Jessica Talley

With creativity, curiosity, and zest as her top strengths, Jessica approaches her clients’ concerns with inspired resourcefulness. She has a passion for health – emotional, physical, transpersonal, and environmental. Before returning to school for counseling she worked as a personal trainer and she strives to integrate knowledge from her fitness background and coaching education into her mental health practice.

Jessica has a special interest in helping people address challenges with anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, self-care and resiliency, and transpersonal and existential growth, She implements a supportive, integrative approach that includes cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, grounding practices, stress management, and experiential therapies including work with mandala drawing and the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM), an evidenced-based, depth-oriented psychotherapy that uses specifically designed musical programs that evoke personal imagery to access and explore the human psyche.

Originally from Maryland, Jessica moved around quite a bit before settling down in the mountains of southwest Virginia where she plays outdoors as much as possible hiking, biking, kayaking, gardening, and spending time with her family. She also enjoys writing, yoga, primal movement, HIIT workouts, dancing, reading, studying ancestral health, and cooking with local, seasonal foods.