Dr. Jessica Chasnoff received her undergraduate training from the University of Alaska in Anchorage and obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. Her internship was completed at the Chicago Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, a training center created by Carl Rogers, the father of client-centered therapy. She has experience working with children and adolescents in schools as well as in behavioral treatment programs, and with adults in both outpatient and community mental health settings. She has been in private practice since obtaining her license in 2004.
Jessica works with adults, in individual, couple, and group modalities. Her main area of specialization involves working with individuals who are interested in deep personal growth. She believes that the main reason we experience symptoms such as extreme stress, anxiety, and depression is because we have become distracted and/or disconnected from our deepest longings, our spiritual reason for existing. Reconnecting to both our perfect and inherently flawed humanity with gentleness and a sense of humor is the way that the true self can be revealed. She is passionate about providing a gateway for clients to experience this reconnection.
Jessica believes that every individual has basic goodness and the ability to grow. Her goal as a therapist is to help clients cultivate a better conceptualization of self, others, and life circumstances and to facilitate clients' cultivation of a deep and lasting friendship with themselves. She does this by offering empathy, unconditional positive regard, being her authentic self, and gently inviting clients to create change in their lives that will result in increased joy and vitality. She aims to improve clients' attunement to their bodies by offering tools such as relaxation, meditation, breath work, physical expression of emotion through sound and movement, and dance.
Jessica is committed to living fully. She holds this work so dear because it is responsible for a large part of her own personal and spiritual journey. As she continues to work with and shed her own worn-out stories and life patterns, she holds a strong intention to reside more fully in her heart and listen to the soft voice that speaks of her soul's deep longings. This voice has presently led her to expand her training by undertaking a four-year training program in Core Evolution. With this additional training, she hopes to further assist in clients' reconnection with their full being and bear witness to their personal evolution.