MY STORY
I spent most of my adult life living in my head suffering
from a very disordered relationship with my body and life in general.
In my 20’s and early 30’s I worked numerous demanding jobs that further perpetuated this unhealthy relationship to self and body and found myself using many self destructive methods of coping in an attempt to deal with daily life. It felt as if I was on a constant rollercoaster that was spiralling out of control moving further away from the truth of who I was and the life I desired to lead. This constant battle with my mental health and physical wellbeing was the catalyst that sent me on my quest to find answers and freedom.
My search led me to Sacred sites all over the planet. I met with Shamans in the Amazon, walked Pumas in the Bolivian jungle. Studied with Yogis in India and Spiritual Teachers in Bali.
A few years into my quest curiosity led me to India and to the practice of Yoga where I completed my first yoga teacher training. Yoga bought me back into my body for the first time in many years and finally I felt as if I was receiving some of the answers I had been tirelessly searching for. I dove into the practice of Yoga and In 2015 I began to teach. I enjoyed sharing the fruits of this beautiful ancient philosophy and practice with students and yet after a few years there was still a yearning for deeper healing that would enable me to connect on a more profound level of intimacy with myself and with others.
I returned to further my studies again in 2017 with Embodied Flow in Bali ( An integrative blend of Hatha Yoga, Somatics, Movement Meditations, Tantric Philosophy, and Transpersonal Psychology).
I then continued my internal explorations with Metavision Australia in 2019. I trained in a psychotherapeutic model call Process Work. Process Work is a holistic approach to psychotherapy. With the highest regard for the individuals process and a belief in the rightness of everything it goes beyond just treating symptoms and also takes into account the individuals life experiences and environment. It is a way of healing that focuses on the complexity of the living human being in a process of becoming
These teachings helped me to re direct my once desperate search outside, inwards. Assisting me as I began to peel back the layers that had been built up over a long period of time, they offered me a profound sense of connection and agency, that was the beginning of a remarkable journey back home to my true self.
“It is my deepest desire to share this knowledge and the tools that accompany it with my clients. So that they too through recognition of their own infinite potential and strengths can begin their own healing journey back home to health and wholeness.”
JESSICA HALL
Jessica is a Holistic Psychotherapist specializing in Somatic Therapy and an Embodied Movement facilitator. She works with women in a 1-1 therapeutic setting, runs online workshops, facilitates circles and embodied movement classes. Her work is aimed at helping clients unravel from disempowering beliefs, painful narratives, cultural conditioning & trauma that prevents them from living a fully expressed life. She weaves together the many different modalities that she has marinated in over the past ten years. (Inc studies in women’s health, yoga, embodiment, counselling, somatic therapy, and psychotherapy) creating a unique holistic model of healing that tends to the soma, the psyche and the soul of the individual.
Jessica believes that in order to heal it is important that we address our suffering, struggles and difficulties from the perspective that we are already whole. We do not need to be fixed or cured.“ A big part of my role is to help my clients uncover their own set of internal and external resources. I gently redirect my client’s inquiry within, helping them to uncover their own answers and develop a sense of agency and autonomy. I give them the support that they need so that they can begin to do the work to heal themselves. Our bodies contain wisdom that is timeless, and my role is to help you to remember and reconnect with empowering beliefs and ways of being in the world”.
QUALIFICATIONS
- PACFA Registered Psychotherapist
- ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Therapist
- ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Educator
- RYT 500 - Embodied Flow