Jackie Turner

In couples therapy, I support and encourage you in opening up to a different kind of experience with your partner, as well as developing the skills needed to build an authentic, interdependent connection. I work to bring greater attention and understanding to the emotional processes occurring beneath the surface, making vulnerability safer, and giving our emotions more space to be attended to and understood by our partners - while also building the tools to soothe and care for ourselves.

Anxiety is part of a healthy nervous system response, but it can become chronic and overwhelming, especially in our world today. Whether it's anxiety about events in our larger culture and communities, overwhelm about the pace of life and day-to-day responsibilities, anxiety about your place in the world, or a combination of factors, it can be challenging to navigate. I have worked with many clients who are looking for better ways to cope with, understand, or work to resolve their anxiety.

I utilize parts work and aspects of IFS extensively in my work. We all contain multitudes, as the saying goes. Our inner protectors can use a variety of tactics to keep us safe, but these can often cause us trouble in other ways. In therapy we work to bring insight and voice to those multitudes we contain within us, and we also, importantly, work to build a stronger connection to your core self to allow you more agency to take back the reins and develop self-trust.

In my work I am always paying attention to the emotional processes and experiences that are occurring in the room, often under the surface, particularly when they arise in our closest relationships. We all have attachment patterns that can cause us to miss each other on an emotional level, and a big part of couples therapy is bringing those patterns into our conscious awareness and help us learn to meet each other's and our own needs more effectively, for a closer relationship.

While I use different modalities in my work, attachment theory is my foundation. I believe that we are all wired for connection and need it for survival - as a result, our relationships are essential, yet we often have relational wounds that can make it hard for us to connect, all the way down to the nervous system level. As such, it is central to our well-being to be able to explore and understand our patterns and learn to attend to those deep needs.

Are you navigating the ways your attachment style leads you to show up in relationships, and how you relate to your community and your world? My work is firmly rooted in attachment theory and works to integrate your work in therapy with your nervous system, and support you in building more self-understanding and self-compassion, and to heal and grow beyond the attachment wounds you may be carrying.

Spiritual and religious abuse can be incredibly destabilizing. The process of healing from these wounds can be ongoing, yet it offers a unique opportunity to deconstruct and externalized imposed beliefs, develop your own identity, connect with your intuition, reclaim an authentic spirituality or navigate questions about meaning and purpose, and restore self-trust and discernment. I support clients who are in the rebuilding phase after religious, spiritual, or cultic abuse.

Moving through this world as a feminine person brings its unique challenges and gifts. Many of us feel cut off from our instincts and intuition, the brave, fierce, and discerning sides of ourselves, and the empathic, deep-feeling, and nurturing. In therapy I work to help you process, heal from, and find your own sense of meaning within the varied experiences that many women experience across the lifespan.

Grief can be an unwelcome initiation to the deeper levels of life. I work to support you in telling the story of your grief and loss, in exploring deeper themes around death, loss, and grieving, and in finding your way through the tangled undergrowth. I work to help you claim your agency within your journey of grief, tend to the emotional, spiritual, and psychic wounding you may have sustained, and locate the rituals, frameworks, and stories that can offer you a pathway forward.

As a couples therapist, I lean heavily on my training in family and relationship systems, and draw on EFT and Gottman principles frequently. I emphasize your existing strengths, and help clients work on improving communication, building interdependence and differentiation, cultivating greater intimacy, and learning to have productive conflict. I help clients understand their conflict & attachment styles, and begin to have a greater understanding of one another and themselves.