Jessica Hernández

# Individual & Couples Therapist

## Maybe Nothing Is Terribly Wrong—But Your Relationship Doesn’t Feel Good Anymore

You keep having the same argument, even when you promise each other you won’t. One of you reaches for connection while the other pulls away. Small disagreements become bigger fights—or you’ve stopped talking about certain things altogether because it feels easier.

You may love each other deeply and still wonder how you became so disconnected.

Or maybe relationships aren’t the only place you’re struggling. You might constantly overthink, feel on edge, have difficulty trusting people, struggle to set boundaries, or react more strongly than you want to. Experiences from your past may still affect how safe, connected, or in control you feel today.

Jessica provides couples counseling and individual therapy for adults struggling with relationship problems, anxiety, trauma, emotional disconnection, and painful experiences that continue affecting their lives.

## Couples Counseling

Couples often get stuck in patterns that leave both people feeling unheard, criticized, rejected, misunderstood, or alone.

Jessica helps couples understand what is happening underneath the arguments, defensiveness, resentment, or distance. Rather than simply learning to “communicate better,” couples therapy focuses on changing the cycle between you and creating a more secure emotional connection.

Jessica has advanced training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based approach for strengthening connection and helping partners respond to one another differently.

Couples counseling can help with repeated arguments, communication problems, emotional distance, infidelity and relationship injuries, trust, unresolved conflict, major life transitions, and rebuilding emotional intimacy.

## Individual & Trauma Counseling

Sometimes you know exactly where your struggles began. Other times, you just know you’re exhausted from feeling the way you do.

You may feel anxious even when everything is technically okay. You might overthink conversations, feel unable to relax, shut down during conflict, people-please, avoid difficult situations, or feel responsible for everyone else’s emotions. You may also wonder why something that happened years ago still affects you today.

Jessica works with adults experiencing anxiety and the lasting effects of painful, frightening, overwhelming, or complicated experiences—including people who aren’t sure whether what they experienced “counts” as trauma.

Trauma therapy doesn’t have to mean repeatedly reliving everything that happened. The goal is to help you understand your reactions, process what you’ve experienced, and begin responding to your life based on what is happening now rather than what happened then.

Jessica’s extensive trauma-focused training allows her to tailor counseling to each person. Her training includes EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), complex trauma and dissociation, mindfulness, attachment-focused approaches, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT).

Whether you’re trying to reconnect with your partner or feel more like yourself again, counseling can help you understand the patterns keeping you stuck and begin creating something different.