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Meet Jessa
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Jessa Hooley

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What I do.

Hello, I'm Jessa. I'm a Holistic Trauma Specialist – helping people heal from traumatic experiences using holistic modalities (see below for specifics). I currently offer individual and group healing sessions, both in-person and online.

 

In addition to my trauma work, I am the author and publisher of The Emotional Literacy and Mindful Fables picture book series – written to help children and their grown-ups in the process of embodied healing and trauma prevention.

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My training.

I only offer modalities that I have had 1) personal healing experience with and 2) supervised training to safely facilitate for those impacted by trauma. I am formally trained to facilitate survivors through:

  • Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release®

  • Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma

  • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Meditation

  • Somatic Exploration for Trauma​​​​

  • Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises®

  • Neurogenic Yoga®

  • Sound Healing Facilitation

Please scroll to the bottom of the page for links and details of my certifications.

I am not a licensed mental health provider, nor do I diagnose or attempt to treat any mental health conditions. I am here to create a guided container for you to navigate your own healing with holistic tools.

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Why this matters to me.

I come to this work from a very personal perspective. I was raised in a cult-religion that romanticized trauma and protected my abusers. My mother died from suicide when I was eleven after having struggled through her own abusive relationship. 

 

I have a long history of developmental and interpersonal trauma that brought me to my knees in my early twenties. I was first diagnosed with anxiety at 20, obsessive compulsive disorder at 27, and depression at 28. From my teenage years and through my twenties I was plagued with untreatable chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and ongoing panic attacks. 

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I found yoga and meditation in the midst of those precarious years, and they kept me alive as I struggled with my own thoughts of suicide.  

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It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I found a trauma specialist who helped me acknowledge my history of serious developmental, religious, and sexual trauma that left me with complex PTSD. Overtime I learned how to take a holistic view of my experience, ditch the pathologizing labels placed on me, and discovered the beauty of living for what felt like the first time.

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What I believe.

I believe that the path to healing involves a holistic approach. I am an ardent advocate of traditional psychotherapy and psychopharmacological medications in conjunction with other treatments.

 

I also believe that the western-medical approach to healing is harmfully incomplete. I believe the most powerful paths to healing include the modernity of science and the wisdom of our ancestors and collective consciousness.

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My work is not prescriptive, it is collaborative. Healing belongs to you as the client and I cannot guide you to a place that you don't want to go.

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Certified through the institutions listed below and insured by Alternative Balance.

My Certifications:

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