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Jessica Diaz, MA, LPC, has practiced therapy in community mental health settings across Milwaukee working with families, children, adolescents, and adults. She utilizes person-centered and strengths-based frameworks to encourage a collaborative growth process.

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Treatment Philosophy

Jessica understands that therapy can be a complex, confusing, and amazing process that fosters internal healing through relationship. Her therapy approach centers from a humble place of understanding and highlights the possibility for hope with gentle challenge and honesty.

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Throughout her professional career, Jessica developed a strong knowledge base of therapy models, which allows her to develop the best plan to meet your needs. Her areas of expertise include:

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• Adjustment concerns (career, relational, life phase transitions)

• Attachment strengthening

• Caregiver/parent stress

• Mental health concerns in youth, ages 4-17 years

• Crisis and suicidality

• Depressive, anxiety and mood disorders

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Jessica is passionate about community outreach and provides psycho-education surrounding trauma symptoms and trauma recovery in young children through young adults, harm reduction strategies for teens/young adults, parental and caregiver self care, emotion regulation and coping for children and teens, self care for community mental health professionals, and attachment formation between children and their caregivers.

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Education and Affiliations

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, BS, Psychology and Environmental Studies

• Marquette University, MA, Community Counseling (child/adolescent/family)

• Member of American Counseling Association (ACA)