My name is Jasmine Cepeda, LCSW.
With over 13 years of clinical experience, my therapeutic approach is deeply rooted in helping folks process difficult transitions and painful emotions.
Whether you're carrying unresolved wounds from the past, feeling distressed by your current relationships, or experiencing social or existential dread, I’m here to help you make sense of your experience.

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My therapeutic practice focuses on helping people understand and work with emotional and relational patterns that continue to show up in present life. In therapy, we work with what is happening in the present moment, emotionally, physically, relationally, and environmentally, so these patterns can begin to shift into a more grounded and integrated sense of self.

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My practice is called “Better Now” because I believe change is not something you wait for, it is something that can begin in the present moment, in how you relate to your present experience, even while carrying the impact of the past, and building a healthier future.​​​​

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My main specializations are:
1. Grief & Loss: helping you move through losses of all kinds, including the passing of a loved one, (including pet loss), the end of a relationship (including break-up or divorce), the loss of a job or role, the difficulty of a "lost childhood" due to trauma or other stressors, living with chronic illness or pain, climate anxiety, earth-grief, death-anxiety, & existential anxiety/dread.

2. Rebuilding Self-Worth & Self-Esteem After Trauma: supporting you in reclaiming your self-compassion, confidence, and identity following traumatic, overwhelming, or destabilizing experiences of suffering, including relationship rupture or societal betrayal.

3. Emotional regulation skills: helping you increase your capacity to tolerate and move through difficult emotional states without becoming overwhelmed, shutting down, or becoming self-critical, while incorporating mindfulness practices and connection with nature to support grounding, presence, and restoration.

4. Dream Work: supporting you in exploring and processing your dreams, a timeless and deeply human form of knowing and meaning-making that has existed across cultures and throughout history.

 

My therapeutic approach is eclectic and highly personalized.
I tailor my services to each person's unique needs and goals, integrating the following modalities:

1. Emotion-Focused & Psychodynamic Therapy: to explore your emotional world, build emotional regulation skills, and explore relational patterns

2. Somatic- /Mindfulness-/Nature-Based therapy: to help you stay grounded, feel safe,
   and be present in your body, as well as, utilize nature as a restorative resource

3. Jungian-informed Dream Work: for dream interpretation.
    

In addition, my work is trauma-informed, meaning your past experiences of harm, whether personal or shaped by broader social and economic conditions, are met with care, curiosity, and respect. I also work as a climate-aware therapist, meaning I incorporate the environmental crisis into my clinical perspective, along with the broader social, cultural, and emotional environments that shape people’s lives, including forms of literal and symbolic “pollution” that impact wellbeing.

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Lastly, as a native New Yorker, child of immigrants, and first-generation Latina,
I bring a culturally responsive and anti-oppressive approach to therapy that honors Indigenous perspectives, non-linear ways of knowing, and diverse cultural
approaches to healing and transformation.

Outside of therapy, I find joy and balance through yoga and meditation,
practices that gently inform and enrich my clinical work.​​

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If you're curious about working together, I warmly invite you to reach out
and make an appointment.

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I provide telehealth therapy to clients in New York, New Jersey, and Colorado, using the secure, HIPAA-compliant platform Doxy. This allows us to meet consistently and conveniently, without compromising the quality, connection, or depth of care.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please visit the sections below.​​