What is Trauma?
Trauma is a distressing, disturbing, and overwhelming experience that can have lasting negative impacts on a person's mental, physical, social, and spiritual well-being. It's a subjective experience, meaning individuals may react differently to the same event, and it can manifest in various ways, including anxiety, fear, sadness, anger, and difficulty processing emotions. No one can tell you what is or is not traumatizing to you. If you wonder why your reactions feel disproportionate to your experience, you may be experiencing a trauma response.
How does past trauma impact me?
The act of supporting your work in identifying and processing traumas that are holding you back.
Through this work, I will help you learn how to use powerful, effective, accessible tools to identify and work with your trauma history. We will establish a safe environment to practice this work, clearing traumas and learning new coping skills.​ This is meant to be a finite practice. At the pace that is right for you, you will learn these tools and no longer need my services. You will be able to continue to apply these tools to your future work.
How does Trauma Process Facilitation work?
What is Trauma Process Facilitation?
When we experience trauma, our brain protects us by blocking the experience from our consciousness. This helps us get through the experience, but prevents the brain and psyche from processing the experience. The result is that the trauma stays stuck in our brain. Sometimes we may remember an experience later in life and wonder why it's just now coming up. Other times, we may wonder why that one smell makes us sad or being touched in a certain way triggers rage. These are just some of the ways trauma can continue to impact us.
In Trauma Process Facilitation, we work together, utilizing a variety of modalities,
such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems, art therapy, mindfulness, and movement to develop self-regulation practices and identify and process traumas, triggers, and unproductive coping mechanisms.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS), functions on the belief that each trauma causes a part of us to fracture off. When we feel triggered, that part is reacting. It feels unsafe or unheard and brings us back to the feeling of the initial experience. Through IFS, we can work directly with parts to nurture them, help them to heal, and reintegrate them into your core self.
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In EMDR, we use methods such as alternate side tapping to enable processing and calm the nervous system. This works by crossing hemispheres of the brain while soothing the nervous system so that you remain within your window of tolerance. This helps us to do the work without re-triggering your traumatized parts.
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Mindfulness, movement, and art help the subconscious to communicate with us about memories, feelings, and desires that we may not be able to access consciously.
My goal in this work is to hold safe space while facilitating deep trauma work, teach you how to use these tools, and help you develop a deep connection with your core self so that you can utilize these tools on their own.
Who benefits from Trauma Process Facilitation?
Everyone.
If you feel impacted by past trauma that you can't let go of, react in ways that you don't understand, or feel helpless or held back by addiction or unhealthy patterns, you likely have trauma that needs to be processed. If you are ready to dig deep and work to heal your wounds, I am ready to be your partner in the process. When we heal our trauma, we are lightening the collective suffering burden and charting a new course for ourselves based in compassion, curiosity, confidence, and empowerment. This way of being in the world not only improves our quality of life, but the quality of what we contribute to society.
Meet Jennessee Rosenberg
Trauma Process Facilitator
I am an artist, herbalist, and trauma-process facilitator, living in Portland, Oregon.
I believe that all suffering is collective suffering. When we heal our own trauma, we are lightening the collective burden. The tools for this work are accessible to everyone who is ready to do their personal work. I am passionate about sharing these tools, so that we can live from a place of curiosity, compassion, confidence, and empowerment in even the darkest of times. These are the qualities of a life well-lived, a life of peace and joy.
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After decades of cognitive behavioral therapy, I still felt lost. I was great at describing my traumas from a rational and logical place, but I could not access the emotion of them to clear them. When I found someone who could help me work directly with my wounded parts, the transformation of healing blossomed into a level of knowing and nurturing that I been longing for on a soul level. Now, I am here to help you learn how to use these tools in your own personal work. ​
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I hold a Bachelor’s of Arts in Psychology, certifications in treating dissociation and preverbal trauma, and have completed a two-year mentorship utilizing EMDR and Internal Family Systems to process trauma, as well as an internship as an Art Therapist.
If you’re interested in working together, or have any questions about the work I do, please reach out to me at
‪503.893.9940‬ or info@traumaprocessfacilitation.com.
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PLEASE NOTE:
I am not a medical doctor, a certified psychotherapist, or a licensed physician. Persons with psychological or physical illness that require a medical doctor should contact licensed medical practitioners. My services are alternative or complementary to healing arts services licensed by the State. My services are not licensed by the State of Oregon. Please read the complete disclaimer here.
What does a session look like?
Sessions are 50 minutes. During that time, we may meditate, identify past traumas, work directly with parts of you who are impacted by trauma, reintegrate parts and heal old wounds, develop new coping skills, make art, do yoga, or even just talk. All of these activities are specifically designed to aid you in your journey of understanding your past, healing your wounds, and connecting with your empowered self. I may give you homework to help further your work between sessions. This is deep, transformative work. It will not be easy, but it can be incredibly rewarding.
When are we done?
This is meant to be a finite practice. At the pace that is right for you, you will learn these tools and no longer need me. You will be able to apply these tools to your future work. The timeline is different for everyone. However, if you are able to consistently practice using these tools between sessions, you could begin to see changes within 4-6 sessions. This work can span months to years. When you feel safe using these tools on your own, we will begin closing our work together.
What is the fee structure?
My prices are on a sliding scale of $50-$100 per session.
I ask that you pay what you can.
By paying more, you are providing the opportunity for someone of fewer means to receive these services.
Do you take insurance?
I am unable to take insurance at this time.
How do I start?
Call or email me to set up a free consultation.
This initial call will last about 1 hour and will help us determine if we are a good fit.
Resources
Recommended Reading
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Self Therapy, Jay Early
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A step-by-step g​uide to using IFS in your personal work by one of the leaders in the field.
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Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Van der Kolk
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A​ detailed account of how trauma is stored in the body and how unresolved trauma impacts our lives from the preeminent EMDR practitioner.
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The New Rules of Marriage, Terrence Real
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​Real teaches how our early attachment styles impact our relationships and how to repair with exercises that you can do alone or with a partner.
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Attachments, Timothy E. Clinton
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Digs into how early childhood experiences impact the way we ​ relate to others throughout our life and how we heal trauma to improve our relationships.​​
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The 4 Agreements, Miguel Ruiz
- ​A parable on releasing suffering and living from a place of love.​
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The 5th Agreement, Migeul Ruiz
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A continuation and deepening of the lessons in The 4 Agreements​
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The Women’s Wheel of Life, Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard​
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Expanding on the triple goddess concept of Maiden, Mother, and Crone, to include a fourth archetype of Matriarch, Davis and Leonard apply these archetypes to challenges, lessons, and successes of each phase of our lives.
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Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Through myths from cultures across the world, Estes uses archetypes to show us our truly empowered, wild self.​
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Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta
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​As an Aboriginal scholar, artist, and researcher, Yunkaporta explores how an indigenous perspective can provide a healthier relationship to history, education, money, power, and sustainability.
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