Jen Kollasch (She/Her)

Trauma is a relationship to an event that causes severe stress, experienced as a body first response that tells our mind we are unsafe. PTSD is the experience of being stuck in the relation of and emotional response of the event. Experience of overwhelm, terror, fear, & anxiety can propel our body's protection systems to activate. I incorporate mindfulness, EMDR, IFS, Polyvagal Theory, energetic work, compassion and curiosity to identify where trauma is stuck in the body/mind/spirit.

Compassion is gift and a skill that allows one person to feel another person's pain or sufferings combined with a desire to take the those emotions away. In my experience people who find themselves in a place of compassion fatigue have disconnected with their needs. A pause for meditation is one of many ways I work with people who are experiencing compassion fatigue. When we pause for meditation regularly we are more apt to take a moment and come out of overwhelm and anxiety driven behavior.

Primary attachment is an emotional bond that is a fundamental function of safety, security, and connection to self, others and how we understand the world. Healthy and secure attachments foster safety to look within and see our wholeness and address our needs and desires without shame or defenses activated. I use compassion & curiosity to create an environment that fosters safety and invites honesty for healing and transformation. Secure attachment to Self can be formed at any age.

Somatic Therapy (ST) integrates the mind-body connection that explores present moment awareness of body sensations and how they relate to our thoughts. ST is useful in working with preverbal and unconscious aspects of our experiences. Neuroscience supports the notion that trauma and emotional upset occurs in our body first, then our mind. ST interventions like meditations, body scanning, and grounding techniques are avenues that create new neural pathways of relating to ourselves and the world.

Trauma therapy (TT) is an informed approach where the emphasis is on the relationships our body has to an experience or event. I use an integrative approach of parts work, somatic based connection, attachment and polyvagal theories, EMDR and humanistic orientations to treat the trauma symptoms. I look at our maladaptive behaviors as protectors of wounded parts. When we can see why we show up in certain ways, we can move towards self-compassion, releasing of symptoms and healing.

Trauma therapy (TT) is an informed approach where the emphasis is on the relationships our body has to an experience or event. I use an integrative approach of parts work, somatic based connection, attachment and polyvagal theories, humanistic and anti-oppression orientations, EMDR and EFT to treat trauma symptoms. I look at maladaptive behaviors as protectors of wounded parts. When we can see why we show up in certain ways, we can move towards self-compassion, releasing of symptoms and healing.

I use Attachment Theory Inventory both loosely and strategically to learn about how you have related to the people you leaned on for nurture, safety, and connection in early development. How people have learned to connect or not to connect to others has a direct affect on how our brain's social, emotional and cognitive development, thus how we show up in the world. Through therapeutic relationship and emotional safety you can rewire your brain and change distress patterns.

Trauma therapy is an informed approach where the emphasis is on the relationships our body has to an experience or event. Trauma robes disconnects our ability to trust ourselves and often hijacks us into a body state of protection that can look like depression, anxiety, ruminating thoughts, bracing of self, etc. When we can see why we show up in certain ways, we can move towards self-compassion, release of symptoms & form healing.

I use Attachment Theory Inventory both loosely and strategically to learn about how you have related to the people you leaned on for nurture, safety, and connection in early development. How people have learned to connect or not to connect to others has a direct affect on how our brain's social, emotional and cognitive development, thus how we show up in the world. Through therapeutic relationship and emotional safety you can rewire your brain and change distress patterns.

I understand spirituality to be a belief, connection, and felt sense beyond our physical selves. I offer Reiki, a Japanese Usui tradition of healing that raises the vibratory level in and around the physical body. Reiki can clear, straighten, and heal energy channels. Reiki moves through us in Chakras, Meridians, and Nadis. I focus mostly on Chakras, transformers of energy, that can help rebalance the body's Ki, or life force through spiritual consciousness or Rei.

I use Attachment Theory Inventory both loosely and strategically to learn about how you learned to relate to your primary caregivers. Nurture, safety, and connection in early development is fundamental for survival and throughout life has a direct effect on how our brain's social, emotional and cognitive development is formed, thus how we show up in the world. Through therapeutic relationship and emotional safety, you can rewire your brain and change distress patterns.

I offer Reiki in the Japanese Usui tradition of healing that raises the vibratory level in and around the physical body. Reiki can clear, straighten, and heal energy channels. Reiki moves through us in Chakras, Meridians, and Nadis. I focus mostly on Chakras, transformers of energy, that can help rebalance the body's Ki, or life force through spiritual consciousness or Rei. Reiki can help with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, grief, stuck trauma in the body, etc.

I offer Reiki in the Japanese Usui tradition of healing that raises the vibratory level in and around the physical body. Reiki can clear, straighten, and heal energy channels. Reiki moves through us in Chakras, Meridians, and Nadis. I focus mostly on Chakras, transformers of energy, that can help rebalance the body's Ki, or life force through spiritual consciousness or Rei. Reiki can help with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, grief, stuck trauma in the body, etc.

I offer Reiki in the Japanese Usui tradition of healing that raises the vibratory level in and around the physical body. Reiki can clear, straighten, and heal energy channels. Reiki moves through us in Chakras, Meridians, and Nadis. I focus mostly on Chakras, transformers of energy, that can help rebalance the body's Ki, or life force through spiritual consciousness or Rei. Reiki can help with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, grief, stuck trauma in the body, etc.

I offer Reiki in the Japanese Usui tradition of healing that raises the vibratory level in and around the physical body. Reiki can clear, straighten, and heal energy channels. Reiki moves through us in Chakras, Meridians, and Nadis. I focus mostly on Chakras, transformers of energy, that can help rebalance the body's Ki, or life force through spiritual consciousness or Rei. Reiki can help with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, grief, stuck trauma in the body.

I offer Reiki in the Japanese Usui tradition of healing that raises the vibratory level in and around the physical body. Reiki can clear, straighten, and heal energy channels. Reiki moves through us in Chakras, Meridians, and Nadis. I focus mostly on Chakras, transformers of energy, that can help rebalance the body's Ki, or life force through spiritual consciousness or Rei. Reiki can help with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, grief, stuck trauma in the body, etc.