If you're an adult still untangling what you carried from your family, or a parent looking for someone who can actually see your teenager, I'm Jennifer Baldwin. I'm a Marriage and Family Therapy intern at Northwest Relationships in Tacoma, working under the supervision of Robin Beckley, LMFT, an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and I see clients age 13 and up, a wider range than most interns on this roster.

I want therapy to be a place where you feel safe enough to slow down and look at how childhood wounds still show up in adult relationships, without feeling rushed toward a tidy resolution. I work with relationships, anxiety, identity, and family-of-origin patterns, drawing on Internal Family Systems, somatic awareness, Emotionally Focused Therapy, a developmental model that looks at what stage of relational growth a person or couple is actually in, and both Structural and Bowenian family approaches. My work is affirming of gender, sexuality, and relationship diversity, meaning I don't treat any of those as something that needs fixing or explaining. I'm completing my MA at Antioch University Seattle, a program with a specific focus on relational and systemic therapy, which is a large part of why family-of-origin work is central to how I practice.

Whatever brings you in, anxiety, identity questions, relationship strain, or the slow realization that old family patterns are still running your adult life, my approach is the same: slowing down enough to see the pattern clearly, without rushing you toward a tidy resolution. Most of my caseload is adults working on exactly that, individually and as couples, since the patterns you inherit from your family tend to show up loudest in the relationship you're building now.

I'm a good fit for an adult in Tacoma or across Washington state working through anxiety, identity, or the family-of-origin patterns still shaping their relationships. I'm also a good fit for a teenager or family, since I'm one of the few intern clinicians here seeing clients under 18.

Request a session or start an intake form when you're ready, and if you're a parent wondering how a first session with a 13-year-old typically goes, send a question first and I'm glad to walk you through it.