Jessie Lane, MS, LPCC
Jessie brings two decades of experience working with people of all ages and diverse identities, helping them to increase vitality in their lives through improved relations with self, others, and their context. Prior to becoming a practicing therapist, Jessie worked as community science and health educator for youth, adults, parents, and families, a public health researcher in harm reduction and food desert remediation, and as a facilitator in elder housing and affairs.
Receiving a Masters of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Jessie’s research focused on harm reduction and provider bias, critical applications of contemporary neuroscience, and somatic and liberation psychology. Jessie's clinical experience includes providing assessment, counseling, and psychotherapy services to toddlers through elders, parents, and families, that are intergenerational, multicultural, intersectional, neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ inclusive.
Jessie integrates liberation, existential, and depth psychologies with perception awareness training to facilitate collaborative and creative therapy sessions. Using psychoanalytic techniques, narrative exploration and construction, and somatic and relational practices, sessions are adapted to client’s unique context and circumstances.
Psychotherapy services, in addition to all other offerings, serve to increase relationality, vitality, and embodied agency in the lives of clients.
Jessie’s personal endeavors and passions include playing and writing music, dance, internal martial arts, and performance art.
Cultivating Networks for Living Whole
On Rhizome Therapeutics.
What is a rhizome?
/ˈrīˌzōm/
noun
The continuously growing, underground plant stems of aspens and bamboo are examples of types of rhizomes, networks of horizontal systems that distribute resources in multiple, differing directions. They store energy in nodes that can root downward, grow laterally, and shoot upwards; the whole of them existing as interdependent expressions of life, adapting to changing environmental conditions. They enable plants to survive unfavorable seasons underground.
As a life-form model, the rhizome is a non-hierarchical and distributed network of relationships that supports multiple potentials at once. As a mode of knowledge, the rhizome allows for multiple entry and exit points in information representation and interpretation. Rhizomes demonstrate how life and knowledge is multi-contexual, and always interconnected.
Our psyches can be thought to be in rhizomatic relationship to our own embodied organism, in addition to the ecosystems and relationships we are situated within. There is opportunity for boundless exploration of knowledge, from many different starting points. Individuation involves awareness and integration of the symbolic underground root system - where the unconscious, the collective, cultural and ancestral influences, and the other, often unseen worlds that influence our organism operate. This is the unknown. These places may have even allowed for our own survival patterns in unfavorable seasons. The same patterns that were once adaptive for survival, however, can become maladaptive.
As Irish poet and philosopher John O’donohue writes, “…many people miss out on themselves completely as they journey through life. They know others, they know places, they now skills, they know their work but tragically, they do not know themselves at all…” Meeting ourselves involves meeting the roots of our embodiment, our psyche, our context- the soil of ourselves; Meeting ourselves involves meeting the unknown.
Using theory and praxis inspired by rhizomatic intelligence principals, Rhizome Therapeutics works to support people to find these roots while expanding to meet the complexity of their experience and their deeper existence. To be rooted in this way is to experience resourcefulness, relaxing our ideas about how knowledge arrives, to make room for our intelligence, while remaining connected to ourselves and others in our context - a useful orientation for complex times. This is a direct antidote for dissociation of many kinds that may be due to trauma or adverse experiences, oppressive systems, various pathologies, or existential crisis and overwhelm of the young, the old, and the in between.