Jessica
Bowen
LMFT, ACHt
Integrative healing for grief, loss & life transition
EMDR Therapy
for Grief, Loss
& Life Transition
Focused, short-term work for grief that lives in the body and hasn't shifted with talk therapy alone.
Something happened. And it's still with you.
You may know it's grief— where it began, what it means, how it changed you.
And yet something remains. A heaviness that returns. A memory that still catches you off guard. A loss that lives in your body in ways that talking about it hasn't fully reached.
You know the story of your loss. But some part of you still carries it as if it were happening now.
This is not a failure of insight or effort. It's simply what grief sometimes does — it settles into places that understanding alone can't touch.
EMDR was designed for exactly this. Not to bypass the meaning of loss, but to help the nervous system finish what it started — so that grief can be carried differently, and life can open up again.
WHAT IS EMDR
Processing what words
alone can't reach.
EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a evidence-based therapy that works directly with how the brain stores traumatic and painful memories.
When we experience loss, the nervous system sometimes gets stuck, replaying the pain, keeping us in a state of unresolved grief long after we've intellectually "processed" what happened.
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess those stuck memories — not to erase them, but to allow them to settle into a more integrated place, where they no longer carry the same charge.
"The goal isn't to stop grieving. It's to let the grief move — so it no longer holds you in place."
My approach to EMDR is grief-informed from the ground up. I don't treat grief as a problem to be solved. I treat it as a profound human experience that sometimes needs more than words to find its way through.
THE SHAPE OF THE WORK
A clear arc
A defined container.
This is focused, intentional work with a beginning, middle, and end. Each series moves through three distinct phases — not rigidly, but with direction.
PHASE ONE
PHASE TWO
PHASE THREE
WHO THIS IS FOR
Grief that hasn't
fully moved.
This work tends to be most meaningful for people who have already done some personal work — and who sense that something specific is still unresolved.
It is particularly well-suited for grief that lives in the body, grief connected to trauma, or loss that keeps resurfacing despite years of reflection.
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The death of someone significant — sudden, traumatic, or long anticipated
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Grief connected to trauma or complicated loss
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A life transition that has closed a chapter you weren't ready to leave
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Estrangement — from a person, a place, or a version of yourself
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The grief of a life that didn't unfold as expected
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Loss that keeps resurfacing despite years of reflection and therapy
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Grief that lives in the body — in anxiety, numbness, or physical holding
THE SERIES
Focused work
A defined investment.
GOODNESS OF FIT
This work is right for you
if...
THE FIRST STEP
A conversation
before we begin.
Before any commitment is made, we meet. A 45-minute video consultation — a real conversation about what you're carrying, what you're hoping for, and whether this work feels like the right fit for where you are right now.
If we decide to move forward together, the consultation fee applies toward your series. If it isn't the right fit, I'll offer referrals and resources.
Either way, you leave the conversation with more clarity than you came with.
45- MINUTE VIDEO CONSULTATION
$125
We'll talk about what's bringing you here, walk through how the work unfolds, and get a genuine sense of each other.
Currently accepting new clients in Washington and Oregon.