Jessica A. Rose, LMHC

I'm a licensed psychotherapist in New York where I am equal parts therapist and plant mom. I'm a believer in the power of a well-placed expletive and am very serious about non-alternative facts. You can find me at www.jrosetherapy.com

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Self and the City: Taking Steps is Easy

I believe that therapy is supposed to be hard – that it’s only when therapy is in fact hard, cracking us wide open, that it’s able to finally access the hurt parts that need tending to. Remember that line in the theme song of Orange Is the New Black:“Taking steps is easy/Standing still is hard?”…

Self and the City: The First 30 Days

I believe women inherently know their bodies. Though, medicine and magazines have subverted our trust in ourselves. Trust that we understand that all-knowing “gut” feeling that is our body speaking to us in a language we’ve lost. I had just turned 30, made the decision to make a baby, and had no vision of what…