Jennifer Banks

You're carrying more than you let on.

I work with adults who are holding a lot and are tired of pretending they're not. Competent, thoughtful people who look fine from the outside. Inside, they're navigating grief, long-standing depression, anxiety that never really shuts off, complicated family systems, or recovery from substance use.

Some have been in therapy before and felt unheard. Some are coming for the first time because whatever they've been doing is no longer working. Either way, you don't have to keep managing alone.

I've been working in mental health since 2009 and licensed since 2014. I bring lived experience of recovery and profound loss into this work. I don't center myself in sessions, but it shapes how I show up: with steadiness, honesty, and no illusions about how long healing can take.

I know what it is to rebuild. I know what it is to sit with grief that doesn't resolve neatly.

I'm licensed in Colorado, Virginia, and Wyoming and offer telehealth exclusively not as a default, but as a deliberate choice. It allows for privacy, consistency, and depth without adding more logistics to your life.

The relationship is the work. That sounds like the soft version of therapy, and it's actually the part with the most research behind it.

In practice, that means I don't hand out worksheets or run you through a protocol. I follow you. I ask questions, I stay with the hard thing instead of steering around it, and I pay attention to the systems you live inside, meaning family, work, health, history, the place you come from and what your people were taught to keep quiet about. Your struggles didn't happen in a vacuum and I don't treat them like they did.

I'll also tell you the truth, including when it seems like you're telling yourself a story that isn't serving you. I try to say it kindly, and I won't make you feel small for it.

At first, mostly relief from the managing. Most people arrive holding an enormous amount privately, and one hour a week where they can set it down does more than it sounds like it would.

Over time, what I usually see is grief that becomes more bearable rather than gone, anxiety that loses some of its authority, and old family patterns that a person can finally see from the outside instead of only living inside of. Some of it resolves, and some of it just gets carried differently, and I'd rather be honest with you about which is which than promise you the first one.

If you've been in therapy before and left feeling unheard, say so in the first session. I want to know.