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Dani Jelsma (she/her/hers), BSW, LLMSW
Limited Licensed Masters Social Worker 

Welcome, and congratulations on starting the process of therapy! Whether you are returning to therapy or starting it for the first time, it can be an incredibly rewarding process. It is a privilege to come alongside you as we explore the complexities of your life together. 

My background and experience includes medical social work, crisis youth care, and group work with parents and children. I approach therapy with a heavily trauma-informed lens, understanding that each and every one of us comes to the table with our own complex histories and traumas that impact us in different ways. I take a client-centered approach, believing that you are the expert on your own life, and want to cater treatment goals towards your own individual needs. 

Personally, I am a big reader and nerd, a mother, cat mom, global nomad, and eldest daughter. I bring each of these experiences into our therapy sessions, and believe in the power of the therapeutic relationship at the core of our work together. 

My specialties include burnout, neurodivergence (including ADHD and Autism), parentification, complex trauma and complex PTSD, identity and sexuality, trauma in the medical field, religious deconstruction and/or reconstruction of belief systems, and cross-cultural/intercultural transitions and identity (including Third Culture Kids/Adult Third Culture Kids).