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Meet jess
Jess Morrow, MA, RP
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Jess Morrow is a Registered Psychotherapist working with teens and adults. She obtained her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and previously worked in the social work field in shelters for women and children fleeing domestic violence, hospitals, and non-profit organizations.
Jess works to help individuals increase their self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-trust, for a deeper understanding of themselves, their strengths, and resiliency. Past clients have commented on her warmth, insight, and empathy, and how these qualities helped enhance their introspection of their feelings, experiences, and patterns in a safe and supportive environment. Therapy can be empowering, challenging, informative, fun, and emotional – sometimes all in one session. - A few facts about Jess: 1) She is a bookworm and has a cat named Gatsby; 2) She loves Victorian homes – the house from Practical Magic would be her dream to live in; 3) Autumn is her favourite season, with the changing leaves and cozy weather.
- To book a session with Jess, fill out the form on our website or email her directly at jess@levitycounselling.com.
key points
Working with Jess
Here are some things to know about working with Jess:
- Jess’ therapeutic style is person-centered, conversational, and collaborative. Thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and patterns are explored and identified in-session and at times practicing strategies and brainstorming occurs for in-between session plans to support the client’s goal(s).
- Jess does not typically use therapy worksheets in session, but she does provide psychoeducation (which is therapy speak for information) to help individuals to understand why their brains and bodies may be responding the way they are to help normalize and deepen their understanding of themselves. Psychoeducation is part of the conversational aspect and is individualized to you, so it will not feel like you’re in a stuffy lecture hall, but rather on a nice comfy couch with warm lighting and a cup of tea talking it through.
- Jess supports her clients while figuring out with them what works best for them and takes into account their personality, interests, therapy goals, and learning style to create personalized coping strategies and to assess with the client whether they may benefit from a slightly more structured approach or if they prefer less structure and more conversational; sometimes the preference may even shift session-to-session depending on the need or want that day.
- Therapy homework is not always assigned, but is always a collaborative process that is decided on as a team (there are no grades or tests — promise). Therapy homework is a way to keep therapy momentum going between sessions and may look like engaging in self-care, mindfulness of emotions and/or patterns, reflection, or practicing strategies reviewed in session.
- Jess uses an integrative therapy approach including: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), and Compassion-Focused Therapy. Jess works with a variety of presenting issues with specialized focus on: relationship issues, family dynamics, people-pleasing, anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, and trauma.
- Jess’ session rate is $160.
populations and trainings
Jess works with...
- Family dynamics
- Relationships
- Developmental and attachment trauma
- Anxiety
- People-pleasers and perfectionists
- Burnout
Jess has trained in...
Jess has recently trained in the following (note: this is not an exhaustive list; who really wants to see that?):
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety and Depression with Russ Harris
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Perfectionism and People Pleasing with Russ Harris
- Becoming a Neurodivergent-Informed Clinician with B Lourenco
- Emotionally Focused Therapy with Dr. Sue Johnson
- Trained in Gottman Level One
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