About Wellness and peace
Therapy Practice: Jessica Strauss, LCSWC
Building Community: Groups forming in MARCH 2025
Therapy Practice: Jessica Strauss, LCSWC
With apologies - I am not able to take new clients at this time. I welcome former clients to check back in for individual sessions. However, I'd love to see d and new clients in groups starting in March!. Use the contact form below to express interest.
Our world can be oppressive and challenging. Many of us have experienced the trauma, even when we also enjoy life. You may experience constant stress, fear, chaos, conflict, numbness, hopelessness, doubts about your self-worth, or self-sabotaging behaviors. Maybe you can identify a specific source or maybe you really don't know where it all comes from. You are invited to seek your own healing and growth - liberation from your trauma, whether individual or generational, interpersonal or racialized, chronic or acute.
Welcome to a warm, safe space, a journey of healing and growth - setting your own goals and your own pace. With a variety of mindfulness-based approaches, we will learn what works for you. You have everything you need within you. my role is to help you gain insight, identify how you wish to change, cultivate hope, and develop the skills to practice rest, joy, peace, and purpose.
Resources and practices to share
Building Community: Groups forming in MARCH 2025
Therapy Practice: Jessica Strauss, LCSWC
One of the most important gifts we can provide is to share insightful resources that can spark and support another's growth. On these pages, you can find excellent books, articles, and websites, each one has been found to be helpful. Usefulness and resonance will be different for different people - so use your own discretion is your selections. We will post updated and curated ideas, practices, links and references. These will not all come from professionals! You are invited to send your favorite practices, links and readings to enrich others in the W&P community.
Note: Not all resources, while curated, can be thoroughly vetted and evaluated, so we cannot vouch for each and every idea or publication we share. Please enjoy reading and practicing, while you exercise discernment and ask a lot of questions!
When you find something useful, when you have an insight, when you develop a new practice, please use the Contact Form below to suggest it! We will review what you submit and share it when we confirm that it may be useful for others.
Building Community: Groups forming in MARCH 2025
Building Community: Groups forming in MARCH 2025
Building Community: Groups forming in MARCH 2025
One of the most essential features of humans is that we seek connection with others. We know this: for example, the Zulu word Ubuntu roughly translates to "I am because we are." And the science of mirror neurons now confirms it! In one another, we find comfort, challenge, witness, support, and simply understanding. We need one another to know ourselves.
Yet an unnatural and limiting feature of mental health care, stemming frankly from a white patriarchal, medical model, is the unnatural separateness of the conventional therapeutic relationship. Even in group therapy, the primary connection is often between therapist and clients, not a mutuality of peer connection.
Yet healing can be greatly enriched by sharing one's journey, safely and confidentially. Just by seeing one another as fellow travelers and learning from other experiences, our feelings of shame, isolation or mistrust can be lessened, while resilience and growth are stimulated, even while respecting the Code of Ethics and your privacy
[W]e tend to think of healing as something binary: either we’re broken or healed from brokenness. But that’s not how healing operates, and it’s almost never how human growth works. [H]ealing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands...
Thoughts on healing and wellness
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Wellness and Peace LLC
711 West 40th Street #404, Baltimore, Maryland 21211, United States
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