Trauma Healing Therapy

Using Psychosensory & Embodiment Techniques (EMDR, Havening Techniques, and Somatics)

 Providing online therapy across CA and

outdoor therapy in Oakland & Bay Area

(unceded land of the Ohlone people)

Your body, mind, and emotions are re-living the past on repeat. It feels uncontrollable, inescapable, and exhausting.

There is a path towards healing.

Trauma healing therapy:

  • Creates safety and ease in the whole self (body, mind, spirit)

  • Shifts distressing & triggering memories to “a thing of the past”

  • Alleviates bodily tension & chronic pain

  • Increases hope and sense of purpose

This work is intergenerational ancestral work. The healing does not stop with you. When we heal, our siblings heal, our parents heal, our cousins heal. Generations that have passed on and generations to come.

Trauma therapy breaks intergenerational cycles of pain and transforms them into healing.

 

Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture.

-Resmaa Menakem

 FAQs

 

  • PTSD • Trauma • Panic attacks • Anxiety • Complicated grief • Dissociative disorders • Disturbing memories • Phobias • Pain disorders • Performance anxiety • Stress reduction • Addictions • Sexual and/or Physical abuse • Body dysmorphic disorders

  • I use a variety of trauma healing techniques and modalities including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Havening, and Somatics. I also utilize Trauma-Based Play Therapy for youth. Learn more below.

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessiong (EMDR) and Havening Techniques are both psychosensory approaches that are powerful and effective treatments for trauma.

    These techniques use sensory inputs (bilateral eye movements, tapping, self-soothing touch) along with talking and visualizations to support processing and releasing information trapped in the mind and body, freeing people from disturbing images and body sensations, debilitating emotions, and restrictive beliefs. Once a traumatic memory is de-linked from the emotional and somatic content, the distressing components are removed, allowing us to navigate past events from a healed place.

    Somatics or Somatic Therapy is a body-oriented approach that places the experiences within the body as the foundational point for healing from traumatic events.

    I incorporate EMDR, Havening Techniques, and Somatic techniques into Trauma Therapy Healing to support the processing of trauma through using the wisdom of the body and neuroscience.

  • Online: I offer trauma therapy sessions online via Zoom.

    Outdoors: We can also integrate nature-based sessions into Trauma Therapy if this is accessible and of interest to you.

Hi, I’m Jess.

You deserve someone who truly sees you for you and supports you by asking the question, “what do you need in your healing journey?” and incorporating that into the therapy space. I have been on my own healing journey for quite some time and know how vulnerable it can feel to reach out for support, especially from a stranger. I meet you where you are at in this moment and we decide together what you would like therapy to look like and feel like. I utilize a radical mental health lens along with a wide range of therapy techniques to guide people in their personal healing. Learn more about me here. Learn more about my approach here.

 

Specialties & Services

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In-person and remote options for therapy.

I can provide outdoor in-person therapy in Oakland, CA and virtual therapy from across California.

 

Fill out this form to tell me a little about yourself and schedule your free 20-minute consultation.