Our Team

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Jessica Slicer, LiCSW & practice owner

Jessica is a licensed clinical social worker, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga facilitator, Somatic Experiencing therapist, and EMDRIA Certified Therapist™. Originally from a small town in Wisconsin, she always had a deep curiosity in other cultures, which led her to pursue studies in Denmark, Ecuador, Mexico, and Ireland. After landing in Boston more than a decade ago, she served two years in AmeriCorps, inspiring her to pursue a Master of Social Work.

Professionally, Jessica trained at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, providing individual therapy and co-leading Dialectical Behavior Therapy groups. She also has experience working at McLean Hospital’s trauma-focused outpatient, residential, and partial hospitalization programs. An avid yoga, she recognizes the importance of bridging the mind-body connection. She is deeply committed to social justice and anti-oppression, and recognizes her privilege as a white, cisgender woman. Her office is located on the unceded and colonized land of the Massachusett Peoples.

Jessica enjoys traveling, spending time by the ocean, and rescuing animals, including her cats, Enzo, Ophelia, and Ozzie, and her dog, Domino.

Education
Master of Social Work, Boston College Graduate Certificate in International Conflict Resolution, University of Massachusetts-BostonBachelor of Arts in International Relations with Certificates in European Studies and Global Cultures, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Trainings & Certifications
EMDRIA Certified Therapist™
Advanced Training: Somatic Experiencing International
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator
Somatic EMDR: The Embody Lab
Cognitive Processing Therapy Certified Provider
Trainings in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy
In progress: 200 YTT: Soma Yoga
Reiki Level II: Reiki Boston

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Francesca EMILIA, Clinical Social Work Intern

Francesca is a Master of Social Work candidate focused on trauma recovery. She works with individuals who experience the effects of trauma in daily life, including chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, disconnection, and feeling stuck in survival mode. Her work focuses on helping the body feel safer so healing can move beyond insight and become something felt and integrated over time.

Francesca has been teaching yoga since age 19, with an emphasis on embodiment, nervous system regulation, and restoring choice and agency. Her experience teaching trauma-informed yoga in carceral settings and with people in addiction recovery has shaped her understanding of safety, pacing, trust, and power in the healing process.

As a Reiki Master and Triple Vagal Method™ practitioner, Francesca integrates body-based tools that support regulation, body awareness, and self-trust. Sessions are collaborative and guided by consent, respect and choice.

Francesca works with the understanding that healing is not about pushing or fixing, but about supporting the nervous system, building capacity, and moving at a pace that allows for greater presence and engagement in life.

Education
Master of Social Work candidate, University of Kentucky
Bachelor of Business Administration in Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Trainings and Certifications
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI):
The Home for Little Wanderers
Trauma-Informed Care: The Home for Little Wanderers
Yoga Through the Lens of Trauma and Incarceration: Prison Yoga Project
Holistic Health & Life Coach: Health Coach Institute
Reiki Master: Anthe Kelley at Akasha Yoga Studio & Nicole Ward at Prism Light Healing
Triple Vagal Method™: Integrated Somatic Institute
Healing Yoga Teacher Training: Padme Physical Therapy
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training: Yoga Renew

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Sarah Ehrich, clinical Social work intern

Sarah is a social work intern offering trauma-informed, person-centered therapy for teens and adults. Her approach is eclectic and collaborative, integrating talk therapy with somatic, mindful, relational, and creative practices. Sarah’s approach centers nervous system regulation, attunement, and the restoration of embodied safety, creating space for new insight and patterns to emerge. She supports clients in reconnecting with self-trust and an authentic sense of purpose, moving at a pace that feels respectful and sustainable.

Before pursuing social work, Sarah spent over a decade as an educator, advisor, and creative practitioner in higher education and community-based settings. She has worked closely with youth and adults from diverse backgrounds and brings a strong foundation in humanizing, care-based, and anti-oppressive practice—where curiosity, compassion, and deep listening guide her work.

When she’s not in session, Sarah enjoys walking her dog in the woods, experimenting with glaze combinations at a ceramics studio, and learning Qi Gong. She finds grounding and meaning in small, regular practices that connect mind, body, and community, and believes healing often grows from these same places.

Education
Master of Social Work candidate, University of Kentucky
CAGS, Language & Literacy Education, Boston University
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), Emerson College
BA, Psychology, Brandeis University

Focus Areas & Experience
Trauma-informed, person-centered care
Integrative talk therapy with somatic and creative approaches
Nervous system regulation and embodied awareness
Teens, young adults, and adults
Anxiety, chronic pain, life transitions, relational and intergenerational trauma
Anti-oppressive, autonomy-centered practice
Extensive experience supporting diverse, first-generation and multilingual communities