Jessica Hansen, MFT and Somatic Psychotherapist
Hi there! My name is Jessica Hansen and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Somatic Psychotherapist. I am committed to supporting people including partners, parents, professionals, performers (athletes / artists), soldiers, veterans, LGBTQI+ affiliated, individuals with prior justice system involvement, those whom are addicted to mind or mood altering substances, individuals engaging in obsessive compulsive behaviors and/or dysfunctional relational patterns such as codependence, perfectionism, love addiction, and love avoidance to live an embodied life.
I take a psychobiological, or mind/body approach to all aspects of my treatment.
The theory behind somatic psychotherapy is that stress, distress, and trauma are the effects of dysregulation in the nervous system. When we encounter real or perceived life-threatening circumstance(s), our stress-response system secretes adrenal and stress hormones into our body to prepare us to fight, flee, freeze, feign, or fawn. Over-time a hyperactive or hypoactive stress-response due to too much stress can overwhelm the natural resiliency of our nervous system and cause it to become chronically depleted and dysregulated. The felt sense experience of a dysregulated nervous system includes anxiety, depression, confusion, emotional reactivity, chronic fatigue, sleep deprivation, emotional pain, physical pain, isolation, obsessive compulsive behaviors, dysfunctional relational patterns, and spiritual withdrawal.
Integrative, or somatic psychotherapy helps rebalance our nervous symptom and restore its natural state of resiliency, vitality, and flow.
With my clinical, somatic, and professional background, my approach encourages reflecting on one’s past, feeling into the present, and paving a way for your future. I incorporate psycho-education about the nervous system, and offer mind/body interventions that will renegotiate trauma in your nervous system and allow a new internal homeostasis to become established.
The benefits of this approach may include, and are not limited to stress-relief, decreased anxiety, reduced depression, increased self-awareness, arousal-regulation, social and emotional flexibility, assertiveness, relational intimacy, increased resiliency, and living more authentically.
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