After reading the book The Body Keeps the Score in it’s entirety, I realized it was time for me to seek out a therapist who specialized in EMDR and somatic therapy. I have been sick in my body for most of my life. I had crippling insecurity around the mother wound and trusting females. I had done enough research to know that I needed a very skilled therapist to help me navigate the traumas that have been playing out in my life. 

It took me a little time and research.. Working with Jenessa has been a game changer in my life to see the very least. I have been waking up with night terrors ever since I can remember. And as much therapy as I had gotten over the years, nothing touched some of the ailments that plagued me. Through EMDR, somatics, dreamwork, and a ton of compassion, I have been able to work through some very difficult memories. The only way I can describe it is a ‘reframing’ of these events. Looking at the situations that haunted me, I am now able to look at them through a different lens. This has been healing beyond words. The proof is in my life and how I am living it now. As things come up, as they inevitably will, I have a much healthier and quicker responses. It doesn’t stick and stay in my body making me sick any longer. 

I have experienced EMDR in the past with other therapists, yet I have not found anyone who has been able to crack the code like Jenessa. I do believe in divine timing, yet, I wish to  have found this therapy earlier in my life. Anyone and everyone who has experienced trauma deserves to heal. We all deserve to heal right now. It can be scary and there may be many reasons to postpone this type of therapy. All I can say …the other side is more freeing than I could have imagined.

-D.C.