Hi, and welcome! I’m Tess!

I’m a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the state of Pennsylvania and located in the Hershey area. I hold additional certifications as an international certified advanced alcohol and drug counselor (ICAADC) and a board-certified music therapist (MT-BC).

I believe my role as a therapist is just to show up in the way that works best for each client, but always as my authentic self underneath it all. I’m a social justice therapist, which means I acknowledge and help you recognize the ways that the society you live in impacts your overall mental and emotional experiences. I work from an IFS framework, which, put simply, means that I see things through a non-judgmental space, operating from compassion and curiosity and a strong desire to understand each client’s unique experience of being a human. I have training in a variety of techniques, including CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS, expressive arts therapies, and polyvagal informed/somatic practices, and often use a mix of many things to meet each person’s individual needs at the time.

I bring spirituality into my practice, and love helping clients connect with their own spirituality, whatever that may look like for you! I have training in using tarot in a psychotherapy setting, and often lean heavily on intuitive work when I’m with clients (and love, love, love helping clients build stronger connections with their own intuition!) Helping hold space for those who hold space for everyone around them is something I very much believe in, and I really enjoy utilizing expressive and creative arts to help do more than just talk around your issues.

Things you may be struggling with that indicate I may be a good fit include:

-life transitions (and figuring out what you want in the new chapter you’re entering, or who you are in that chapter)

-complex trauma

-relationship struggles and patterns that feel impossible to break

-finding your identity and sharing your wonderful authentic self more freely with the world

-figuring out how to be neurodivergent and not burned out

-wanting to explore more of your kink identity and how to live your best, most aligned kinky life

-high achieving, always doing and struggling with being

-helping everyone but struggling with accepting help

A little bit about me outside of therapy

In my free time, I love spending time with my family and friends (my chosen family!), being outside as much as possible, gardening, hiking, reading, doing puzzles, coloring, cooking (and eating) good food, traveling, and building Lego. I love freedom to be creative in many ways, and bring that creativity into the therapy space. I identify as queer, use she/they pronouns, identify as a witch, and am a member of the kink and ENM communities.