ATNS New York City Chapter

Psychotherapist, Chapter Co-Founder

Jessica is a psychotherapist based in New York City specializing in the treatment of chronic pain and conditions. She works with individuals experiencing persistent pain, anxiety, and related symptoms, with a focus on supporting shifts in the nervous system patterns that keep symptoms going. Her work focuses on directly engaging the physiological patterns that maintain pain and distress, supporting clients in cultivating greater ease in the body while building more expansive, meaningful lives.

Her approach integrates pain reprocessing therapy (PRT), somatic experiencing (SE), and inner-relationship focusing (IRF) within a relational, depth-oriented framework. She blends contemporary pain neuroscience education, thoughtfully paced and tailored to each client, with present-moment, experiential work to support deep, lasting change. Her work often attracts

thoughtful, creative, and driven individuals navigating the demands of life in New York City and a rapidly changing world, supporting the integration of insight with embodied experience in a way that is both sustainable and deeply personal.

Jessica’s clinical perspective is shaped by her own experience with chronic pain and recovery—an ongoing, evolving process that led her to this work and continues to inform it. She brings a grounded, relational style that meets clients where they are while gently challenging the patterns that keep them stuck. She is passionate about helping shift how mind-body conditions are understood and treated, and is committed to strengthening interdisciplinary care and community through her role as a co-leader of the ATNS chapter.

Physical Therapist, Chapter Co-Founder

I am a graduate of Wayne State University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program and have been treating patients for over 10 years. I have spent most of my career working in outpatient hospital settings seeing patients with orthopedic and neurological diagnoses.

Throughout my time as a practitioner, I have seen many patients with chronic pain. In my previous approach to physical therapy, some patients with chronic pain made significant progress, others showed only minor improvement, and some did not improve at all. I found these outcomes to be frustrating as a provider, and I’m sure my patients who had shown little or no progress found this to be even more frustrating.

In my search for methods to help these patients, I became certified in pain reprocessing therapy (PRT) and completed the OvidDx program. This opened a paradigm shift of treating the root cause of neuroplastic symptoms, and I am seeing the results in my patients’ progress.

My skillset as a physical therapist, including being able to recognize inconsistencies in movement patterns and with palpation, often provides the evidence a patient needs that structural changes are not the cause of their pain. The explanation of these findings and associated treatments has been instrumental in the recovery process for many of my patients.

I look forward to sharing my expertise and helping as many patients as possible find their path to recovery.