JESSICA MCCALL, LMFT-S, CSAT-S, CPTT-S

The pain and conflict you experience on repeat hold important information…they’re there to show you what you still need to heal.

Jessica’s Approach

I help individuals and couples work through emotional wounds and destructive coping strategies. I provide nurturance, structure, guidance, and accountability, then I teach you how to provide these for yourself and accept them from safe people. We’ll unpack your internal world, untangle complicated relationships, and access more options for getting your needs met. You’ll gain the clarity, confidence, and compassion to heal your woundedness, release your self-protective (possibly self-sabotaging) coping mechanisms, and show up for yourself and those you love in a new, healthy way.

If you:

  • Feel terrified of intimacy, or desperately starve for it

  • Long to be loved, but struggle getting your connection needs met

  • Question your reality, doubt your intuition, and feel anxious most of the time

  • Are sick of your old patterns and really ready to shake things up

I’ll help you:

  • Come home to yourself, trust yourself, and like yourself

  • Set self-honoring limits with yourself and others

  • Develop intimacy skills so you can get your needs met in a way that is effective and aligned with the person you want to be

  • Step into empowerment… I won’t let you blame others or stay stuck in victimhood

More About Jessica

The way I see it, we all have some messy stuff to work through and we should all probably be “in recovery” for something. You are not broken or inadequate or unloveable. Your problems probably formed because you never learned how to connect, you don’t feel permission to be authentic, or you never learned how to get your needs met. My passion and purpose is helping others who did not learn these things as children to master them as adults. I fell into my clinical specialty by accident and it quickly opened the door to my own profound healing. Therapy can be hard and looking in the scary closet is vulnerable (I would know), but it can also lead you to feel more security, connection and empowerment than you’ve ever known could exist in your lifetime!

 

Favorite Resources From My Own Journey

  • You Are The One You’ve Been Waiting For by Richard Schwartz

  • IFS, EMDR, and experiential therapies

  • Intimacy Bootcamp (peep our Programs page)

  • The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut (type 2!)

Fun Facts

  • The Haven “visionary” and creative ideas person

  • “Yes girl”… when I’m invited to travel across the world, fly a plane or jump off a cliff, I go

  • Die hard Cincinnati Bengals fan (Who Dey!)

  • My colleagues and clients describe me as empowering, supportive, and knowledgable

Jessica’s Groups

Women’s Connection and Growth Group

Tuesdays | 5:30pm-7:00pm

Women’s Intimacy Bootcamp is a prerequisite for this group.

Men’s Connection and Growth Group

Wednesdays | 5:30pm-7:00pm

Men’s Intimacy Bootcamp is a prerequisite for this group.

Credentials + Training

Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, East Carolina University

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor (LMFT-S)

Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Supervisor (CSAT-S)

Certified Partner Trauma Therapist Supervisor (CPTT-S)

Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) trained

Internal Family Systems (IFS) trained

Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) trained

Discernment Counseling trained

Dare to Lead trained

Blogs by Jessica

Sobriety Versus Recovery: What is the difference?

Sobriety is about avoiding harmful coping strategies, while recovery is about healing so you don’t need them.

5 Steps to Setting Healthy Boundaries

Setting boundaries in relationships can be uncomfortable, but incredibly rewarding. Follow these five steps to establish healthy boundaries.

15 Types of Intimate Betrayal

There are many types of betrayal, each with nuanced motivations, behaviors, and underlying issues.