About
Jessica Alexander has been providing therapeutic services to adults, children, adolescents, and families in individual and group settings since 2011. She is licensed in the states of Georgia and Tennessee as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Her professional experiences include working in a variety of types of care including residential, inpatient hospital settings, PHP/IOP programs, outpatient therapy, and in-home treatment. Jessica especially enjoys working with teenagers and their parents. Her goal is to help her clients better relate and understand one another through healing.
Topics of Expertise
Jessica specializes in topics related to self-esteem, family dynamics, relationships, addiction, and mental health symptoms (anxiety, depression, etc.). Throughout her years working in the mental health field, she has gained experience working with all age groups. Jessica was the clinical director of an outpatient substance use program for 5.5 years where she learned about addiction and how it impacts the individual as well as the family unit. She is well versed in providing therapy to individuals, couples, and families struggling with mental health issues. Jessica feels that all families have the ability to grow and change out of old family patterns by developing a healthier way to interact and connect.
Jessica received her undergraduate degree in Sociology in 2010 from Kennesaw State University with concentrations in medical sociology & social change and her Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2012 from Valdosta State University.
The Journey to Becoming a Therapist
Jessica’s journey to becoming a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist started in high school after her parents shared they were getting a divorce. Through her own experiences with shifting family dynamics, Jessica felt a calling to work with people who are struggling with their own family dynamics and the mental health symptoms that come with those changes. Throughout her career, she has continued to follow that passion of helping people heal by growing in her own experience with different treatment problems and challenging herself to learn more about her own story and new interventions to try in therapy with her clients.
Two Roads Therapy is a space where Jessica hopes she can bring people to a place of addressing any negative patterns that prevent each person from living their most fulfilled lives. Your therapeutic experiences will feature highs and lows. It is likely that there will be times when, as a client, you feel proud of the work you are doing, satisfied with your therapeutic relationship, and excited about the ways in which you are growing and changing. It is also equally likely and appropriate that there may be times when you are feeling more sad, angry, scared, or confused than you were when you started therapy. It is normal to expect things to get worse before they get better as you begin talking about, thinking about, and processing feelings that have been shoved down and pushed aside. Jessica highly encourages her clients to speak with her on how they are feeling and share their emotions and experiences honestly and openly.