Welcome— I'm Jessica
As a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Professional Art Therapist in BC, I know firsthand that healing from trauma, OCD, and low self-esteem requires more than just standard talk therapy. It requires a space where your mind and body can both find relief.
My intention is to offer a tender, deeply human space where you feel truly supported as you move through your healing process. Drawing on my clinical training, including EMDR and exposure work, my personal art practice, and a deep love for both counselling and art therapy, I am here to help you safely explore what keeps you stuck, build practical daily tools, and gently create a meaningful path forward. And along the way, there's always room for humour; healing doesn't have to feel heavy all the time.
About Green Glass
Green Glass Counselling & Art Therapy is based in Nelson, BC, a place I’m grateful to call home, surrounded by nature and a strong sense of community. I offer virtual counselling and virtual art therapy to clients across the province.
The name Green Glass is inspired by a favourite song of mine by Andy Shauf, as well as sea glass, how something once rough can be shaped and softened over time. It reflects my belief in transformation and the ways our experiences can be integrated into something meaningful.
My intention is to offer an anchored space where you feel supported as you move through your healing process, grounded in my training, experience, and love for counselling and art therapy.
Services Overview
I offer virtual counselling and art therapy services designed to help you reconnect, process your feelings, and grow from the comfort of your own space.
Virtual Counselling in BC
I provide clinical counselling for anxiety, self-esteem concerns, and the exhausting cycles of OCD and intrusive thoughts—helping deepen self-understanding, and create meaningful change.
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Sessions start with grounding and safety — always. So many people arrive at therapy carrying shame or secrecy about what they're bringing, and the first step toward real change is simple but not easy: acknowledging what's present and understanding that your mental health is part of you — not all of you.
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I specialize in OCD, intrusive thoughts, and anxiety, and I bring more than clinical training to this work. Living through my own OCD taught me how disorienting it is to lose the line between yourself and the noise in your head — and how much relief there is in learning that a thought is just a thought, not a fact you have to obey. My hope is to help you unhook from that noise and feel present in your own life again, using approaches including EMDR, exposure work, and IFS alongside talk therapy.
Virtual Art Therapy in BC
Through drawing, painting, and creative expression, we can access emotions that go beyond words. In a supportive and non-judgmental environment, I help you process your experiences and reconnect with your inner wisdom.​
Art has been the love of my life, long before it was part of my practice. I use it as a tool for healing, growth, and insight, because creativity isn't something we should outgrow or set aside for children. It's an invaluable part of being human.
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I love learning more about people through their art, and about art through people. There's something that happens on the page that doesn't happen in conversation alone, a kind of honesty that sneaks past our usual defences. You don't have to know what you're making, or why, for it to mean something.
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Virtual art therapy in BC lets us reach what's hard to put into words, and touch parts of ourselves that talking alone doesn't always reach. And you don't need any artistic skill to benefit from it; this isn't about making something "good." It's about connecting, or reconnecting, with your own creative source.
Approach
My approach draws from a range of methods — art therapy, EMDR, exposure work, and IFS — chosen to fit what you actually need, not a one-size-fits-all script. I work with youth and adults (13+). But more than any single method, I care about the room itself: down-to-earth, non-clinical, with space for humour and play alongside the harder stuff. Healing doesn't have to feel heavy all the time. Some of the most meaningful shifts happen when there's room to laugh, get curious, and be imperfect together.
Creative & Reflective
Art therapy and mindfulness-based practices invite exploration beyond words, helping clients access emotion, clarity, and new perspectives through creative expression, no artistic skill needed, just a willingness to get curious.
Grounded & Evidence-Based
Techniques from art therapy, EMDR, AEDP, IFS, and ACT provide structure, helping clients build awareness and develop coping tools that actually hold up in day-to-day life, not just in the session room.
Compassionate & Sensitive
All sessions are guided by trauma-informed safety, respect, and empathy, recognizing that healing happens differently for each person, through trust, curiosity, and connection, at a pace that's yours to set.
How I Support
I offer virtual counselling and virtual art therapy for youth and adults (13+) across British Columbia — supporting OCD, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and trauma.
Areas of Focus
OCD & Intrusive Thoughts
Breaking free from terrifying "what-if" loops, taboo thoughts, and the exhausting need for reassurance. Together, we work on understanding the difference between you and the disorder, so the thoughts stop feeling like facts you have to obey.
Anxiety & the Nervous System
Calming a body stuck in high alert. We target the physical toll of anxiety - a racing heart, shallow breath, chronic survival mode - not just the thoughts on top of it, so your body can learn what safety actually feels like again.
Shame & Low Self-Esteem
Untangling your true identity from what anxiety (or OCD, or trauma) tells you about who you are, so you can rebuild genuine, steady self-worth — not the fragile kind that depends on everything going right.
Trauma Stored in the Body
Processing past hurt when standard talk therapy gets stuck. We use body-aware tools, including EMDR, to safely reach and heal the physical impact of trauma — not just talk around it.
Creative Blocks & Feeling Frozen
Using art therapy to externalize and disarm overwhelming emotions when words are completely inadequate — a way in when you feel stuck, shut down, or unable to access what's actually going on inside.
Clients Welcomed
OCD, Intrusive Thoughts & Perfectionism
For those exhausted by mental loops and checking behaviours, looking to break free from the cycle.
Anxiety & Survival Mode
For anyone feeling physically overwhelmed, stuck, or frozen, ready to move out of high alert.
Youth & Adults
For those wanting to heal how past experiences still show up in the mind and body today.
A deeply affirming, down-to-earth space to explore identity and unmask.
Neurodivergent & LGBTQIA+ Individuals
For those seeking to break through emotional blocks, deepen self-expression, and reconnect with their inner wisdom — art therapy tends to be a natural fit here.
Creatives & Sensitive Souls
Themes Explored
Mind-Body Connection
Learning to decode what your anxiety or trauma feels like physically, and moving your nervous system out of fight-or-flight and into a state of safety, so regulation becomes something your body knows how to do, not just something you understand intellectually.
Externalizing the Inner World
Using painting, drawing, and creative expression to pull intrusive thoughts or heavy emotions out of your head so we can actually look at them together, from a little distance, instead of drowning in them.
Cultivating Self-Compassion
Untangling your true identity from the overwhelming, perfectionist voice of OCD, and rebuilding a stable, resilient relationship with yourself, one that doesn't collapse the moment things feel uncertain.
Actionable Coping & Relief
Developing practical, day-to-day tools to interrupt repetitive mental loops and behaviours, helping you confidently ground yourself in the present moment, so progress shows up in daily life, not just in the session room.
What to Expect
Free Consultation
A no-pressure conversation to see if we're a good fit. There are no and no; it's just a chance to ask questions and get a feel for how I work.
First Session
We'll go slow. My priority is helping you feel grounded and safe before we get into the details of what brought you here. You set the pace.
Ongoing Work
Sessions build over time, combining talk therapy, art therapy, and approaches like EMDR or exposure work as it fits. The goal isn't to erase OCD, anxiety, or intrusive thoughts entirely, but to help you stop living at their mercy, so you can be present in your own life again.