Jordan Dejoie, Ph.D, LCSW

**Accepting Clients Fall 2026

At the core of who I am and how I approach therapy is the development of relationship and connection. Because of that, I think it's important that my clients have the opportunity to know a bit about me too.

My work in this field began during my undergraduate years, when I worked with high school students and their college mentors in a program aimed at improving local graduation rates for at-risk youth. The work in this program taught me something I've carried ever since: growth tends to follow connection, not the other way around. That early lesson set me on a deliberate path. After earning my bachelor's in psychology, I went on to pursue a master's in social work from the University of Pennsylvania, where I focused on the clinical treatment of psychological disorders, and trained in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics serving children and teens.

The five years that followed after earning my degree were spent in long-term residential treatment, working with children and adolescents managing anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and trauma. For the majority of those years, my focus narrowed to attachment-based treatment with latency-aged girls whose difficulties often stemmed from divorce, trauma, adoption, or grief. During this time, in addition to continuing my work as a clinician, I also had the privilege of serving as a Clinical Director, which expanded my skillset into supervising a team of therapists and overseeing the clinical integrity of the program as a whole. My final year working in residential care took me somewhere different: an outdoor adventure program for emerging adults navigating neurodivergence, including ADHD, autism, and dyslexia, often alongside anxiety or depression.

Eventually, I returned to academia to pursue my Ph.D. in clinical psychology, which I completed in May 2026. I spent the last year completing my doctoral clinical internship at the Northport VA Medical Hospital, where a new pull took shape: toward women's health, fertility, perinatal mental health, and the often tangled relationship between physical and psychological wellbeing. For me, this isn't only professional terrain. I live with PCOS, caught early thankfully, but still a crash course in how little is understood about its reach into mental health and fertility. I've navigated fertility challenges of my own, and motherhood only sharpened my sense of how alone women can feel in this space, and how scarce real support and education still are. That gap is exactly where I want to show up. I want to be in their corner as women navigate their health, their fertility, and their sense of self through it all.

WHO I WORK WITH

I'm drawn to working with women's health, including fertility, PCOS/PMOS, and the broader overlap between reproductive and mental health, alongside neurodivergent individuals, particularly women whose neurodivergence tends to go unrecognized or misread. I also offer executive functioning coaching for clients working through these challenges day to day.

HOW I WORK

I believe the relationship between therapist and client is the foundation everything else is built on. Before any technique or modality matters, I'm focused on building genuine trust and safety, that's where real change becomes possible. I don't subscribe to a single fixed approach to therapy. Every intake includes an assessment of which modality is likely to serve a client best, and I draw from a range of evidence-based methods to fit each person's needs rather than the other way around.

I have formal and advanced training in: Theraplay®, DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) Levels 1 and 2, Brainspotting, Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, including CBT-I for insomnia.