Testimonial:
"With all my experience, both professionally and personally, I am struck by Jassy’s unique ability to balance challenge and support; to be fully present and compassionate while encouraging deep reflection and soul searching; to guide without directing.  She very naturally creates an atmosphere of safety where even the most painful emotions or awkward issues can be touched, explored, penetrated…perhaps just spoken for the first time.  She has an uncanny ability to strip through distractions and diversions to elicit the essential truth." R.P. (Melrose, MA)


Jassy Timberlake, M.Ed., LMFT is an AASECT Board Certified Sex Therapist and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in individual and couples therapy.  She maintains a private practice in Northampton, MA and is also Sexual Health Consultant to M.I.T's Center for Health Promotion and Wellness.  She is a member of the Board of the Massachusetts Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.  Jassy also has an online therapy practice.

Education:
Jassy is a Masters level clinician with an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Marriage and Family Therapy. Her license number is 1259 and her credentials can be verified at The Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health Providers. 

Professional Memberships:

• Clinical Member - American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy
• Certified Member - American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists 
  
• Member - International Society for Mental Health Online
• Member - International Federation for Gender Education
• Member - Transgender American Veterans Association
• Member - World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Jassy is Welsh, born in Swansea, South Wales, UK, and moved to the USA in 1984.  Her leisure time activities include activism around feminist and civil rights issues, a passionate interest in sustainable communities and Peak Oil, walking, reading, playing music really loudly, spending time with friends and family (for more details, see Jassy's blog "Other Side of the Couch" at www.JassyTimberlake.blogspot.com ), and playing the piano less often than she would like.

Testimonial:
"Jassy Timberlake has the critical skills of a trained professional. This
entails taking a specific and detailed medical and psychological history of
her clients that she keeps at her fingertips throughout each session and
refers to them as needed. This professionalism is perfectly balanced by her
empathy for her clients; it is palpable, and is an important part of her
skills. As a client, I was never in doubt whether Jassy knew what I was
feeling. Her skills in directing her clients through the minefields of
their therapy are evident as she guides them in careful steps. She is
flexible in her treatments, and has an extensive palette of therapies to
draw from, none of which she relies on exclusively. This allows her a depth
and flexibility of treatment that bodes well for her clients' progress. Her
language and directions are always crystal clear, as are her boundaries as a
therapist. She keeps her promises and guides her clients gently, yet firmly." T.B. (JP, MA)