Lessons Learned From A Brand New Therapist

Jessalyn Jackson
Published in
5 min readDec 7, 2018

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It was the first Saturday of September. When I opened the office that day, it was quiet and strange. I can’t believe I have the keys to this office building I thought, what a responsibility. I went to the filing cabinet as directed, grabbed my case load, and headed down the hall to my office where I was to see my first clients, ever. After I situated the aesthetic of the room a bit, I sat at the desk in the far…

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Jessalyn Jackson
Invisible Illness

Jessalyn is a psychotherapist who works primarily with adolescents in the greater Seattle area on anxiety, trauma, and depression.