Jessica Rix, LCSW
Hi, I’m Jessica and I’m so thankful you are here. I realize reaching out for therapy is not an easy thing, so I appreciate your time to consider me as your therapist. Please read below about who and what I most commonly work with, to see if I might be a good fit for you!
I love working with individuals who want to learn how to have a healthy relationship with themselves and others, particularly with individuals who have grown up in childhood trauma/chaos, have endured a relationship trauma, or have struggled with emotionally immature parents/partners– and want to heal and do relationships differently than what they’ve experienced before.
Stated simply, I help individuals have a healthy relationship with themselves and others – no matter what they came from or relationship hurt they have endured. This often includes: Self-worth/esteem, identity, communication and boundaries skills, learning how to securely attach and have healthy relationships with others, learning to recognize unhealthy relationship patterns you might repeat, understanding how our past impacts our relationships today, processing/working through separation/divorce or rebuilding trust.
I also love helping women with pregnancy and postpartum mental health, including anxiety, depression, relationship and body image changes, and the overall transition into motherhood and learning to “balance it all.” I have worked with a lot of career women that become mothers and feel lost in this new season, as they no longer relate to their work, partner, or themselves in the way they did before. I also love to support women who are learning to do motherhood and life different than they grew up in. Parenthood has a way of bringing up our past like never before and learning to heal it while showing up as the parent you want to, can be incredibly difficult at times. However, parenthood has a way of healing parts of us like never before.
If you’d like support on your journey with any of these topics, please reach out and let’s chat to see if I might be a good fit for what you are looking for. I know reaching out can feel incredibly vulnerable (I’ve done it myself), but I also know how worth it that it can be.
Again, thank you for considering me in your therapy journey.
Let’s start a conversation with an email : therapy@wholehealthcounseling.live or send a text (208)207-4022 to set up a time for a consultation.
I also love to assist individuals struggling with:
Grief/loss
Life transitions (divorce/separation, college/career, family changes/children, unknown future, etc)
Anxiety
Pregnancy/Postpartum/Motherhood
Identifying and meeting life goals (health/wellness, career, personal)
Illness (acute or chronic)
Difficult parent relationships
Why me?
I’m a wife, a mother, and and consider myself a cycle breaker. I’ve had my own hardships, gone through counseling, and have dug deep to find healing and the ‘me’ I want to be. I’m human and not perfect, but I work hard to have self-awareness and put into practice what I teach. Sometimes that requires stepping back, starting over, and reaching out. I absolutely love what I do, consider it an honor, and believe therapy truly works to help people work through some of their most difficult times.
When I’m not working with clients, my happy place is spending time with my family outside. I love the outdoors and doing as many activities outside as possible. I love the rain and snow, but give me the sunshine and mountains. I have a bit of an addiction to coffee and buying books, and hope to one day read all of them! Anyone else have this problem?! I’m also a homebody who has a love for travel.
My eduction, training, and experience:
I have enjoyed a wide range of work settings in the last nine years and I feel thankful for all of the skills and knowledge each setting has brought me! I’ve worked in medical hospitals where I have sat with moms in the NICU providing support, to working busy emergency rooms and watching someone take their last breath. I’ve worked in inpatient psychiatric hospitals with people experiencing severe suicidal thoughts, to clinics and community agencies doing group therapy and individual therapy. Along the way my passions and specialties have morphed, but throughout the years I’ve noticed themes, specific loves, and things that seem to click most. These include, working with individuals to stop generational family dysfunction and helping them learn how to have healthy relationships, love themselves, calm their anxious mind, and show up as the individual, spouse, and parent they want to be. I’ve seen people make incredible transformations and have been in awe of how resilient people can be.
Education:
Masters in Social Work from University of Southern California
Post graduate work: collected over two years of clinical hours while under supervision, to take the national clinical exam that allows me to practice independently as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker/Licensed Therapist.
Bachelors of Psychology from California State University Sacramento