“I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.”
Isaiah 41:18
About Jessie Kuhn, LPC-S
ABOUT ME
I believe some of the most meaningful change happens when we feel safe enough to become curious about ourselves.
My approach to therapy is relational, attachment-based, and trauma-informed. Rather than beginning with What’s wrong with you? I’m often more interested in questions like What happened? How have you learned to do to survive it? And what might you need now?
I pay attention not only to what you’re experiencing, but to the patterns underneath it, how you learned to relate, protect yourself, make sense of pain, and seek connection.
Therapy with me isn’t about becoming a better version of yourself. It’s about understanding yourself more deeply, healing what has been wounded, and making room for greater freedom, connection, and wholeness.
I’ve spent much of my professional life sitting with people in the places where faith, relationships, grief, and the complexities of being human meet.
For more than a decade, my work has included counseling and caring for missionaries, ministry leaders, and cross-cultural workers. That experience has shaped me deeply—not only as a clinician, but in the way I understand belonging, loss, transition, identity, and the complicated experience of finding home.
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor in Texas and have advanced training in attachment-based and trauma-informed approaches, including EMDR. Alongside my private practice, I serve as Clinical Director at Oaks Counseling, where I provide clinical leadership and consultation to other counselors working with cross-cultural populations.
Outside the therapy room, I’m a wife and mom, a writer, and someone who finds a great deal of life outdoors, around animals, in good conversation, and in places where there’s room to be quiet. I’m drawn to stories—the ones we tell, the ones we avoid, and the ones we are still learning how to understand.
FAITH & THEOLOGY IN THE THERAPY ROOM
My Christian faith deeply shapes how I understand people, relationships, suffering, and healing. I believe we were created for connection, with God, with others, and within ourselves. And that our deepest wounds often affect our capacity to experience that connection.
I also believe the Holy Spirit is the true and best Counselor and that meaningful healing is ultimately His work.
Therapy can become a place where we begin to notice our wounds, fears, protective patterns, and ways of relating that may make it difficult to receive the love, grace, and freedom God offers.
For clients who desire it, I intentionally integrate Christian theology, prayer, Scripture, and attention to what God may be doing in the therapeutic process. I don't see psychological insight and spiritual formation as competing ways of understanding a person. I believe they can inform one another.
That integration is especially important in my attachment-based work. Our earliest relationships often shape what we expect from closeness, trust, dependence, love, and even God. Sometimes what we believe theologically and what we experience relationally don't quite match. Therapy can offer a place to become curious about that gap without shame.
And faith is welcome here even when it is complicated. Grief, trauma, disappointment, doubt, anger, church hurt, or seasons when God feels distant don't need to be resolved before they can be brought into the room.
HOW I WORK
I practice from an attachment-based, relational, and trauma-informed perspective. That means we pay attention not only to what is happening in your life now, but to the experiences and relationships that have shaped how you understand yourself, others, and the world around you.
I draw heavily from Object Relations and attachment theory, and when helpful, incorporate EMDR and other trauma-focused approaches. I’m less interested in applying a technique simply because a symptom is present and more interested in understanding what that symptom, pattern, or protective response may be telling us.
The relationship we build in therapy matters, too. The ways we experience closeness, misunderstanding, trust, vulnerability, or the desire to pull away can sometimes show up between us. When they do, we can pay attention to them with curiosity rather than judgment. Therapy becomes not only a place to talk about relationships, but a place to experience something different within one.
WHO I WORK WITH
I work with adults and couples who want to understand themselves more deeply, especially when old experiences or relational patterns continue to affect the present.
People often come to me carrying grief or trauma, struggling in marriage or other important relationships, wrestling with anxiety or depression, or trying to understand patterns of attachment, intimacy, sexuality, or shame. I also work with individuals navigating family-of-origin wounds, significant life transitions, burnout, caregiving, and questions of faith.
I have particular experience working with missionaries, ministry leaders, and others who have lived or served cross-culturally. I understand some of the complexities that can come with transitions between cultures, reentry, loss of community or identity, ministry expectations, and the intersection of emotional and spiritual health.
You don’t need to know exactly which category your experience belongs in. Often the things that bring us to therapy are connected in ways we don’t yet understand.
Education & Training
I have been counseling since 2009. I received a Master’s in Counseling from Dallas Baptist University, with an emphasis on the integration of theology and psychological theory. I have specific training in Object Relations Theory and EMDR, and extensive experience working with diverse cultural backgrounds.
In addition to private practice, I serve as the Clinical Director at Oaks Counseling, a counseling ministry for missionaries and cross-cultural workers.
Ideal collaborations
Ministry Leaders
I have served in cross-cultural ministry for over a decade and understand the unique sense of isolation and pressure that often occupancies those in ministry. Having a safe and confidential place to explore your own struggles and limitations can be invaluable.
Counselors and other Helpers
Helpers need help too! The best therapists have a “PhD” in their own pain. I know how hard it is to find a strong clinician that can compassionately explore sophisticated defenses to vulnerability. Doing your own deep work is crucial for you to maintain your own health and practice and can help you to develop a more grounded, authentic, and ultimately more powerful approach to your personal and professional life.
Creatives (Musicians, Writers, Artists, Innovators)
“The best art comes from lacerations of the heart” - Benjamin William Hastings
I understand your work isn't just a job; it's often deeply intertwined with your identity, passion, and purpose. My counseling approach recognizes how your mental and emotional well-being profoundly impacts your creativity, and conversely, how your creative pursuits influence your overall health.
Me In a nutshell
Professionally passionate, personally chaotic —fully invested, always growing, and wildly lucky to do what I love!
If you’re wondering whether we might be a good fit, I offer a free 15-minute consultation where you can tell me a little about what brings you to therapy, ask questions, and get a sense of what working together might be like.
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