Jackie Orsetto

Jackie Orsetto works from a simple conviction: lasting change comes through safety and curiosity, not pressure. A Registered Social Worker based in Peterborough, Ontario, Jackie draws on neuroscience and evidence-based therapy to help clients understand how their nervous systems respond to stress — and how to gently reshape those patterns over time. Her training spans Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, somatic and polyvagal-informed approaches, and more, woven together with years of study in yoga, yoga nidra, reiki, and clinical aromatherapy. Science and the body’s own wisdom, in her view, are not in competition.

Jackie primarily supports adult women navigating anxiety, depression, grief, burnout, trauma, eating concerns, body image, identity shifts, and the ongoing work of building sturdier boundaries and self-trust. She pays particular attention to what constant connectivity does to the nervous system — the way that never truly powering down keeps the body in a low-grade state of alert that quietly erodes a person’s capacity to feel settled in themselves.

Sessions are calm, collaborative, and paced by the client. Jackie’s goal is that every appointment leaves something tangible behind: a skill, a shift in perspective, a moment of genuine steadiness that travels home with the person. She sees clients in person in Peterborough and online throughout Ontario.