Jessica's approach is rooted in the belief that a safe therapeutic relationship is the foundation of effective psychotherapy. She is equipped to address a wide range of mental health concerns; and her practice specialties broadly encompass reproductive health and its impact on emotional wellness. This involves perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), fertility, the impacts of PMS/PMDD, adoption, assisted reproductive technologies and third party reproduction, and transitions in parenthood. She has a special interest in the unique aspects of grief and loss related to fertility, family-making, and the perinatal period. Much of her practice has involved supporting people who've experienced reproductive and perinatal loss and trauma, including infertility, pregnancy complications, or stays in the NICU. Her work further involves body image, the mind-body relationship, eating disorders, and substance use.
Jessica's practice will re-open in Portland, Oregon in January of 2019.
Jessica's practice will re-open in Portland, Oregon in January of 2019.
Some details about her practice:
- individual and couples therapy
- supervision for clinicians working toward licensure or developing specialty in reproductive health.
- individual or group consultation on perinatal mental health, adoption and third party reproduction.
- emotionally focused therapy; interpersonal psychotherapy; mindfulness-based methods; parent-infant dyadic therapy; narrative methods.
- informed by trauma-informed care; emotionally focused therapy; attachment theory; feminist theories; Health at Every Size; intuitive eating; harm reduction.
- welcoming, non-judgmental, and identity-centering
Originally from Wisconsin, Jessica has lived and worked on a small island in Alaska, in New York City, Boulder, Colorado, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. Her passion for this work began in 2004 when she was a graduate student intern at a birthing center and neonatal intensive care unit within a large hospital. In addition to working in multiple hospital settings, she has practiced in community mental health, with the women's health team at a primary care clinic serving newly-arrived refugees, in a small day-hospitalization program for women and infants, and in private practice. Jessica is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University.
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When she's not working, you can find Jessica hiking, skiing, and running trails, backpacking through the West, enjoying a bike ride around town, or reading, reading more, and (sometimes) writing. She is a keeper of chickens, a swimmer of lakes and rivers, a warm lap for an old cat, a companion to her sweet dog Olive, and an admirer of llamas. She currently spends her time in Portland, Oregon and the San Francisco Bay area.
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jessmharr10[at]gmail.com
503.679.4650