Jessica Renner (she/her)

Jessica Renner is CEO and founder of Acorn & Oak Counseling PLLC. She is a  licensed clinical professional counselor in Chicago IL; working with adults and youth to provide treatment to those struggling with trauma impacts; from those who have used violence against others and those who have had violence used against them. Her clinical approach is to use isomorphic and integrative therapies to treat them as a whole human being wherever they are on their path. She obtained her bachelors of science from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, then graduated from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology with her Master’s in Forensic Psychology in 2010. After graduate school, she worked in a variety of contexts including community mental health, minimum security prison, and private practice. She is passionate about how we can be doing a better job at preventing violence before it has harmful consequences and impact in our communities from a decolonized perspective. She most recently transitioned from working at Center of Contextual Change in Skokie, IL where she trained under Mary Jo Barrett and Anita Mandley. She has created a primary prevention protocol for early identification and intervention for sexualized behaviors in youth in which she has published a white paper identifying the problem and potential solutions for preventing child sexual abuse.  As an intuitive empath she has had many years working on her personal and therapeutic journey to understand her gifts and empowerments in her life. She describes her life purpose as wanting to use her creative ambition and compassion to help others to align with their true authentic nature in order to live their happiest and healthiest life. Her life mantra is: “Everything in life has led me to this exact moment. There have been many teachers both from pain and love which have helped me cultivate my inner wisdom and to each of them I am most grateful. May I too be of great benefit to all that cross my path.