Jessica Schulman Edelstein LMFT, ATR, CDP

05/11/2025

05/04/2025

Are you ready for summer family together time? 🥰 The difference between making calm and loving memories and having unrest, anxiety & overwhelm, is truly understanding & respecting each other’s needs and brain processing style. Contact me now to make a plan for summer life stage help and tools to navigate your parenting, adulting, aging or grieving challenges.🌷

01/13/2025

If you or your family need professional, genuine, creative, and caring mental health support, please reach out by filling out the contact page on my website. If I am not the right fit for your needs right now, I will help you find the best possible resource that can help.
–Jessica 🌷

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01/12/2025

Altadena & Palisades. Both incredible deeply historic family communities. My heart lies between and with you. 😔

Written by a Pacific Palisades high school teacher 💔

It's too much, it's too sad...We watch online, we see pictures and videos, but our brains can't process it all because it's too big. We say we don't have the language for it, and we don't, but the word we keep returning to is "Gone." Childhood homes...gone. Family houses...gone. Huge and intricate mansions, sweet mid-century moderns, Spanish and Craftsman and bungalows... gonegonegone.
And it isn't just the homes, although those hurt the most. It's everything else...the schools and the shops...the churches and offices and markets. The library...the LIBRARY. And the park and the ballfields and the benches and trees...so many trees in our beautiful home town. Everything burned and blackened, smoldering and broken...Even the sidewalks are buckling. We are trying to understand the absolute Gone-ness of the Palisades, but we can't. Our minds can't stretch that wide...
And also, our hearts are breaking over and over. Even if, like me, you didn't lose a home today, we love SO many people who did and we don't know what to do about all this pain and loss and confusion and fear. Some of the people we love most in the world are homeless tonight and we want to pull them away from this loss and comfort them and change what happened but we also know that we can't so we clutch ourselves and cry with our friends or we are quiet next to them because it's hard to know how to best love people who have lost so much.
Everyone is very clear that if they got their families and pets out safely, the most important thing got handled. But still...Inside each of these vanished houses were objects of significance and enchantment. There were letters and paintings, books and necklaces, things of beauty and emotion that had to be left behind, and these things are little ghosts now that will follow their people for the rest of their lives and will glimmer in their memories every now and then. Things sometimes have much more than mass...they can also have magic and a little of that may endure but much of it is...gone.
The truth, for me anyway, is that this Palisades life of ours is...finished. The destruction is too great and there isn't enough left to bring it back. Truly, the town will be rebuilt, there will be shops again and a library, but it won't be the same...There's too much loss and so much sadness...Some things, you can't come back from. This is a different place now, and it may one day be wonderful, but today, it's a griefscape.
I'm so, so sorry, and so, so sad. For everyone who lost their homes and the stories that happened among those walls and for the rest of us who grew up in this place of perfect breezes and eucalyptus and safety and love...This day breaks our hearts and we are in mourning for our lovely town, now utterly Lost.

12/08/2024

If anyone you love needs help understanding their unique creative brain, reach out to help navigate the strengths & challenges of different life stages to bring more calm & joy to your day
• parenting • adulting • aging • grieving 🧠🌷

10/26/2024

📣 Come visit us in support of Art Therapy for all 🎨🧠 at The Limbic Lounge booth!

Larchmont Family Fair this Sunday,
October 27 from 12-5 PM! 🎈
Enjoy a day full of fun with a kids' bounce house zone, live music, costume contest, and more!😎🌟 All are welcome—come join the fun and celebrate our community! 🎃✨
📍Larchmont Blvd between Beverly & 1st in Hollywood (We’ll be on the South end!)

08/28/2024

Back at work today, yet my heart is still with all the amazing bigs and littles connected to Comfort Zone Camp!
Another amazing weekend helping grieving kids feel and find their joy.

Comfort Zone Camp is a nonprofit bereavement organization who offers free grief camps and support for kids who've lost a parent or sibling.

08/23/2024

As kiddos head back to school, young adults head off to college, and the long days of summer give way to shorter amounts of daylight to get things done at work, don't forget that self-care is not selfish!

No matter our age, rounding the corner on the year brings new social and friend group drama, and family dynamics can get rocky. Reach out if you need support to creatively get your calm back!! 🌷

05/15/2024

So excited for this. These new & more complex emotions show up in my Art Therapy office everyday and they can be so creative and yet so difficult to live with for tweens and teens (and for many creative adults their whole life!)
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🚨make room for new emotions🚨Watch the new trailer for Disney & Pixar's Inside Out 2, only in theaters June 14! The little voices inside Riley’s...

03/26/2024

I see a lot of parents catastophising when it comes to their neurodivergent kid.

I get it. You look at your tiny child and worry about what the future looks like for them. Because right now they don’t have the skills to handle it.

But of course they don’t. They are children.

Your kid will grow each year.
They will learn.
Their brain will develop.
They will build on their current skills and learn new ones.

We can’t know what is going to happen.

But we can give our kids the best shot.
And that means prioritising connection, mental health, safety, and wellbeing. If we keep those things in mind, our kid will have a solid foundation from which to build.

No one learns well when they are overwhelmed, scared, distressed, or unsafe.

We need to accommodate our kids and their needs.
We need to respect their autonomy.
We need to give them space to go at their own speed.
We need to teach them about their brain- they deserve to be proud of it.

And then we get to marvel at their brilliance and beauty.

Yes?

Em 🌈

03/08/2024

Just as Andrew & I head out to help with another grief camp this weekend, the founder of the camp is honored for Women’s day. She is an amazing inspiration to so many!!❤️💙💚

Lynne Hughes, whose parents died when she was a child, founded Comfort Zone Camp as a way to help grieving children.

05/26/2023

So important to help kids (& adults) understand how their unique brain works! Here is a great neuro-affirming guide to understanding the amazing Autistic brain!! 🥰♾️