You Don’t Have to Keep Pretending You’re Fine
Therapy for feeling like you’re too much and never enough.
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
Are you so focused on doing everything right that you’ve forgotten how to just be together? Couples therapy is where you stop performing and start connecting.
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.
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
– Maya Angelou
Meet Jessica
Most of us only see the butterfly, not what it took to get there. I’m Jessica Batres, a Registered Social Worker in Ontario, and I work with people in the middle of that change: exhausted from being the strong one, anxious about letting someone down or quietly wondering who they’d be without everyone’s expectations.
Raíces means “roots” in Spanish, and it’s the heart of this practice. Where you come from, whether that’s family, culture or the story you have carried, can become your strength instead of your burden. You don’t have to change alone.
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.
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…