FAQ

The majority of my services are via telehealth. The reasons for this are due to:

• Ease and flexibility
• Convenience and comfort
• Ability to work with people in locations with fewer services available
• Lower overhead operating costs

The exception to telehealth services includes services involving Acudetox Acupuncture, and some plant-based or spiritual medicine journeys. I also offer intensive retreat–style services in Arvada, CO on an individual basis.

I am available between 8 am and 7 pm Monday through Friday.

Weekend hours are sometimes available on a case-by-case basis.

The typical session is a 50-minute appointment – completed virtually via telehealth.

My preferred method of contact is email. Please email me at jessica@intuitivelifewellness.com or via the Contact Form below. I will respond with a link for you to schedule a free virtual consultation appointment.

You may also call me at (719) 800-1233. I use a HIPAA-compliant phone service. Please state your name when prompted and if I cannot answer, please leave me a message.

I will return your call as soon as I am able and no later than within 24 hours.

I allow cancellations up to 24 hours before the appointment.

Less than 24 hours notice may result in being charged the full appointment fee.

I understand emergencies do happen, so I allow for one freebie. Subsequent no-shows or late cancellations will be charged the full appointment fee.

The initial consultation can be scheduled within 12-24 hours. After the initial consultation, I usually schedule clients for the following week. However, I can make adjustments depending on your needs.

I have experience with all ages, but I work best with teens aged 13+ and adults aged 18-60.

I welcome all genders and identities. Specific couples therapy and family therapy is not my expertise, but partners or a family member may be invited to attend or participate in a session in certain circumstances.

We begin building our relationship by conducting a thorough, holistic assessment of your history, strengths, and needs. Then we will identify your goals from various areas of your life and an individualized plan to reach those goals.

Individual sessions generally involve any combination of processing relevant issues, events, or concerns; exploring thoughts and beliefs; mindfulness skills training; guided imagery and meditation; learning distress tolerance and emotion regulation concepts and skills; somatic work; energy healing; connecting with your spirit team; growing your intuition.

I like to offer additional support activities for use in between sessions. The more you integrate into your daily routines and habits, the quicker and more sustainable your progress will be.

Any assignments, homework, or activities are always your choice. I never require assignments; instead, we identify goals you want to work toward during the week and develop doable ways to reach those goals.

I integrate a few modalities to truly embrace mind, body, and spirit healing.

My primary go-to for traditional psychotherapy is Dialectical-Behavior Therapy (DBT). I like DBT because of the structure yet, flexibility, the wide range of issues it can address, and the mindfulness component.

We will also utilize somatic awareness and nervous system regulation techniques to ease tension from the inside and allow a more embodied presence in your relationship with yourself.

Bioenergetic healing through Angel Reiki allows you to connect with your intuition and spirit team and experience the stress relief associated with a chakra cleansing. Acudetox acupuncture allows the body to restore a healthy balance of energy flow.

This combination of whole system support allows for deeper processing and release of subconscious material or beliefs that contribute to the manifested or presenting problem.

DBT is a form of talk therapy that simultaneously aims to develop acceptance and promote healthy behavioral changes for recovery from various disruptive issues such as borderline personality, self-harm, depression, and suicidal thoughts.

There are four key aspects, called skills or modules which include:

Mindfulness: A way of observing thoughts, emotions, and actions without judgment. This is the foundation of our work together and the first way we promote and cultivate acceptance.

Distress tolerance: The second acceptance skill that helps us cope with emotional pain and challenging situations, accepting them for what they are and letting go of what we think they should be.

Emotional regulation: In this phase, we build strategies to regulate intense emotions. We learn to identify emotions for what they are and, over time, reduce our susceptibility to extreme reactions, experience more positive emotions and cope better when intense emotions arise.

Interpersonal effectiveness: The remaining module focuses on developing communication in relationships – becoming more assertive, communicating needs clearly, and setting appropriate boundaries and limits that protect your well-being.

Typical traditional mental health treatment modalities focus on cognitive processes or talk therapy alone to resolve trauma, depression, and other mental health issues. It focuses on symptom management, or “curing” your “disorder.” This does not consider the spiritual and physical parts of us that need just as much attention, if not more.

We hold emotions in the body, and traumas get stored as energy, which can turn into physical pain, illness, and autoimmune disorders. Our spirit can be damaged by trauma, disappointment, hurt, being dismissed, and restricting societal expectations. We become disconnected from our soul selves, lost in material things, comparison, and perfectionism, leading to depression, confusion, and self-doubt.

Energy healing connects the spirit to the body and the mind to allow for holistic transformation, with quicker and more lasting change, than simply focusing on one part of us alone. Sessions leave people feeling lighter, more connected to the present, and more motivated and empowered to engage with their day-to-day lives.

As a licensed clinical social worker for nearly ten years, I’ve seen the ups and downs of traditional mental health treatment models that too often failed providers and recipients. Through personal and professional experience, I became disheartened by the focus on symptoms, disorders, and “fixing” people. Rather than considering the totality of a person, their life’s experience, and even the ancestral and intergenerational trauma continually passed down through the lineage.

I began my professional career after graduating from Western Illinois University with a Bachelor of Social Work degree in 2006. After graduation, I provided counseling and advocacy services to survivors of interpersonal violence, as well as in-home developmental and educational training and coaching for parents of young children.

I furthered my education and skills by pursuing a Master of Social Work at the University of Denver, from which I graduated in 2009. This entered the life experience phase of my life where I struggled after the recession to find a job, worked in the public service sector, and skipped town to Australia for a brief time.

After returning to reality, I settled down in the adult world. I gained valuable experience providing therapeutic services to children and their families, individuals in crisis, and adolescents dealing with significant trauma, abuse and neglect, criminal and legal involvement, mental health disruption, behavioral problems, and self-medicating.

I became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in 2013 and a LAC in 2018. I seek to further my education and training to always offer the most valuable services to the people who trust me.

You’ve probably heard that therapy focuses on the past and coaching focuses on the future. That is one of the biggest myths the coaching industry tells to promote coaching over therapy. The truth is, there is a time and place for each, and sometimes they can overlap or coincide together.

What sets therapy apart is the treatment of an identified mental health diagnosis, determined through our assessment process or an outside psychiatrist. Therapy focuses on resolving the disruptive symptoms associated with this disorder to alleviate distress and enhance overall recovery.

Coaching does not involve the treatment of diagnosable mental health conditions and focuses on one or more aspects of well-being that could benefit from outside structured support.

Yes! I love working with organizations and agencies to identify areas to improve and support employee wellness and retention.

In-person: Acudetox Acupuncture is the most popular request for wellness services. This is because of the time and cost-effectiveness of this amazing stress-relieving modality. I will come to your agency or meet you at a pre-arranged location, provide a brief educational presentation, and allow employees to experience acudetox.

Virtual: Mindfulness for Stress is a virtual workshop that teaches different mindfulness techniques to help with relaxation and stress management.

Yes! I offer the following supervision and training opportunities. Supporting fellow therapists and healers in their own life purpose is one of my passions.

LCSW – Individual and group supervision for clinicians working towards LCSW licensure.

LAC – individual and group supervision for clinicians working towards LAC licensure.

ADS – individual supervision for people completing Acudetox Certification.

Coaching – individual consultation for coaches on either a case-specific or ongoing basis.