Supervision for Provisionally Licensed Therapist

At Somatic Therapy, we intentionally create an environment that fosters meaningful learning and professional growth. We thoughtfully shape the supervision experience around your unique needs, strengths, and growing edges, emphasizing a balance of challenge, connection, and integration. We frequently utilize present-moment processing and bottom-up strategies to support both clinical development and personal growth.

Providing supervision and supporting new therapists' development is central to Jessica's work. She offers an open, supportive environment with clear and healthy boundaries, prioritizing your development as you discover and strengthen your own therapeutic voice. Supervision emphasizes learning from the bottom up rather than solely from the top down, with a strong somatic and nervous system-informed lens. Jessica draws from her training in Interpersonal Therapy, EMDR, EFT, PACT, Somatic Experiencing (SE), and mindfulness-based approaches to inform her supervision and feedback.

Over nearly a decade of supervising and guiding therapists through the challenges of clinical work, Jessica has developed an appreciation for an important distinction between Somatic Experiencing as a specialized approach to processing and healing trauma, and the broader practice of embodiment. While embodiment work is part of trauma healing, its applications extend well beyond trauma treatment.

We believe embodied awareness is foundational to good therapeutic work. Developing interoception (the ability to sense and understand what is happening within our bodies), increasing our capacity to be with distress, and strengthening our ability to act with intention are valuable skills for every therapist. These capacities support not only our work with clients but also our own ability to navigate everyday anxiety, depression, disconnection, and the challenges of living in an increasingly technological and cognitively driven world.

You do not need to pursue years of specialized Somatic Experiencing training to benefit from this work. We believe that developing embodied skills and a deeper understanding of the nervous system can enrich virtually any therapeutic orientation, strengthen clinical presence, and support a more integrated way of being both in and outside the therapy room.

 

Somatic Experiencing® Personal Sessions

As a Somatic Experiencing® Personal Session Provider for Beginning and Intermediate students, I am deeply committed to supporting professionals as they experience and learn Somatic Experiencing from the inside out.

This is something my teachers emphasized throughout my training in somatic and body-oriented work, and I've come to appreciate just how important it is. I aim to create a balanced and supportive space that allows for both experiencing and learning at the same time. This can be vulnerable work, but with clear intentions, resonance, and open communication, it can also be transformative — although not always magical.

I remember receiving sessions early in my own training and thinking they were supposed to be, or perhaps wanting them to be, life-changing. And while they certainly can be, I've come to understand that there is just as much to learn in what is clear and simple, in what feels challenging or doesn't quite resonate, as there is in an experience that feels profound or life-changing. All of it can offer something valuable to our learning.