You Don’t Have to Keep Pretending You’re Fine
Therapy for high achievers navigating anxiety, exhaustion, and the pressure to always be more.
About Me
Welcome to Raíces (roots in Spanish) Flourish — where your roots become your strength, not your burden. I’m Jessica Batres, a Registered Social Worker who helps people in Ontario who look successful on the outside but feel exhausted, anxious, and guilty on the inside. If you’re caught in cycles of people-pleasing, perfectionism, or carrying the weight of everyone else’s expectations — whether that pressure comes from family, culture, or the story you’ve been telling yourself your whole life — you’re in the right place. I’m here to walk alongside you.
Individual Therapy
50 minutes
Virtual across Ontario | In-Person available in Durham Region
English | French | Spanish
Are you holding yourself to impossible standards? Feeling anxious, burnt out, or caught between who you are and who everyone expects you to be? Exhausted from people-pleasing and never feeling like you’re enough? Individual therapy is where you stop carrying it alone.
Couples Therapy
50 minutes
Virtual across Ontario | In-Person available in Durham Region
English | French | Spanish
You’re in the same house but feel miles apart. Couples therapy helps you reconnect.
What Therapy Looks Like
Wondering what therapy is really like? It’s not lying on a couch talking about your childhood. Therapy is a space where you don’t have to perform or have it all together. It’s about untangling what’s stuck and making space for who you want to become..
Resources
Articles, tools, and links to support you between sessions and beyond. Sometimes you need support outside of therapy—here are resources that might help.
Speaking Engagements & Partnerships
Healing doesn’t just happen in therapy, it happens in community. Through workshops, panels, and public speaking, I create spaces where we can learn, reflect, and grow—together.
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
– Maya Angelou
From the blog
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How to Let Go of Perfectionism?
For years, whenever a job interviewer asked, “What’s one of your faults?” my answer was ready: “I’m a perfectionist.” I had learned it was a “safe” fault — one that sounded like a strength. And honestly? In a lot of workplaces, it is rewarded. Productivity, exceeding expectations, flawless execution — these are celebrated. So we wear perfectionism like…
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What Is Burnout and How Do You Recover From It?
Burnout is your mind and body’s way of saying “I’ve had enough.” It’s the chronic exhaustion that comes from prolonged stress — the kind that leaves you feeling empty, detached, and unable to function the way you used to. It’s not just being tired. It’s running on empty with nothing left in reserve. The World Health…