Jess Kuttner is a Registered Yoga Teacher and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. Jess completed her yoga teacher training at Karuna in Northampton and holds an MSW from Simmons School of Social Work. While in graduate school Jess was given Amy Weintraub’s book “Yoga for Depression” which sparked her interest in the applications of yoga in psychotherapy. Jess believes deeply in the power of yoga to offer a pathway towards healing. Jess has received training on yoga therapy at Kripalu where she studied with Amy Weintraub, Bo Forbes, and Gary Kraftsow. Additionally, Jess has completed trainings on yoga and the treatment of trauma at the Trauma Center in Brookline, and applications of yoga in clinical social work through B.U. School of Social Work.
Jess has over 12 years of experience in the counseling field. She has worked in a diverse range of settings including a domestic violence shelter, an inpatient adolescent psychiatry unit, public schools, a therapeutic boarding school for troubled adolescents, and outpatient psychotherapy centers. Jess has experience treating anxiety, depression, PTSD, relationship/couples distress, parenting struggles, grief and loss, and oppositional defiant disorder. Jess starts from the belief that each client has a self that is larger than their symptoms. With compassion and patience, Jess helps clients identify their strengths and to move through whatever pain has brought them to counseling in order to meet their goals. Jess uses a variety of counseling techniques, such as: mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and dialectal behavior therapy. Most recently Jess developed a practice at a local therapeutic school offering yoga psychotherapy sessions for students. These sessions combined traditional psychotherapy methods with breathing techniques, guided relaxation and restorative yoga postures.
Jess is very excited to be offering psychotherapy and yoga psychotherapy sessions at Shelburne Falls Yoga. She accepts many different insurance plans for sessions. Please contact Jess if you are interested in a free phone consultation to decide if working with Jess would be beneficial for you. jkuttner@gmail.com (413)522-9732
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