Licensed Professional Counselor
Hi! I'm Jesse. Partner, father, artist, animal-lover, and aspiring optimist in humanity's potential to survive itself.
Client Status
503-504-0941
Telehealth only
Bend, 97702
Rate: $140-$175
Provides free initial consultation
Provides telehealth services
Practicing Since: 2008
Languages: English
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.
Specialties
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.
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.
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."
Specialties
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jesse Johnson LPC has not posted any group sessions.
It’s no mystery to most that holding onto anger for long enough can be as exhausting as it is painful for people in relationships. In couples and families, some people call this holding in a “cold war” style of conflict. Righteousness burns as loud as the fear that keeps us from speaking up and, if it doesn’t end up making us physically ill, resentment like this can be quite toxic to the organism of a relationship. With very few of us taught healthy and effective skills for conflict and emotional regulation in our early years, I believe there is a desperate cultural need for better ideas, skills, and modeling. With that spirit in mind, here are three ways to practice releasing resentment.