YES!  You’ve made the invigorating decision to live an EMBODIED life.  Read below for information about how to GET STARTED.

1. Phone Consultation: During your FREE 30 minute phone consultation I will gain a brief understanding of who you are and why you are seeking therapy. Based on your needs and my areas of specialization, we'll decide if I'm the right Therapist for you.  If so, we’ll schedule your first appointment. If not, I will make an appropriate referral(s).

2. Paperwork: Once we’ve scheduled your appointment, you will receive a link from my online booking provider, SimplePractice.com. Prior to your first session you are required to review, complete, and sign the documents within that link including a brief questionnaire, informed consent, limits of confidentiality, policies, procedures, cancellation policy, and your secured billing information.  This helps us save time during your first session. For more information regarding payment, please click here.  PLEASE NOTE I will not be able to see you until and unless your paperwork is signed and complete. I’ve received feedback that this process is relatively seamless and takes approximately 10-15 minutes.

3. First Three Sessions:

Session 1: We’ll spend the first 10 minutes verbally reviewing the paperwork you completed online including the brief questionnaire, informed consent, limits of confidentiality, policies, procedures, cancellation policy, and your secured billing information. Thereafter, I will hear from you again about why you are seeking therapy and what you’re hoping to gain from the process. Because I offer an integrative approach to psychotherapy, which includes your body, mind, and spirit, I will teach you basic resourcing techniques that will support you staying grounded and present during your therapeutic journey.  I will also inquire about your culture and faith so that we can include those very important elements about who you are in our work together.

Session 2: In the second session I will conduct a "Primary Scenario," which is a relational genogram I utilize from Integrative Body Psychotherapy that allows us to explore the road your family has paved multi-generationally, and your unique life journey until now.  This process will help us identify where you come from and who you are, your dynamic attachment/relational style, and your "basic fault," which is essentially the unconscious lie you've been telling yourself that gets in your way, keeps you stuck, and is more than likely a large part of the reason you're seeking therapy now. 

Session 3: In the third session we’ll continue to explore your Primary Scenario and make connections and interpretations about the generational patterns and themes from yester(years) that are holding you back today.  Once the groundwork has been laid and your "ah-ha" moments have been revealed we'll get to work!

Ongoing Therapy / How it Works: Therapy with a psychodynamic foundation, which is what I offer, is meant to be consistent and long-term. Ideally, we’ll meet a frequency of once to twice a week for a duration of one to two years. Through therapy you can expect to learn resourcing techniques that will enable you to feel grounded, present, and regulated.  You will expand your sense of self, fine-tune your intuition, release blocks that keep you stuck, increase your capacity to be discerning and make decisions, and breathe into your embodied self.

My mission as your Therapist is to guide you to live an embodied life.  The word embodied means: to give BODY to a SPIRIT. Living an embodied life means your spirit is experiencing it’s fullest expression of energetic aliveness, in it’s container, your body.  It’s a feeling!  Through somatic, or body-based psychotherapy, you can expect to learn resourcing techniques that will enable you to feel grounded, present, and regulated.  You will enjoy reduced anxiety, decreased depression, increased resilience.  You'll gain awareness of who you are and what you want.  You'll fine-tune your intuition, release blocks that keep you stuck, and breathe vitality into your embodied self. 

Jessica Hansen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and specializes in somatic psychotherapeutic modalities that draw awareness to your energy and nervous system. Jessica is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Integrative Body Psychotherapist, and Master Pilates Practitioner.