Hey! I’m Jess.

I’m a neon-colour wearing, Toronto Raptors-adoring, reality television fanatic who is constantly Pinning ideas for her next tattoo while listening to an audiobook, Led Zeppelin, or anything released in the 1980s.

But you don’t care about that.

I’m willing to bet most of my farm’s value that you care about two things:

  1. Does this chick know what the hell she’s doing? and,

  2. Why do you work with RURAL, anxious, perfectionist, people-pleasing women?

I’ll answer those in order, if you please.

When I say I understand what being a rural, people-pleasing, perfectionist, anxious woman is like, I get it in a way I couldn’t without having lived that way. I’ve done a lot of my own therapy, which I’m obviously not afraid to admit, so that I could learn how to release those unachieveable expectations I’d put on myself. 

This is why I love working with women who live rurally or on farms, and who struggle with anxiety, perfectionism and people-pleasing—because man, I have BEEN THERE. But this doesn’t mean how you work through these things will look exactly how it looked for me. This is YOUR therapy experience, not mine. Will it be collaborative and supportive? Absolutely. But we go where the therapy takes you because that’s what matters.

So I would say yes, I know what I’m doing. And I’m pretty damn good at it, if I do say so myself.

Now for your second wondering.

I do my best work with women who live on farms, are part of farm families, or who live in rural communities. This is because A) I also live rurally so, yet again, I get it, and B) Rurality is a direct determinant of your mental health and rural folx don’t have the same kind of access to psychotherapists that city folx do. It’s just geography. I happen to live rurally AND I’m a therapist so the math is mathing, as the kids say these days.

Just because you live in a small town and are a people-pleasing perfectionist anxious mess of a woman doesn’t necessarily mean we’re a good fit to work together. What I mean is, my clients are sick of being unhappy and overwhelmed and they are committed to doing the work to figure it out. If you are not ready to do that, that’s totally okay. Bookmark my website and get in touch when you are ready. I will be here!

As for all the letters behind my name, here’s what they mean and how they can help you know why I do the work I do:

  • Achieve my Honours Bachelor of Arts in English and Sociology from the University of Guelph in 2004

  • Went back to school at age 40, achieved my Masters in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University in 2024

  • Went through further training with the National Farmer Mental Health Alliance to become a Certified Agriculturally Informed Therapist, and

  • I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario

I love working with rural women because they’re typically kind, compassionate, funny, endearing and dedicated—just not to themselves! That version of me is someone I deeply admire and root for; she was just doing her best, and I will never fault her (or you!) for that. I know that change is possible and that these tendencies don’t have to rule your life forecer. I would be so happy and grateful to work with you so that you can say farewell to the anxious, people-pleasing perfectionist and hello to who you really want to be.

Woman with short black hair wearing teal glasses and a red plaid shirt.
Cows in a barn feeding from a trough with fans above.
A woman in a blue cap taking a selfie with a white cow in a barn.
Tractor working in a field at sunset with trees silhouetted against the glowing sky and dark clouds overhead.