Jessica Van Berkum (she/her)

I have worked with a variety of areas of family conflict. My experience includes parenting assessments, supervised visitations, marriage/couples/decoupling, co-parenting, family of origin issues. I have specific training in reunification and complex family systems.

I love helping people of all ages work through life transitions and the stress that come with cultural, family, or individual expectations.

I believe co-parenting is essential in family work, particularly for the children. The better co-parenting can be, the healthier impact on the child as well as the family as a whole.

Working with families as the client is very rewarding as it can repair and build relationships in a way that individual therapy cannot. When each person in the family system participates in therapy, an understanding can happen as well as insight into each individual's part in the system itself. It is powerful and when done is very beneficial to the family and individual.

Family systems is a part of all of us, no matter what our family structure looks like. It includes our family of origin and our family of choice. All of the people in an individual's life impacts that personn and their mental health.

Our relationships all impact us. All of them. I'm open to working with relationships of all kinds, family, couples, siblings, open/non-monogamy, any thing!