Hi, I’m Jaclyn Borgia
I'm Jaclyn, a Licensed Professional Counselor and the Sassy Shrink, which means you get a therapist with serious clinical training and absolutely no interest in making you sit through anything boring. I work with women who look completely put-together on the outside and are quietly running on empty underneath. The high achievers. The responsible ones. The woman everyone else leans on, who isn't quite sure who's holding her up. If you've spent your whole life being the strong one and you're ready to find out who you are beneath all that competence, you're in the right place.
I specialize in the patterns that tend to run underneath a successful life: perfectionism, imposter syndrome, the mother wound, shame, and the boundaries nobody ever told you that you were allowed to have. My work is helping you see where these came from, why they made complete sense at the time, and how to finally set them down without your whole world tipping over.
Here's how we can actually work together. I offer online therapy for women living in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, warm, confidential, and genuinely judgment-free. For counseling clients, I can also provide an ESA letter, the legal documentation that lets your emotional support animal stay right by your side at home and when you travel. And for women anywhere in the world who already know their pain points and their attachment style and are ready to put new skills into real practice, I offer coaching that meets you wherever you are, literally.
You don't have to have it all together to begin. You just have to be a little bit brave. And honestly, curious counts too.
You already know the feeling. The phone call where you become twelve again. The text you have rewritten four times. The Sunday dinner you will show up to anyway. The friendship you keep apologizing inside of.
I bring two things to this work that rarely come together: real clinical training and real lived experience. The training tells me where the work needs to go. The experience tells me how to meet you when you get there. Whether you’re scared and confused, angry and resentful, desperate and motivated, I’ll meet you where you are.
The women who hire me are tired of being the most insightful person in their own therapy. The ramble has power and purpose, yet they’re looking for actionable steps, real life things to try when scared. They want someone who will not flinch, will not over-explain, and will not let them perform their way through another fifty-minute hour. With me, you’re not on stage. No performance needed here.
I see your anxiety, and I understand the wound that birthed it. I see your anger, and I recognize the festering underneath it. I see the confusion, the self-doubt, the quiet desperation for something different. I have been on your side of the room.
I am funny. I am direct. I will not pathologize you for the survival strategies you built when you needed them. I will not shame the parts of you that survived a brutal childhood.
The work is learning to show up as yourself in rooms where you have always shown up as a version. To name the voice that tells you you are too much, not enough, or about to be found out, and learn to disagree with it. To find your voice and use it. To say no. To communicate without bracing. To be heard without first earning permission.
You want to stop fighting with your partner about the chores? I will teach you how. You want to feel less triggered every time you talk to your mother? I will teach you how to regulate, hold your line, and stay rooted in yourself. You want to love her without feeling unsafe? That is what the work is for.
You will leave different. Lighter. Sharper. More yourself in the rooms where you used to disappear.
The Sassy Shrink is an embodiment of the qualities I value most: empathy, warmth, humor, and authentic connection.
When you work with me, you get someone who’s fiercely in your corner, rooting for you and the person you want to become.
Want to learn more about me and how I think? The Heard Woman on Substack is where I write about the stuff that brought you here — the people-pleasing, the anxiety, the relationships that leave you feeling invisible. Start there, see what lands, and when you're ready to go deeper, the call is waiting.
I'm Jaclyn. A licensed therapist for women in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A coach for folks already self aware, who did the therapy and want more action steps. You hire me because I see what you have learned to hide, and I will not let you keep hiding it from yourself.
When you are ready, the consult link is below. If you want more before we meet, The Heard Woman on Substack is where I write.
When you feel safe, seen, and heard — magic happens.
My hope is that you leave our sessions knowing you are loved and cared for.
My hope is that instead of running from pain, you see that you can move through it. That you are strong. That you matter.
I know how healing it is to be seen and heard. Whether you’re seeking therapy or coaching, I’d be honored to partner with you.
A little more about me…
● I am Philadelphia born and raised, which means I'm a loyal Birds fan and a cheesesteak purist with strong opinions.
● I love to laugh. In my most natural state you'll catch me content, smiling, and quietly workshopping my next truly terrible joke.
● Traveling lights me up inside. You’ll often see me in session with different backgrounds.
● I believe animals are genuinely good for the soul, which is part of why I take those ESA letters so seriously.
● I'm a new reader and currently consuming fantasy, fiction, self development and more.
● Rest is something I had to learn on purpose, not something that came naturally to me. So when I ask you to practice it, know I'm right there doing the work alongside you.