Upcoming Events
Practitioner Group Consults (Fall 2026)
Practitioner Group Consults (Fall 2026)
Thursdays 3pm - 4:30pm PST/6pm - 7:30pm EST
Sept 24, Oct 22, Nov 19, Dec 10
$200 for the four-session series
Group consults offer an opportunity to hear the challenges and skills of other practitioners while also getting support around your own challenges and growth edges in your practice. All topics and types of practitioners are welcome at these consults. Groups will last 90 minutes each. Consult series are part of a 4-session series, meeting once a month.
If you are interested in joining a group and this time does not work, please reach out to let me know your interest and your preferred days and times. In the future, I will add another group.
Jessica provides consultation for practitioners from a broad spectrum of modalities, including psychotherapy, massage therapy, somatic sex education and sexological bodywork, Somatic Experiencing® students and practitioners, acupuncture, mainstream medicine, naturopathy, those working in transformative justice, and more.
Working with clients as whole and complex beings, especially in an integrative fashion, can be challenging in a culture that subdivides people and their challenges, as well as separates people from collective experience and context. This becomes more challenging when working with clients with a history of complex, pre-verbal, developmental, and or pervasive/cultural trauma. Whether a practitioner intends to or not, the chances of having a client and/or group who is impacted by developmental trauma can, and often do, show up.
Jessica fosters an environment of curiosity and skill building to optimize working in a fashion that supports practitioners to feel and trust their own skill and expertise, while improving efficacy to help clients feel more agency and success.
Jessica is an approved provider at all levels for both personal sessions and consultations for Somatic Experiencing credit.
Embodied Agency and Desire: The Wheel of Consent at Breitenbush Hot Springs
Embodied Agency and Desire: The Wheel of Consent at Breitenbush Hot Springs
Breitenbush, OR
with Jess Kramer, Roxie Hunt, and Ruth Bryan
When: December 13th - 17th, 2026
Where: Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat Center.
Join us for a 4-night, 5-day immersive retreat exploring desire, boundaries, embodied consent, and the nuanced art of receiving and giving. Nestled in the forest and mineral waters of Breitenbush Hot Springs, this retreat offers a unique opportunity to slow down, soften, and deepen into relationship with yourself and others through the framework of the Wheel of Consent.
Together, we will engage in somatic (body-based) practices, discussion, reflection, and consensual touch exercises designed to help you become more aware of your wants, your limits, and the places where your body says yes, no, maybe, or not yet. Through guided exploration, participants will practice making agreements, understanding boundaries, communicating limits, asking for what they truly want, and discovering greater clarity around giving, receiving, choice, and agency.
Developed by Dr. Betty Martin, the Wheel of Consent is a powerful relational model rooted in touch practices that illuminate the dynamics of human interaction far beyond physical touch alone. The Wheel distinguishes between who is doing and who an interaction is for, opening pathways toward greater clarity, honesty, freedom, trust, generosity, self-tending, and embodied awareness in all relationships.
This retreat welcomes both newcomers to the Wheel of Consent and experienced practitioners seeking a rich environment for embodied practice and integration. Workshops will be balanced with spacious personal time for soaking in the hot springs, resting, journaling, connecting with others, and integrating the work at your own pace. Optional practice spaces throughout the workshop will offer additional opportunities for reflection, embodiment, and community connection.
Over the course of our time together, we will explore:
Agency and Desire through YES and NO
An embodied exploration of the nuances of Receiving and Giving through take, allow, accept and serve.
Increasing one’s capacity to receive while opening one’s heart to give.
Recognizing habitual patterns that move us out of consent agreements.
Cultivating clearer language and communication skills, trust, and relational awareness.
Our days will unfold through a gentle rhythm of morning and evening workshops, shared meals, optional practice space and optional ritual, quiet integration time, and restorative soaking beneath the Winter sky. The retreat begins with an Opening Circle on the evening of December 13th and concludes with a Closing Circle on the morning of December 17th.
Whether you are single, partnered, dating, married, divorced, monogamous, polyamorous, curious, or simply longing for more honest and embodied ways of relating, this retreat offers a grounded and spacious container for exploration, practice, restoration, and discovery.
*This is a clothes-on workshop retreat, and participation in all practices is entirely optional. While this work can profoundly impact intimacy and sexuality, the focus of the retreat is not sex, but cultivating deeper awareness, choice, connection, and consent in relationship with ourselves and others.