Hi, I’m Jaclyn Borgia

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.

I'm Jaclyn. A licensed therapist for women in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A coach for women 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.