Jessica McCarty

MS, LPC

Email: jessica@refugecounseling.com

Phone: 208-960-7165

As a counselor, I offer a safe space for you to feel known in your pain and current experiences. I am passionate about walking with people through their stories or memories that hold wounds, as they better understand it in light of God’s redemptive story towards healing. And I believe we weren’t meant to endure difficult seasons alone. 

I find it an honor to work with adults of all ages, as well as adolescents. I offer a compassionate presence to explore a wide range of needs such as traumatic experiences and PTSD, relationship brokenness, depression, chronic pain, and life transitions. My approach is empathic, nonjudgmental, and flexible to your needs. 

I approach counseling from a trauma-informed, attachment, and somatic lens and am trained in EMDR. With teens, I also utilize Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) approaches. I am glad you are here!

Personal Interests

I love time with my husband and 3 kids. We have been married 12 years and have been Idahoans since college. I enjoy camping trips, a good book or Starbucks drink, trips to Alaska to visit family, and connecting with our loved ones.

Qualifications

• Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Idaho

• Master of Science in Counseling, Northwest Nazarene University, 2014

• Trained in EMDR

• Additional specialized training in trauma, attachment and internal family systems, and adolescent suicide risk and mental health

• Specialized training in EMDR with children and adolescents

Specialties

• Developmental and complex trauma

• Attachment/relational wounds

• EMDR