Jess is a Denver-based Licensed Professional Counselor whose work sits at the intersection of clinical mental health care and mind-body medicine. She is currently completing a PhD in mind-body medicine, which shapes how she practices.

Jess spent years working within traditional talk-therapy models before realizing that insight alone rarely creates lasting change. Real shifts happened when clients learned to feel, notice a tight chest, a held breath, a familiar wave of shame, and stay with it long enough for it to move, rather than think their way around it. That shift became the foundation of Awakened Roots Wellness: a practice built on the belief that the body isn’t just where symptoms show up, it’s where healing actually happens.

Sessions might include meditation and breathwork, somatic tracking of emotion in the body, parts work drawn from IFS, values-based work inspired by ACT, and, for those navigating anxiety or OCD, exposure-based practices like ERP. All of these tools are in service of learning to feel your emotions rather than managing them cognitively.

Outside of sessions, Jess continues to study the body’s role in healing through her doctoral work and integrates herbalism and somatic ritual into the practice as ways of tending to the body between sessions, not just during them. You can find her nose in a book, hands in the garden, or boots on a trail in her free time.

If you’re ready to listen to your body, Jess is ready to guide you along the way.