JASMINE WILSON, LCSW, SEP
Somatic Therapist in Brea & Online in CA + AZ
Deep therapy for deeper healing.
You’ve Already Done a Lot of the Work.
You’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand yourself. You’ve reflected, read, processed, and worked hard to make sense of your experiences, so you may already understand many of your patterns and where they come from.
Still, understanding why you strive, overthink, people-please, or keep pushing doesn’t always make it easier to stop.
You may know that you need to slow down or put less pressure on yourself, while finding that something in you keeps returning to the same familiar patterns.
That’s where our work can go deeper.
Rather than focusing on insight alone, somatic and depth-oriented therapy can help you become more curious about what’s happening inside, so you can begin to feel more connected to yourself and have more choice in how you respond.
My Approach to Therapy
I’m interested in more than the anxiety, overwhelm, or self-doubt that brings you to therapy. I want to understand the patterns around them, how those patterns came to make sense, and what keeps them showing up in your life today.
That means making room for the whole picture of you, including your history, relationships, culture, and the experiences that have shaped how you learned to relate to yourself and others. We’ll also pay attention to what happens in the present moment, including your emotions, body sensations, and the ways you respond when something feels difficult.
Together, we can begin to understand the patterns that keep you striving, accommodating, second-guessing yourself, or pushing through, while creating more room for connection, self-trust, and choice.
What It’s Like to Work With Me
Therapy with me is warm, collaborative, and deeply attentive. I’ll bring curiosity, honesty, and gentle challenge into our work while making room for you to move at a pace that feels supportive.
You don’t need to arrive with the right words or a clear explanation for what you’re feeling. We can start with what you do know and stay curious about what begins to emerge, whether that shows up through a thought, emotion, body sensation, image, impulse, or something harder to name.
I’ll pay attention to what you’re saying and to what may be happening in the moment between us. Sometimes the patterns we’re exploring outside of therapy can show up in the room too, giving us a chance to notice them together with curiosity rather than judgment.
Over time, therapy can become a place where you practice turning some of the attention you so easily give to everything and everyone around you back toward yourself.
CURIOUS IF WE’RE A GOOD FIT?
Why I Do This Work
I became a therapist because I understand what it’s like to carry a lot while having very little space to simply be.
For much of my life, I learned to keep going, hold things together, and pay close attention to what was needed around me. Being capable came easily, but knowing and expressing what I felt, what I needed, or what I wanted was much less familiar.
Over time, I began to understand how much was bypassed underneath all of the doing. The pressure to get things right, the habit of pushing through, and the ways we learn to shape ourselves around what feels expected of us often have deeper roots—in our families, culture, societal expectations, etc.
That understanding is part of what draws me to this work.
I’m especially drawn to working with people who have become very good at managing life, but are ready to develop a different relationship with themselves. I’ve seen what can become possible when someone has space to slow down, get curious about the patterns they’ve carried, and begin listening to themselves with more trust.
Therapy can become a place to discover that you don’t always have to push, perform, or look outside yourself for what comes next. There can be more room to know yourself, trust what you feel and need, and make choices that feel more like your own.
That’s what makes this work so meaningful to me.
Who I Work With
I work primarily with adults navigating:
Anxiety, overthinking, and chronic stress
Burnout, overwhelm, and difficulty slowing down
People-pleasing, overextending, and difficulty setting boundaries
Self-doubt, perfectionism, and low self-esteem
Life transitions, identity, and questions about what comes next
This is a space where you can show up as you are—messy, unsure, imperfect, and everything in between.
Approaches That Inform My Work
My work is grounded in Somatic Experiencing® and the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), along with psychodynamic, relational, and acceptance-based approaches. Together, these approaches help us make sense of your experiences while also paying attention to your emotions, relationships, body sensations, and the patterns that show up in the present moment. I draw from each approach based on what feels most useful for you and where we are in the work.
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Somatic Experiencing® helps shift stress, anxiety, and trauma that live in the body. By gently increasing awareness of bodily sensations, we can support nervous system regulation and create more capacity for ease, connection, and choice in daily life.
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NARM is a relational and identity‑based approach that focuses on patterns formed through early attachment and developmental experiences. Rather than revisiting trauma in detail, we work with how these patterns show up in the present—supporting agency, connection, and a stronger sense of authentic self.
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The way we respond to things in the present is often shaped by what we've lived through in the past. Together, we'll explore what feels familiar, which patterns keep repeating, and how your earlier experiences may still be shaping your choices today. With greater awareness, you have more agency and more choice in how you move forward.
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ACT supports you in building a more flexible relationship with your thoughts and emotions while clarifying what matters most to you. This approach can be especially helpful for anxiety, perfectionism, and feeling stuck or disconnected from your values.
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Therapy isn't just about what we talk about—it's also about how we relate. The connection we build together is an important part of the process, because healing happens in relationships where it feels safe enough to be seen, honest, and real. Our work can become a space to explore what trust, boundaries, and emotional safety actually feel like—and to experience a different way of being in relationship, one that supports deeper healing.
Training & Education
Education & Licensure
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology
University of Southern California
Master of Social Work
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
California License #99171, Board of Behavioral Sciences
Arizona License #22072, Board of Behavioral Health Examiners
Trainings & Certifications
Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), Somatic Experiencing International
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) Professional Training, NARM Training Institute
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Psychwire w/Russ Harris
ACT for Beginners
Trauma-Focused ACT
Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Bonnie Weiss, LCSW
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Unfreezing the Fawn with Somatic Experiencing®, Shideh Lennon, Ph.D., SEP
Re-introducing the Inner Critic: An Embodied SE Approach, Maureen Gallagher Ph.D., SEP
Pre- and Perinatal Trauma (A Two-Day Somatic Experiencing®-Informed Experiential Workshop), Glyndie Nickerson, Ph.D., SEP
SUPPORT AWAITS YOU
SUPPORT AWAITS YOU
There can be more room for you.
IF YOU’RE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT THERAPY TOGETHER COULD LOOK LIKE, LET’S START WITH A CONVERSATION.
Somatic Therapist in Brea, CA
265 S Randolph Ave, Brea, CA 92821
I offer in-person somatic therapy in Brea for adults throughout North Orange County, along with online therapy for clients across California and Arizona. Whether we meet in the office or virtually, our work can include the same depth, curiosity, and attention to both mind and body.