Staff Spotlight
Jessica Cole, Clinical Therapist Intern
We are thrilled to welcome Jessica Cole to the Mindful Life Counseling team as our newest Clinical Intern Therapist. Jessica is especially passionate about perinatal mental health, with a focus on supporting individuals through pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, and the emotional identity shifts that often accompany early parenthood. She is deeply committed to helping clients feel less alone during what can be an incredibly vulnerable and overwhelming season of life.
Her clinical interests include anxiety, depression, attachment wounds, and life transitions, particularly as they relate to identity, self-worth, and relational patterns.
Jessica approaches her work from a trauma-informed, attachment-based lens, with strong integration of Person-Centered and mindfulness-based principles. She prioritizes creating a warm, collaborative therapeutic relationship where clients feel safe to explore both current struggles and deeper emotional experiences.
Jessica is dedicated to meeting clients with curiosity and compassion, helping them make sense of their internal world while building greater emotional awareness and resilience. She values the therapeutic space as one of connection and healing, where clients can feel supported in moving toward greater stability, self-understanding, and confidence in themselves.
Robert Conte, Clinical Therapist Intern
We are thrilled to welcome Robert Cole to the Mindful Life Counseling team as our newest Clinical Intern Therapist. Robert works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and OCD, and he is passionate about supporting clients from all backgrounds and walks of life. He believes every person carries a unique story shaped by lived experience, and he approaches therapy with deep respect for the complexity each client brings into the room.
His clinical work is grounded in Person-Centered, attachment-based, and psychodynamic frameworks, allowing him to support clients in both present-moment healing and deeper exploration of longstanding patterns. Robert’s approach is warm, relational, and deeply attuned, he prioritizes creating a space where clients feel safe, understood, and genuinely met where they are.
In his work, Robert helps clients move toward greater insight, emotional relief, and a stronger sense of connection to themselves and their lives. His goal is to support meaningful change while helping clients feel more grounded, empowered, and at home within themselves.
the value of working with a clinical intern
At Mindful Life, we are intentional about providing high-quality care at every level of training, which is why working with a clinical intern can be such a unique and valuable experience. Interns are not only deeply motivated and engaged, but they are also actively immersed in the most current research and best practices in the field.
Jessica receives direct, ongoing supervision from Destini Napier (Founder & Therapist), which includes weekly, in-depth supervision sessions. During this time, we engage in detailed case conceptualization, collaborate on tailored treatment approaches, and identify cutting-edge, evidence-based interventions to best support each client’s needs. In addition, she is assigned focused research projects to continuously deepen her knowledge and bring the most up-to-date therapeutic approaches into the room.
This means that when you work with an intern, you’re not just getting one clinician, you’re benefiting from a collaborative, highly intentional approach to care that integrates both fresh perspective and seasoned clinical expertise.