Jess Spooner
JD, MSW, LSW
A Guide Who Has Walked This Road
My journey into trauma healing began long before my professional training.
Like many people drawn to this work, my understanding of trauma emerged through lived experience, personal healing, academic study, and years of supporting others through profound transformation.
Today, I serve as a: trauma healing coach, grief and loss specialist, conscious parent coach, therapist, spiritual guide and mentor, mindfulness teacher, educator, researcher, advocate, consultant, writer, and founder of IntegralPTSD™ and TraumaShamanic.
My work is grounded in a simple belief:
Healing is possible.
Not because trauma never happened, but because human beings possess a remarkable capacity for adaptation, growth, resilience, and meaning-making.
Throughout my career, I have worked with individuals, families, and organizations navigating complex trauma, attachment wounds, grief, life transitions, family challenges, spiritual crises, and recovery from adverse childhood experiences.
I developed the IntegralPTSD™ framework to address a gap I repeatedly observed in trauma recovery. Many approaches focus on isolated symptoms while overlooking the interconnected nature of human experience. Trauma affects our thoughts, emotions, nervous systems, relationships, identities, beliefs, and sense of purpose. Healing must therefore be equally holistic.
At TraumaShamanic, I integrate trauma-informed principles, attachment theory, nervous system awareness, mindfulness, meaning-centered growth, and spiritual exploration into a comprehensive healing process.
My goal is not to fix people.
My goal is to help individuals reconnect with the wisdom, strength, and wholeness that already exist within them.
Healing is not the absence of pain.
Healing is learning how to carry your story without allowing it to define your future.
I am a lawyer, social worker, survivor, healer, and coach — and I came to this work not from a textbook, but from living it. I have navigated complex trauma and PTSD for more than 10,000 hours. I have also spent those same hours in healing rooms, graduate programs, courtrooms, and sacred spaces learning how to come home to myself — and now, how to guide others to do the same.
A coach who helped me make profound change in my life once told me: it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. I have walked this path, not just in years, but in the currency of presence and practice—hour by hour, session by session, in the sacred work of transformation.
My JD and MSW gave me a systems lens: the ability to see how individual suffering is shaped by families, institutions, culture, and law, and to advocate fiercely within and against those systems. My training as a somatic practitioner, mindfulness teacher, Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner, intuitive healer, shaman with abilities to travel and heal between worlds in the vast and collective field of information, and PhD candidate in Spiritual Healing gave me the rest.
I have specialized expertise in neurodivergence — ADHD, Autism, and their intersections with trauma — because I understand this territory from the inside. And I am a fierce, unapologetic advocate for every client I work with, because healing deserves a champion.
The truth is: you have always known exactly what you need to heal. Our work together is simply the process of remembering.