Jana Mansfield (she/her)

For the last six years I have supported adolescents as they navigate difficult and sometimes traumatic circumstances. I have experience working with children who have experienced abuse and/or neglect. I facilitate groups focused on stress management, grief processing, and peer support. I have extensive experience offering brief, solutions focused support to children and teens struggling with an array of mental health concerns.

I have received training on calming traumatized nervous systems using body-based interventions. In session, clients take the lead and let me know what they are ready to work on. I am gentle in my approach, and support clients as they tune-in and communicate their desired goals and outcomes. I truly believe that clients are the expert on their own lives, and I am there to walk along side as they process and ultimately heal.

Many of the clients I work with are experiencing post-traumatic responses in their day-to-day lives. As a therapist, I introduce skills to clients to help address post-traumatic symptoms. Simultaneously, I understand that many who struggle experience a level of post-traumatic growth. I help clients identify the ways they have grown and healed; I truly believe that traumatic experiences do not define us as human beings.

I completed the Mindsight Institute's Comprehensive Course on Neurobiology. Through this training, I have an in-depth understanding of how healthy attachment bonds are helped or hindered. When working with parents who have concerns about their parenting approach, I find this information to invaluable. I also have extensive training in body-based interventions that help calm the nervous system. This is critical piece as I support teens and their parents in co-regulation.

I received training on Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the Denver Center for SFBT. I employ SFBT interventions in my work with teens on a daily basis. SFBT provides the framework for the way that engage with and perceive clients; I truly believe you are the expert in your own life. With that, it's important that I don't add to client's words or lived experiences and that our time together is spent unearthing innate desires, goals and strengths that exist within each client.

I received training on Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) through the Denver Center for SFBT. I employ SFBT interventions in my work with teens on a daily basis. SFBT provides the framework for the way that engage with and perceive clients; I truly believe you are the expert in your own life. With that, it's important that I don't add to your words or lived experiences and that our time together is spent unearthing innate desires, goals and strengths that already exist within you.

I am a certified Community Resiliency Model (CRM) teacher, and trained in the Trauma Resiliency Model through the Trauma Resource Institute. If you have a trauma history, I can often help you identify the ways the past may be impacting now. I offer support using body-based methods that support the nervous system and help us avoid re-traumatization. I am passionate about helping clients identify and strengthen their connection to inner resources.