Jessie Diamond, M.Ed, LPC, NCC
 
 
     
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Jessie Diamond
M.Ed, LPC, NCC

503-997-7910

Counseling Services
in Portland OR

Marriage and Family
Communication Counseling
Individual Counseling
Relationship Counseling
Divorce Counseling
Depression Counseling
Anxiety Counseling
Life Transitions
Grief and Loss Counseling

 

Client's Views

Virtues of therapy

"I entered therapy deeply suspicious and cynical about the process.  I found in Jessie an amazing conversation partner, someone who never slipped into storebought aphorisms or easy comforts.  Instead, she was funny and wise and immensely game to my own irritable reflexivity about our conversations and about the purpose of counseling.  In a particularly bleak moment in my life, Jessie was the pitch-perfect voice of possibility, goading me to press past despair by staring at it, and learning to understand its sources.  I can honestly say that she singlehandedly convinced me of the virtues of therapy."

K.L.

My work with Jessie has been phenomenal

My work with Jessie has been phenomenal. I have made amazing progress in my seven months working with her. It is difficult to revisit where I was only 5 months ago, but it is inspiring to see the progress I have made. Jessie's genuine positivity and gentle wisdom have been my constant through this time of change. She always makes it clear that it is MY work, and that I am the one taking responsibility for my issues and my past, this I appreciate. She acts as a strong supporter, without doing the work for you. This has been the key to feeling better, taking responsibilty for where my life is. Jessie provides an incredibly safe and welcoming space to explore whatever avenues of your life are troubling you. I would recommend Jessie to anyone who is serious about feeling better.

S.P.

A Personal Note

I have now been working with Jessie for almost two years.  When asked about what I have gained from doing this work, I can answer that I have gained a prospective future- something I had stopped believing in nearly a decade ago.
I had been in counseling prior and had given up because my concerns for what I felt my past added up to be were not believed. I left, and the panic attacks and flashbacks worsened.  I was referred to Jessie at that point and within the first year they had subsided, and then stopped.  Yes, I am still confronting various things as time passes, but I am becoming more and more confidant that I can get through this, no matter what.
I have noticed that Jessie is a highly intuitive, skilled individual who values human life and all its quirks.  She brings humor, caring, compassion, and wholeness into a setting of safety and hope.  My personal trials are validated and my accomplishments praised.
Jessie also accepts - and I think appreciates - added modalities of healing that I incorporate along with her own work.  I am able to bring in what I have learned about myself from books, tapes, writings, drawings, dreams, and various classes, which in turn give her a greater scope of who I am and where I may be coming from.
As she says, "It is as if we're lost in the woods, and I have the lantern.  You are the one leading us out."