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Jess collaborates with couples and individual partners who have been impacted by problematic sexual behavior, sex addiction, porn addiction, and repeated infidelity and betrayal. She helps her clients rebuild trust and a healthier vision for their partnership and themselves, working toward sexual, relational, and personal wellness and integrity. Working from a humanistic and strengths-based lens, Jess employs an eclectic approach that is trauma- and neuroscience-informed and draws from Acceptance and Commitment, Cognitive Behavioral, Narrative, and Psychodynamic therapies. As a certified yoga instructor and nature enthusiast Jess also loves to bring movement and mindfulness into her work to help her clients build healthier relationships with their bodies and minds. Her clients explore their underlying needs, where unmet and unexpressed needs lead to problematic behaviors, motivation to change those behaviors, and core values, visions, and goals to guide them toward a more fulfilling future.
Jess holds an MA in Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine from Boston University School of Medicine, has passed the National Clinical Mental Health Counselor exam (NCMHCE), and is a 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with the National Yoga Alliance. She comes to the psychotherapy field after a rewarding career as an organizational consultant. Her experience helping non-profit leaders identify needs and collaborate on shared visions, values, and goals has been instrumental in her work with couples.
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BPB Counseling welcomes Therapist Jess Benedetto for Couples
Announcing Jess Benedetto's joining of our team excites BPB Counseling. Years of expertise guiding couples through the complexity of relationships—especially those impacted by dishonesty, betrayal, and infidelity— Jess is a very skilled couples therapist. Jess specializes in helping couples through the challenging but transforming process of healing, rebuilding, and reconnecting, having a great awareness of the emotional anguish that can result from betrayed trust.
Although Jess Benedetto provides therapy for various kinds of relationship issues, she focuses especially on helping couples who have gone through infidelity—including those dealing with ongoing betrayals. She addresses the underlying wounds causing marital conflict using an integrative and disciplined therapeutic approach including trauma-informed treatment, The Gottman Method, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).
Her work mostly consists in guiding couples toward a deeper, more safe link, in rebuilding emotional and physical trust, and in developing better communication habits. Jess holds that when both couples are dedicated to the process, healing is possible even in the face of betrayal. By means of her work, she guides couples toward the underlying causes of infidelity, helps them process difficult emotions, and creates new relational patterns encouraging honesty, safety, and connection.
Couples can freely share their worries, get understanding of their relational dynamics, and acquire practical methods to rebuild intimacy and partnership in Jess's nonjudging, loving environment. Her approach is kind but direct, mixing empathy with the disciplined direction required to produce significant transformation. Jess provides the knowledge and encouragement required to help a couple negotiate this challenging road whether they are trying to mend their relationship or decide what direction forward is best.
It gives great pride to BPB Counseling to have Jess on our team. She is welcoming couples therapy new clients right now. Setting up a session with Jess is the first step toward healing if you and your spouse are experiencing the consequences of dishonesty or betrayal and are seeking a qualified expert to assist you rebuild trust go proceed.
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