Tessa works in collaboration with her clients to explore the ways life has become unmanageable and learn how to utilize their strengths to untangle that web. her personal therapy style combines solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing-EMDR. She has been working as a mental health professional since 2013 and am a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC#6250) in the state of California. She has spent 7+ years working in the non-profit sector, first with child survivors of human sex trafficking and then with families of youth that are at-risk for entering the juvenile justice system. Through these experiences, she had the privilege of working with many young mothers as they navigated the peripartum experience with limited resources. She continued her work as a clinical supervisor in the public sector and as a faculty member at Point Loma Nazarene University to teach and support students as they enter the mental health field. In her current clinical practice, she specializes in treating perinatal individuals and their partners, with an emphasis on first time parents, parents with a history of personal or family addiction, and couples experiencing difficulty with communication during the transitions of parenthood