About Us
Inspired Life Counseling grew out of Jessica Darling's desire to leave her job and start her own private practice. She always had big ideas and passionate opinions about ways to improve the private practice she worked for, but because she wasn't in charge she had to start her own business. Jessica never set out on a journey to own a business and become an employer, she set out on a path to become a healing therapist and accidentally became an entrepreneur.
Over time, she added one new therapist, then another. When associates got licensed they chose to stay on, leading for Jessica to hire another associate. Today, she has two locations: Redding and Chico, and a few clinicians who work 100% remotely with clients all over California. Here are a few tenets Jessica is passionate about when it comes to Inspired Life Counseling:
Over time, she added one new therapist, then another. When associates got licensed they chose to stay on, leading for Jessica to hire another associate. Today, she has two locations: Redding and Chico, and a few clinicians who work 100% remotely with clients all over California. Here are a few tenets Jessica is passionate about when it comes to Inspired Life Counseling:
Strengths Based & Trauma Informed
Our philosophy at Inspired Life Counseling is that people have gotten to this point in their lives because they've done a good job at a lot of things. They have persevered through tough times before today, and today they have decided to learn new ways and to release some of the pain and some of the ways they might have sabotaged themselves. They want to learn how to choose different partners or how to increase their confidence so they can shoot higher and go farther. Regardless of the reason they're reaching out, it took strength to get here and strength to ask for help.
Strength-based therapy means that we are not looking at our clients like they're broken people in need of mending. It means we notice and acknowledge all the strengths they already bring into the room while we help them explore the healing that needs to take place.
Trauma-informed means that we can also see how and why a person may have made some choices they aren't proud of. The situations we've been in during our lives have influenced the way we see ourselves as safe or unsafe, and that sometimes these situations or our perception of safety has created habits, ways of thinking, relationship conflict, and other things that we want help shifting. We don't see this as blame, but as a target toward helping a person heal from the original pain while also learning new ways of seeing themselves and the world while learning new ways of interacting with themselves and others so relationships improve.
Strength-based therapy means that we are not looking at our clients like they're broken people in need of mending. It means we notice and acknowledge all the strengths they already bring into the room while we help them explore the healing that needs to take place.
Trauma-informed means that we can also see how and why a person may have made some choices they aren't proud of. The situations we've been in during our lives have influenced the way we see ourselves as safe or unsafe, and that sometimes these situations or our perception of safety has created habits, ways of thinking, relationship conflict, and other things that we want help shifting. We don't see this as blame, but as a target toward helping a person heal from the original pain while also learning new ways of seeing themselves and the world while learning new ways of interacting with themselves and others so relationships improve.