LGBTQ Community LIAISON

JESSICA WEISS

Primary Therapist

PhD Human Sexuality, MSW - Clinical Social Work, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LGBTQ+ Concerns, EMDR Trauma Therapy - EMDRIA Trained, Certified Clinical Trauma Therapist, Contextual Family Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Teenage and Adult Counseling, Learning differences and ID/DD Community Work, Trauma Informed Certification, Mindfulness Certification Training, Existential/Humanistic Training

“When we deny the story, it defines us.  When we own the story, we can write a brave new ending.”

~  Brene Brown

MEET JESSICA:

Jessica’s passion for working with the LGBTQ+ community is evident with her clinical hat and caseload at Sun Point Counseling. Dr. Weiss’ clients describe her as a strengths based, non-judgmental therapist who walks with her clients to meet their goals.  Her therapy doors welcome people of all genders, sexualities, cultures, religions, and diverse relationships arrangements.  With extensive advanced training in cultural competency and diversity, Jessica Weiss has clinical interventions that are relevant to each of her client’s needs.  The first words that Jessica’s clients use to describe her are: genuine, caring, hopeful, thoughtful, and realistic with a thoughtful treatment planning approach. 

        ​​Jessica is most proud and grateful of being able to walk alongside the journeys of both clients and her interns in their respective lives.  With over two decades of clinical experience, Jessica formerly was the  Coordinator of the Graduate Internship Program at a local counseling center, along with currently serving as an experienced Field Instructor and Social Work Graduate Lecturer at Millersville University.  Her clinical roles are diverse including: licensure supervision, school based counseling, outpatient mental health, and providing case consultation on LGBTQ+ and sexual therapy cases. Jessica Weiss earned her PhD in Human Sexuality from Widener University, where her dissertation addressed the sexuality needs for individuals with ID/DD through an exploratory qualitative study interviewing the individuals directly regarding perception of needs. 

  •         Jessica has extensive advanced trauma counseling training - including EMDR Trauma Therapy, and Mindfulness Certification Training which aid her in helping heal her clients from difficult events in their pasts.  Whether looking to feel confident in your relationship, reduce codependency, or gain skills to learn to feel safe to connect emotionally again - Jessica is here to support you.  She describes her advanced trainings emphasizing the intersectionality of our identities and our lived experiences that form our identities.  She keeps these aspects in mind while working with clients in her therapy room.  A book that impacts her clinical practice is “How to be Antiracist” by Ibram X Kendri.  His discussion on how we need to deconstruct oppressive dynamics within our lives, including the language and every day interactions with one another has inspired Jessica to do better in examining implicit biases and doing the work to improve her understanding of lived experiences for all.  Jessica embraces a narrative therapist approach with a feminine twist, which aligns with Ibram’s book’s philosophy.  

            Clients reach out to Dr. Weiss for both small challenges in their life, along with lifelong mental health challenges.  Jessica has expertise working with anxiety, depression, ADHD, disabilities, panic attacks, mood disorders, and sexual dysfunction.  Additionally, Jessica is experienced in working with crisis stabilization or heightened flooring emotions.  Some of Jessica’s additional areas of focus include: general individual mental health, couples therapy, family therapy, sexuality issues, LGBTQ+ (including gender identity journeys), trauma work (attachment, grief, trauma events), and ID/DD community work.

            Jessica is honored to help individuals and couples overcome sexual struggles both individually and in their relationships.  Whether you’re struggling with low sexual desire, mismatched sexual desire, erectile dysfunction, performance anxiety, sexual pain, or shame around sexual interests.  Dr. Weiss provides a safe, supportive environment for discussing these sensitive issues.  Using a thorough biopsychosocial approach, Jesssica explores how an individual’s biological, medical, social, psychological and attachment history may be impacting them.  She invites collaboration with all your providers: psychiatrists, primary care, gynecologists, urologists, and pelvic floor therapists. 

    After the work day is over, you can find Jessica enjoying nature’s beauty, fresh air, and sunsets on walking paths throughout the area. It is not uncommon you will also see her stopping to take a picture of something amazing and beautiful that nature has provided for us. She enjoys staying active as part of her self care plan.

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