Biologically respectful therapy for neurodivergent helpers, healers, and creative humans

Specialized support to help your sensory system navigate the complexities of your role and learn practical strategies for stress recovery so you can sustain your work with renewed capacity and presence.

Serving therapy participants in Bellingham, Seattle, and throughout Washington State; and coaching participants everywhere.

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accepting new clients

evening and weekend availability

online appointments

I help deeply feeling carers and hyper-receptive neurotypes in high attunement vocations access balance, calm, and agency while harnessing their sensory system as a superpower.

Raise your hand if you've ever been told, "you're too sensitive." Or some variation of toughen up, grow thicker skin, stop feeling so much. Me too. I'm here to help you find a more sustainable way: one that allows you to honor your deeply feeling, deeply connected parts while creating a sturdy ground for those parts to grow their magic in the world - whether that's creating art, caring for other beings (people, animals, plants), teaching/coaching, or administering social services.

You need support that can help you deconstruct the unhelpful messaging of a culture that continues to perpetuate the myth of "top down" emotional control as a moral virtue (particularly in helping professions), and instead nurture a more balanced, safe, life-affirming fullness of being, feeling, thinking, and relating.

Services

I specialize in providing somatically rooted mental health support for healers, helpers, and creatives of all kinds, including

mental health workers: counselors, therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists

educators: teachers, administrators, coaches

healthcare professionals: doctors, nurses, medical assistants

case managers & non-profit administrators

childcare/eldercare providers

veterinary professionals

writers, artists, actors, and creatives

environmental stewards, activists

birth and death workers, doulas, midwives, hospice carers

volunteers and students in high attunement fields

Stress & Anxiety Group

8 Weeks / $30 per group

Psychoeducational group support
Evidence-based methods for stress recovery/management
Affordable and accessible
Read, listen, and join live sessions

Individual Therapy

Out of Network / $140 per hour

Anxiety
Depression
Medical Professional Stress
Burnout / Compassion Fatigue / Vicarious Trauma
Grief
Work Stress
Change & Transition
Relational Concerns

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To be alive: not just the carcass

but the spark

that's crudely put, but...

if we're not supposed to dance,

why all this music?

- Gregory Orr -

Hey there

I'm Jess, a somatically oriented therapist and hyper-empath who knows firsthand what it's like to connect and create inside a porous mind-body system. It's challenging, exciting, meaningful, exhausting, and so important to our collective well being. In my two decades of work as a therapist I've come across countless theories for "why" some of us take in so much, many of them saturated in the pathology-oriented context of our cultural systems. Regardless of who gets to define truth, some of the most beautiful parts of being human arrive through the hands, hearts, and minds of highly receptive neurotypes. Folks who care deeply and have the courage to tune thoughtfully into the world outside of themselves. I've made it my mission to create a space that supports and informs this way of being.

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Jess

Sherriff LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

WA #LF60316363

Crisis Resources

If you are in distress or need immediate help please call or text 988.

Neuro-affirming therapy for the deeply feeling in Bellingham, Seattle, and throughout WA State.