Jessica Garcia, MSW, LCSW

Pronouns: She/Her/Ella

Service Areas: Raleigh, NC & Telehealth

Availability: Limited availability for new clients

Current or past clients can sign into client portal to request a session

A young woman with dark hair, wearing a teal t-shirt and cream-colored pants, stands outdoors on a brick pathway in a wooded area with sunlight filtering through the trees.

Jessica is a bilingual (Spanish/English) Licensed Clinical Social Worker in North Carolina. Born in Querétaro, Mexico and raised in North Carolina, Jessica brings a deep understanding of cultural identity, migration, and generational experiences into her work.

As the founder of Healing Waves Therapy & Counseling, PLLC, Jessica offers culturally aware, body-centered therapy grounded in curiosity, compassion, and respect for each person’s lived experience. Her approach centers bottom-up processing, supporting clients in learning to feel and move through emotions rather than pushing them down. Jessica believes healing happens when experiences are witnessed with care, allowing the body to release survival patterns and build safety, connection, and self-trust.

Jessica specializes in working with adults navigating generational trauma, first-generation experiences, and complex family and interpersonal dynamics. Many of her clients identify as eldest daughters, high achievers, or cycle-breakers carrying guilt, responsibility, and emotional labor, often shaped by emotionally immature caregiving relationships, particularly within mother daughter dynamics. Her work emphasizes reconnecting with the body, loosening over-reliance on logic, cultivating self-compassion, and empowering clients to move from survival toward thriving.

Beyond individual therapy, Jessica is deeply committed to community healing. She facilitates women’s retreats for BIPOC women and uses social media as a creative space to foster connection, normalize conversations around mental health, and build collective healing beyond the therapy room.

In her free time, Jessica enjoys reading, yoga, boxing, caring for her plant babies, exploring new restaurants, and spending time with friends and family.

Contact Jessica

Appointment Types

  • In-person

  • Virtual

Insurance Accepted

  • BCBS

  • Aetna

  • Aetna SHP

  • UHC/Optum

  • Self-pay

Please note: Please note that Healing Waves Therapy & Counseling is not in network with Marketplace plans, Medicaid, or Medicare at this time.

Populations Served

  • Individuals ages 18+

Approaches & Certifications

  • Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based Care

  • Culturally Responsive & Identity-Affirming Therapy

  • Internal Family Systems Informed Therapy (IFS)

  • Mindfulness-Based Interventions

  • Somatic Embodiment Certified

  • Self-compassion Practices

  • Brainspotting (BSP)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

  • 200hr Yoga Teacher Training

Areas of Focus & Specialization

  • Generational and intergenerational trauma

  • First-generation experiences and identity development

  • Complex interpersonal and family dynamics

  • Mother wound and attachment-related wounds

  • Adult children of emotionally immature or unavailable caregivers

  • Anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns

  • Cultural, racial, and identity-based stressors

  • Healing from childhood trauma and relational patterns

About Jessica’s Approach

Jessica’s approach is grounded in culturally aware, body-centered therapy that prioritizes safety, connection, and lived experience. She works from a bottom-up lens, supporting clients in learning to feel and move through emotions rather than suppressing them, and in understanding how survival patterns were shaped by family, culture, and early relationships. Jessica often works with first-generation adults, eldest daughters, and individuals navigating attachment wounds and complex mother daughter dynamics who are ready to soften long-held roles of responsibility and self-sacrifice.

Through body-based practices, self-compassion, and collaborative exploration, Jessica helps clients reconnect with their bodies, build nervous system safety, and develop boundaries that feel supportive rather than rigid. She emphasizes that setting limits is an act of self-respect and care, guiding clients toward greater self-trust, emotional steadiness, and a felt sense of comfort and agency as they move from survival toward thriving.