Jackie Turner

Jackie is a psychodynamic therapist specializing in perinatal mental health and, specifically, the process of matrescence - or the identity shift at the heart of becoming a mother. Because after you become a parent, you aren't just you-but-with-a-baby-now: your entire identity changes, and we need more spaces and more support for the deep, profound, and sometimes challenging transformations that accompany this process. She is passionate about supporting mothers, people contemplating parenthood, and indeed those who are navigating any aspect of this transformative process because she has directly experienced how rich and wild this time can be during her own matresence, and also how we lack adequate language and supportive containers for this transition. Jackie believes therapy is a sacred relationship. It’s not primarily about modalities or interventions (though these matter) but about the relationship, and what happens within it. She doesn't believe in fixing you. She doesn't believe you're broken, even if you are suffering.She believes you are already whole, and that much of our suffering happens when we live within systems and a culture that gives us no adequate container to voice and make meaning out of our challenges or guide us through our transitions, and when we lose contact with the healing, steadying light that exists within ourselves. She practices psychodynamically, which means the relationship is the heart of the work. She draws on depth-oriented, IFS-informed, and Narrative approaches as languages for the deeper work of individuation. She sees dreams, archetypes, myths, and personal narratives as wise resources, and she likes to weave in active imagination, meditation, and EMDR as vehicles for accessing deeper insight, underneath the level of the intellect, and integrating beyond the level of talk therapy. She offers therapy to clients located in New Hampshire and in Oregon.