Jewels Willing, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Growing up in parent-child conflict or a difficult home environment can feel like climbing a mountain without a map. You learned to navigate the storms, stay alert, and find ways to protect yourself. Those skills helped you survive back then, and they can follow you long after you’ve grown up. Now, those childhood survival skills may show up as anxiety, hypervigilance, difficulty trusting others, people-pleasing, challenges speaking your truth, or trouble setting healthy boundaries with others. You don’t have to spend your life surviving in the ways you once needed to. Therapy can help you create a life that feels like your own. My specialty is providing therapeutic treatment to individuals who grew up in a troubled parent-child dynamic or emotionally painful home environment. I'm a nurturing therapist and am very committed to this work. If you’re tired of carrying the weight of your past into your present, I’d be honored to walk alongside you on your path of healing. To everyone seeking therapy, please know this: you deserve to have a voice, and your voice is important. Your feelings matter, and you are not alone. “Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.” -Robert Hunter

Trainings I have recently completed: a 3-month Internal Family Systems training program with Dr. Frank Anderson; a three-month certificate training program, "Treating Adults of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Reclaim Their Lives from the Toxic Legacy of Controlling, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents," with Dr. Lindsay Gibson; and Level 1 and Level 2 certificate training in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy with Dr. Sue Johnson. I also have training in attachment trauma and the impact it has on our brain, body, behavior, and relationships.