Hi, I’m Jessie.
Maybe you've done the work before and you're ready to go deeper. Maybe you've built a life that looks right from the outside and you're tired of it not feeling right on the inside. Maybe the same patterns keep showing up - in relationships, in work, in how you move through the world - and you're finally ready to understand them.
Let me help.
I've been working in the mental health field for ten years, but my path to this work wasn't a straight line. I spent years in a job that wasn't meant for me, in a relationship that wasn't healthy, bouncing around the world every couple of years to avoid putting down roots. Life felt like it had a handle on me, but not me on it. My own path to mental wellness changed the course of my life - eventually leading me to study Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine at Boston University and Counselor Education and Supervision at James Madison University.
I work from a feminist lens. I believe the systems women are expected to navigate - the competing demands, the impossible standards, the ways we learn to take up or not take up space - shape the interior lives women bring to therapy. I hold both. The personal and the structural. I will not offer you platitudes and I will not pretend the world is neutral.
I now work with women and couples in private practice, seeing clients in person in Arlington, Massachusetts and via telehealth across Massachusetts and Washington, and I supervise pre-licensed clinicians in both states. Mastrangelo Counseling is a growing practice - I am building a team of clinicians who share this approach to care.
I'd love to work with you.
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My clinical work has always been centered on depth - on the kind of therapy that asks not just what is happening, but why, and what it means. I work with women on questions of identity, relational patterns, self-understanding, and the interior life that exists beneath a well-constructed exterior. I work with couples on the emotional architecture underneath their conflict. And I train and supervise clinicians who want to do this kind of work too.
My clinical experience includes: individual and group counseling with cancer patients and their caregivers, psychiatric triage in a hospital emergency department, individual and couples counseling with college students, group counseling for survivors of dating, domestic, and sexual violence, rural mental health in western Virginia, and individual and couples counseling in private practice.
I currently work as Adjunct Faculty at Walden University where I teach and supervise in-person and online. Courses I have taught include: Human Growth and Development, Career Counseling, Family of Origin, Psychotherapy Process, Multicultural Perspectives, DEI Seminar Series, Group Counseling, Practicum Supervision, and Internship Case Consultation.
Ph.D. in Counseling and Supervision, James Madison University
M.A. in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine, Boston University, Graduate Medical Sciences
M.B.A., Western New England University
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Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), NBCC
Approved Clinical Supervisor, Massachusetts and Washington
Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Level One Certified
EMDR Trained, EMDRIA
Inclusive Teaching: Supporting All Students in the College Classroom
Community R3: Recognize, Respond, and Refer (domestic violence training)
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American Counseling Association (ACA)
Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES)
Association for Humanistic Counseling (AHC)
Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (WACES)
Human Rights Committee, ACA (2020-2021 appointment)
Program Evaluation, Rebound Program, James Madison University
Women’s Professional Development Committee (2017-2019)
Ready to talk?
I offer a free 15-minute consultation call before we begin working together. It is a chance for both of us to make sure we are a good fit. If we are, we’ll schedule a first session. If we’re not, I’ll help you find someone who is.
I respond to inquiries within a few hours on business days.