therapy
therapy is amazing. I’m so glad you are here!
I have over 15 years of experience and training as a psychotherapist, and I have been licensed as a clinical psychologist since 2016. My work is grounded in respect, compassion, transparency, safety, and collaboration with and for my clients. I am strongly aligned with the understandings and teachings of liberation psychology.
I was a psychologist for several years at the University of Pennsylvania’s Counseling & Psychological Services, serving a diverse student body. I led and directed our Eating Concerns Team, was a member of our sexual trauma treatment team, and I specialized in supporting our first generation low income students, Latine students, and other students with marginalized identities. Prior to that, I worked in a wide range of settings and hold a depth and breadth of clinical experience. I am a generalist and treat a wide range of mental health concerns.
Further, I have expertise in the areas of trauma, eating concerns, and the mental health and wellness of those with marginalized identities. I am especially committed to therapy for women and trans people of color as well as mental health support for therapists, healers, activists, and artists. I provide couples therapy and have training in The Gottman Method (Level 2) & Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.
I am an integrationist, and I am importantly decolonial, relational, trauma informed, and strengths based in my work. As a clinical psychologist, I have very strong training and experience in effective treatments that will help you feel better, gain insight, cope, and change patterns. I also understand their significant limitations given the systemic issues in our field. I will never pathologize you, and will affirm and honor all of who you are in our work together.
Dr. Jeannine is able to provide teletherapy in PA, NY, and most US states.
Please see below to learn about her specialties and areas of focus.
therapy specialities,
areas of focus, & approach
Check out this video to hear from Dr. Jeannine and/or read more below.
eating &
body image concerns
For several years, Dr. Jeannine was the leader and director of the Eating Concerns Team at Penn Wellness, a diverse and interdisciplinary team of professionals treating students with eating concerns at the University of Pennsylvania. She has presented broadly on her work treating eating concerns from an anti-oppressive and intersectional foundation, and has even been featured on NPR Code Switch (Pretty Hurts, January 2019). She is an expert in the field and is deeply committed to supporting people who are widely underserved in treatment, including BBIPOC, Queer and Trans people, and those from lower income backgrounds.
healing from trauma
Dr. Jeannine specializes in trauma recovery and has worked with survivors of trauma for nearly 20 years. Grounded in social justice, she understands that oppression also causes trauma. She is committed to helping people heal from all forms of trauma, including complex trauma, and centers survivors. She has been invited to speak at trauma symposiums, train faculty and administrators at Penn in supporting student survivors of interpersonal violence, and even to speak at the University of Pennsylvania’s student organized Take Back the Night in April 2022.
She takes an integrative and embodiment centered approach to trauma work, and combines effective approaches to treatment that work in order to address a wide range of trauma related concerns. As a creative arts therapist, she is skilled at incorporating other modalities for healing, including nonverbal expression and embodiment focused approaches.
relationship / couples therapy
Dr. Jeannine’s approach to treating couples is integrative: it is trauma informed, attachment focused, and relational. Like her approach to individual therapy, it is also rooted in values of liberation, healing, and empowerment. And she also loves doing couples/relationship work!
She has engaged in training in The Gottman Method (Level 2 Trained) and in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and integrates these evidence based frameworks into her work with couples. Therapy can help with understanding the patterns that are coming up in your relationship and the attachment or trauma wounds that may be getting activated, as well as increase connection and intimacy, and bolster support in times of stress or hardship. Therapy also helps individuals express and communicate their feelings and needs in safer and healthier ways. In therapy, you can work to heal the hurts in your relationship and strengthen the bond, safety, and trust with your partner.
Dr. Jeannine is LGBTQ+ and Poly/ENM affirming.
therapy for
women of color
As a woman of color, Dr. Jeannine is committed to and passionate about the healing of other women and female aligned/femme of center BIPOC. She deeply understands the forces that make us feel unworthy and not good enough, and the ways in which the world harmfully neglects to honor our needs, safety, dignity, and wholeness. With the right therapist, your therapy can become a transformative space for empowerment, healing, and self-love, as reclamation and resistance. Explaining the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, and immigration experience is not something you will have to do here. As a non-Black WOC, Dr. Jeannine is committed to ongoing anti-racist work, including dismantling anti-Blackness and colorism.
commitment to serving
marginalized individuals
As a person with multiple marginalized identities who has worked with communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and those with other marginalized identities for her entire career, Dr. Jeannine understands the urgency of liberatory mental health care. We need services that are equitable and decolonial, that understand how oppression causes trauma, and that work to ameliorate the ways in which the field has been harmful to marginalized communities. She is strongly committed to serving and supporting individuals with marginalized identities, and will always advocate for our field to do better. She has often been invited to speak on these very topics and has educated therapists in training on these issues as well.
Dr. Jeannine was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article speaking to the some of the ways in which oppression causes harm to the Latine community, and how this is intensified especially during the COVID-19 pandemic: Legado de los Líderes, March 2021. In November 2023, she was also featured in the APA Monitor on Psychology, speaking about her work with and advocacy for the immigrant and refugee communities.
areas
of focus
There are areas that Dr. Jeannine focuses on in her practice and some areas that she does not. Part of the purpose of a consultation is to see if Dr. Jeannine would be a good fit for your needs and goals, and she will ask you questions about your history and present concerns to determine this.
*Dr. Jeannine serves those 18+
Trauma
Eating and body image concerns
Family issues, relationship concerns, attachment concerns
Depression and mood
Anxiety
Complex trauma
Panic Attacks
Life transitions, adjustment
Grief & loss, complex grief
Gender and Sexuality
Adult children of parents with substance use issues
Couples & relationship support
Healing after family estrangement
College/grad school/career related concerns
Internalized oppression & “imposter syndrome”
Mental health and wellness of BBIPOC
BBIWOC mental health and wellness
Latine mental health
Queer & Trans affirming, LGBTQ+ wellness, QTBIPOC mental health
Therapy for therapists & other healthcare providers
Support for activists; burnout
Supporting those from First Generation/Low Income backgrounds (in higher ed, academia, careers, etc.)
Immigration (etc.) related stress and trauma
First generation/children of immigrants’ mental health; acculturation stress
Poly and ENM affirming
Vegan affirming
Fat affirming
Neurodivergent affirming
other therapeutic services
groups & healing spaces
At this time, Metztli is not offering any groups or healing spaces.
Please check back to see our offerings in the near future!
