Jesse Johnson LPC

Jesse Johnson LPC (he/him)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Hi! I'm Jesse. Partner, father, artist, animal-lover, and aspiring optimist in humanity's potential to survive itself.

Client Status

accepting clients

Contact

503-504-0941

Telehealth only

Bend, 97702

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $140-$175

Provides free initial consultation

Provides telehealth services

Practicing Since: 2008

Languages: English

Services

  • Individual
  • Relationship
  • Teen

Insurances Accepted

  • Out of Pocket
  • Out of Network
  • PacificSource

My Ideal Client

My clients tend to wrestle with the current state of the world and their place in it. They sense something new and incredible is emerging, but also find powerlessness, doubt, and overwhelm to be worthy adversaries. They strive for present empowerment while dragging the weight of past trauma, old stories, and generational conditioning. Through co-creative methods of introspection, we rectify critical pieces of their self-organization in service of goals like confidence, courage, and, action.

How I Can Help You

1. Book a free consult. We'll meet over Zoom for 30 minutes as humans answering the beginnings of one main question: "Can you help me?" 2. If we decide to move forward together, we will create a custom process that suits you. From the logistics (frequency, timing, payment) to the relational (dialogue, creative expression, internal access, nervous system tracking, etc.), it will be entirely based on your goals and needs. 3. We will continue under an aspiration of growing responsibility, integrity, and power for your personal and collective pursuits. As you harness your potential, we will create opportunities for you to strengthen yourself in real world ways. 4. We will be complete when you decide we are. 'Complete' can mean anything from a two-month break to a certain final goodbye, and most things in between. Conscious closing helps you leave with all the good stuff you came for!

Why I Became a Therapist

I, like most of the amazing folks I'm fortunate enough to work with, encounter dark moments. I've survived tunnels in life offering little to no light at their end. As a participant in modernity, I wake up in the morning contemplating how certain aspects can possibly improve and what, if anything I can do. I became a therapist to meet humanity in its most tender, personal forms, selfishly, so I could learn about and support a potential I only fathomed. I'm still a therapist today for the two decades of nourishment and optimism I've received from witnessing the transformative power of radical self-honesty in my clients.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    Hakomi therapy is a creative, collaborative, and, often surprising approach to becoming more of who we are. It is a ship floating at the speed of you, with me helping captain the wheel. You will use your breath, curiosity, and attention to explore parts of yourself ready to come aboard. When we encounter storms at sea, I apply Sensorimotor techniques (the trauma-ready version of Hakomi) to take extra care.

  • Attachment Theory External link

    At the core, we are relational beings, and both our deepest wounds and our greatest strengths often spring forth from the bounds of relationship. Let's address that which relationship created in an intentionally healing relationship.

  • Existential External link

    One of the important evolutions in counseling is happening. We're learning about the limitations of the "vacuum" container individual counseling provides. I work with clients who desire to impact the world beyond their own vacuum, and so these contexts must become part of whatever we define as "Self."

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • Political Climate External link

    Be ready to hold up the mirror of politics to yourself. I'm getting underneath the conditioning of red, blue, left, right, and all the other divisive binaries. No matter your affiliation or perspective, I'm not here to affirm your righteous indignation or enable your confirmation bias. I work with folks who are ready to go beyond the social conditioning and echo chambers and into their own truth, in service of a more life-giving world.

  • Spirituality External link

    My transpersonal perspective (and training) allow for a belief that everything on your path is a potential engagement with your own spiritual guidance. This is a non-religious connection to however you relate to your spiritual center, and whose presence is always with us in the therapeutic process.

  • Men's Issues External link

    Sometimes it takes men to 'get' men. It's a delicate time to be a man with human needs, and I aim to empower the men I work with to help their personal growth benefit themselves and the world around them. Learn to leverage your privilege to serve a life-giving planet. Directness, feedback, honesty, accountability.

  • Parenting External link

    Yes, I'm a parent. It's my most important role, even if not always the most fun. It's possible we parents might be the most under-trained, under-resourced demographic in all the world! Seriously. Let's learn how to translate the challenges you're having as a parent into more energy, more happiness, and more closeness with your children and family.

  • Child or Adolescent Issues External link

    I feel so deeply for our current generation of young folks. Trying to make sense of an over-stimulated, fragmented world with so much beauty and potential. What a time to be trying to figure out who they are! I help teens root themselves to their own ground and grow from there. Anxiety, depression, "acting out." These are adult constructs to help explain the great search for "who am I?" For such clients, I can be a guide.

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