fidgets, sand tray, art, movement, no forced eye contact. We'll focus on practical systems, self-compassion, and understanding your emotions, not just productivity hacks.

help people work through PTSD and complex trauma, including religious trauma from evangelical and Protestant churches, spiritual abuse, and growing up too fast. We go deeper than coping skills. Using parts work (IFS), attachment-informed therapy, and DBT skills, we'll make sense of your patterns, grieve what you missed, and build a safer relationship with yourself. You can say the hard stuff here, including grief and suicidal thoughts, and all your parts are welcome.

Narrative therapy starts from the idea that you are not the problem; the problem is the problem. We look at the stories you were handed, like "the difficult one," "the gifted kid," or "the helpless one," and ask who wrote them and whether they fit. Together we separate you from labels, notice the moments you resisted, and write a fuller story that honors your identity, culture, and values. It's a great fit for queer, trans, and neurodivergent folks.

I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help you get to know the parts of you: the inner critic, the people-pleaser, the kid who had to grow up too fast, the part still afraid of getting it wrong. Instead of fighting them, we get curious, and they can finally loosen their grip. It's especially helpful for religious trauma, complex trauma, and intellectualizers who live in their heads. All your parts are welcome here, even the ones you wish would go away.

Existential therapy makes room for the big questions: What is the point? Who am I without my faith, my achievements, or the role I was given? Who do I want to become? If you've left a belief system, hit burnout, or wondered whether life is worth it, these questions aren't symptoms to fix. We'll explore meaning, freedom, choice, and mortality together, so you can build values that are truly yours, not inherited. I'm not afraid of the dark questions.