About
Finding a therapist when you're already running on empty is its own kind of exhausting. You need someone who actually gets it, and you need to know that your therapist is the right fit before you spend another ounce of energy.
I'm Jasmine McMeeking (she/her), a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist based in Los Angeles. I work with queer partnerships, interracial couples, and partners in ENM/CNM relationships who are navigating major life transitions. I also love supporting individuals whose hard-won careers have become the very thing burning them out. My philosophy is that is that real change happens through connection. It’s not about having the right answers at the beginning. The main goal is to help build a relationship with yourself - or with someone else - that can hold the truth of who you actually are.
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I became a therapist because I kept watching highly ambitious people work themselves into the ground in silence. Today I see partners who no longer want to hide their fears from each other, and people who tried harder and harder until they broke under the weight of it. I work with the ones who are done with that strategy.
Clinically, I work from Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), Relational Gestalt, and Expressive Arts approaches.
For couples, the work looks like learning to see each other as teammates. We work to move from hiding fears to saying them out loud. Practice fighting in ways that bring clarity instead of causing damage. Build confidence in a relationship even when it doesn't look like anyone else's.
For individuals, it looks like developing self-compassion. We’ll utilize tools to help you practice regulating your nervous system, so that you spend less time living in fight-or-flight mode. Often a goal of therapy is building a life that doesn't require burning out to feel worthy.
My style is casual and direct. You're not performing for me, and I'm not performing for you. Healing happens when you can relax enough to be honest about how scared you are, how tired you are, how much you don't have figured out yet. That takes a space that's safe, not performative.
Many clients tell me therapy with me feels like talking to a friend who actually listens. I'm not your friend though — I'm your therapist, and I believe healing happens when our full humanity is welcomed in the therapeutic space, not managed.
Where do you want to start?
Couples Therapy
For partners navigating the shift into parenthood and other major life transitions.
Individual Therapy
For individuals stretched thin by work, identity pressure, and the cost of keeping it all together.
Ready to Start?
If you're a couple terrified about what becoming parents will do to your relationship, or if you're an individual so burned out you don't recognize yourself anymore, you don't have to keep carrying this alone.
Schedule your free 15-minute consultation and we'll talk about whether this is a good fit. Or learn more about couples therapy or burnout therapy to see if this resonates.
You deserve support that doesn't require you to have it all figured out first. You deserve space to be imperfect, scared, and human while you figure out what comes next.
I'm here when you're ready.
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