Jessica Raistrick, LCSW
PSYCHOTHERAPY
As a licensed clinician for more than 20 years, Jessica Raistrick, LCSW, formerly Jessica Adams, shares that her inspiration comes from the adolescents and adults she treats who overcome the struggles of addiction, eating disorders, and family conflict. Effective change happens when the underlying problems are addressed in ways that are individualized and creative. The safe space Jessica offers in therapy allows her clients to explore their feelings, their choices, and challenge their patterns of behavior. Jess works extensively with teens, parents, families, and couples. Her work provides guidance and support services to ensure all members of a system are heard, empowered, and supported. Going through adolescent behavioral issues, eating disorders, divorce, can all be challenging. Jessica guides individuals and families through effective communication skills and healthy boundaries toward positive, harmonious relationships. The unique way she helps parents is to teach them how to listen effectively and ensure they are able to parent and co-parent in a compassionate and caring way. Getting along after divorce to parent as a unit is a difficult task, often one that requires additional support to navigate this new way of living.
Jessica strives to assist you in learning the skills and tools necessary to effectively work through anxieties and fears of making changes in different areas of life. This is about learning not only to cope, but to thrive. Jessica’s approach is grounded in empathy, awareness, and connection. She feels it is her obligation to educate, inform, and empower clients to live their best possible lives. Hence, this is done by sharing the practices and tools that allow individuals to manage anxiety and stress to face fears and achieve their dreams. Furthermore, her style of direct feedback, in a compassionate manner, helps individuals gain insight to envision and enact new modes of behavior.
Jessica is also a certified Reiki Master. Reiki is a form of nuanced non-invasive energy healing that honors the power each individual has to heal themselves while addressing where energy can stagnate or where perhaps one has suffered physical injury or emotional pain. In time, these areas or energy blocks can cause dis-ease or ill health. The practice of Reiki can create a healing space for the integration of other modalities, especially talk therapy, trauma processing, holistic health integration, and overall wellness.. In addition, Reiki can help with relaxation, support overall healing, and reduce other symptoms of potential illness.
SPECIALTIES: positive modeling, eating disorders, substance use and abuse, anxiety, grief, stress management, young adult counseling, motivational interviewing, co-parenting, parent coaching, navigating divorce, major life transitions.
Not ready for therapy...check out Jessica's book "The Gut Check: How to Reconnect with Your Intuition" on Amazon to help you start your journey at a fraction of the cost.
She has also authored "Mom to Mom... Stages of Motherhood Revealed" which is an informative and insightful workbook for mothers of all stages in their journey. This can be found at Walmart.com, Barnes and Nobles and Amazon for purchase.
