"About Jessica Thayer"
"FAQ's"
About Jessica Thayer
My quest to find a joyous and efficient method of supporting individuals in the process of transformation began more than 25 years ago. I observed that traditional "talk therapy" did not seem to help most people make dramatic and lasting changes in their lives. That observation was the beginning of an ongoing journey of discovery.
Graduate studies in the fields of education, social work and environmental studies failed to provide me with a holistic perspective. In later training, I was fortunate to discover healing techniques dedicated to helping people tap their own healing potentials. Art therapy and play therapy offered opportunities for the direct, nonverbal expression of an individual‘s inner conflicts and the resolution of those conflicts.
In the fields of Sensory Integration and Educational Kinesiology the goals were to facilitate physical, neurological and energetic integration. As an educational kinesiologist, I discovered my gift for speaking directly with the essence of a person. I was able to access levels of an individual's wisdom and knowing that
traditional therapies failed to reach.
Expanding Awareness
At a time in my life when I was teaching classes on the opportunities for mind-body learning presented by accidents, illness and chronic depression, I was broadsided in my car by a drunk driver. This was the beginning of a decade long healing crisis that brought me to more than 50 practitioners in a variety of fields.
During this time, I was introduced to numerous schools of thought and healing techniques. Through this journey, the anatomy of the highly sensitive person, the challenges of the sensitive in the world of healers, and the needs of the sensitive person were illuminated. At the same time, my journey initiated me into new levels of awareness.
I have discovered a unique gift for asking people the right questions and finding ways to unravel seemingly permanent tangles. Over time, an even deeper, more direct way of sensing information has emerged. This allows clients to identify previously undiscovered material in short periods of time.
I have been repeatedly told by different practitioners that how I receive information and the level of subtlety at which I pick up information is unique. The simplest way to explain how I get information is to say that I am able to sense, some place beyond my physical body – bumps, ripples or places of perturbation in the fields of people and the environment. I am able to name these ineffable qualities in a manner that resonates with each individual.
I am committed to assisting sensitives in:
reclaiming trust in their own knowing, acquiring a vocabulary for their experiences and educating providers about the needs of the sensitive.
FAQ's
What do you call what you do?
I call myself an advocate for highly sensitive people.
How do you differ from a psychic?
The psychic ability is a sense, like smelling or hearing. Most of us have not developed this sense, nor do we tend to be born with it fully developed. Different psychics work in different ways. I cannot speak for other people. My work is about naming the blocks to authenticity. I do not predict the future. I work at the propriotheric level where subtle energy is sensed. I read energy fields.
Are you a medical intuitive?
No.
How do you know what you know about me so quickly?
Our culture of denial and short sightedness makes an individual's clear perception a surprising experience. We are not surprised when a dog smells things we can not smell, or a bird navigates by electromagnetic fields we can not feel or see. My own personal work has required a level of clearing that has increased my ability to perceive what exists in the fields of a person or a place.
Why do you only do phone work? Don't you miss a lot working that way?
As my levels of perception have deepened, phone work has evolved as an efficient and desirable way to work. When meeting a client in person, I find that physical cues distract from attending to deep truths.
There is no question that phone work deprives the client of many reassuring kinds of connection. This is one of the reasons why the work is not suited for many people. The work requires that the client have a strong enough sense of self that he or she does not need to rely on me to be an emotional container.
Why don't you call yourself a coach or a counselor?
What I do is something I am not aware of anyone else doing. There is no term in the culture for the work I do with people.
Since a consultant is someone who is paid for his or her specialized knowledge or field of expertise, that seems the best way to define my role. I am a consultant for highly sensitive people.
While there are many kinds of counselors, I understand them to be offering culturally sanctioned theory and tools for alleviation of different kinds of dis-ease. When we speak of a counselor or therapist, we are referring to someone whose work is rooted in a specific psychological theory and training. I do not work with any culturally sanctioned framework as my lens of perception. I am working at a level of field awareness that is, as of yet, rarely acknowledged as existing at all.
I ask that a client have a counselor with whom he or she can consult during our work together.
I understand a coach to be someone who assists clients in living fuller lives by addressing life skills and focusing on goals and objectives.
What I attend to is what is not consciously available to a client. I sense and name invisible pulls, threads and themes. While work may result in a clearer sense of direction, greater ease and greater joy, our work is not about the conscious agenda.
Instead, I am addressing why one's conscious agenda is not bringing joy or being manifested.
How long does someone work with you?
The duration of the work is dependent upon your goals. I have clients who have worked with me once and still experience the benefits of the work years later. I work with some clients once a week for anywhere from several months to a year. Other clients check in with me with varying levels of frequency.
You say that I will know in one session if this work is for me. How?
Within one session, you should feel that I have touched upon core conflicts in your life. I will describe what is going on at a level within you that others have failed to recognize.
You mention that we both decide if we work together—isn’t that my choice?
I work in a very different way than most people. I consider our work to be a co-creative process. While many people who are in recovery from abuse or addiction are highly sensitive people, I only work with clients who are at a point in their healing where they have a stable foundation from which to make leaps in self perception. The work I can do is often limited if someone is on medication.
There is a right time for me to work with a person. It may be that someone calls me and learns about me, yet, they need to postpone our work until they have done more of their historical work. Usually, the work with me turns basic understandings upside down. It is often in the rearrangement of core concepts that the individual's truth is perceived. The irony is that this reorientation is only possible when the individual is strong enough to tolerate the dissolution of core beliefs.
Do you work with children?
No.
Do you work with people in spiritual crisis?
No.
Why do you refer for bodywork and other clearing therapies? Why don’t you do that work yourself?
I work at a subtle level of energetic awareness. I am not suited for work in the physical field. Other clearing modalities have not called to me.
