Jennifer S Bailey, MA, LMFT 

Individual sessions = $125

Fees are based on a standard 50-minute "hour."

PLEASE NOTE THAT JENNIFER DOES NOT ACCEPT INSURANCE OF ANY KIND AT THIS TIME, BUT SHE CAN PROVIDE A SUPERBILL--CALL YOUR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROVIDER AND SEE IF YOU CAN BE REINBURSED FOR AN OUT-OF-NETWORK PROVIDER. KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE TO COVER ALL SESSION FEES UNTIL YOUR INSURANCE REIMBURSES YOU. ALSO BE AWARE THAT SOME INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL NOT REIMBURSE FOR SOME DIAGNOSES, AND THIS IS OUT OF THE CONTROL OF THE THERAPIST.

Jennifer specializes in working with adult men and women struggling with the following disorders or issues:

• Anxiety, Fears, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)

• Borderline Personality Disorder

     (Both clients themselves and their families, including adult children raised by BPD parents)

• Childhood Trauma​

• Codependent ("CoDA") Behaviors​

• Creative Blocks/Working in the Entertainment Industry​

• Grief/Loss

• Peer Relationships

• Perfectionism, Self-Criticism

• Personailty Disorders​

• Relationship Issues​​

• Stress

• Therapist Preparation

• Toxic Relationships

• Trauma, C-PTSD, PTSD

• Women in Transition

In therapy, you take a journey into yourself. I serve as a guide, pointing out areas of interest, highlighting new perspectives and helping you make your own choices along the way. I help carry the burden until you are strong enough to carry it yourself or discover that there is no burden left.

Our early relationships help define us, but if these experiences were painful, whom can we trust? I specialize in working with personality-disordered clients and clients from difficult, abusive or critical backgrounds, and helping them to discover themselves beyond their anxiety, anger, perfectionism, codependent or overwhelming relationships.

I have been trained in, and utilize, many theoretical orientations in treatment according to individual client need and presentation (e.g.: Cognitive Behaviorial, Gestalt, Family Systems, etc.), however my main theoretical orientation can be described primarily as Psychodynamic, encompassing both Adlerian and Object-Relations therapy. This orientation is known as "insight oriented therapy."

General goals for therapy include developing a client's self-awareness and understanding how past patterns, unresolved conflicts, coping mechanisms and relationship dynamics influence present actions and reactions. As William Shakespeare once wrote, "past is prologue," so too, are we influenced by our early childhood experiences. It should be noted that this type of therapy is not a digging through to find the "why"--as whys are seldom helpful, and blame is never a goal--but more about revealing the "hows." For once we see the underpinnings of our behavior, ignorance is dissolved and we become aware. No longer blind to the interactions of our process on our behaviors, this self-awareness  opens up options for different behavior and gives us choice. It is for this reason that insight is a key objective in Psychodynamic therapy: Once we've seen how the sausage is made, so to speak, we are less inclined to move backwards in our development. Aware of how the past influences our present, we are free to make more informed choices for our future.