Consultation and Training
Josie Bohling, LMFT, provides training and consultation to experienced and pre-licensed therapists. She draws from her 20 years of experience working with clients to teach her approach to supporting them. The areas of instruction she specializes in are somatics, family therapy, teen mental health, trauma recovery with EMDR, and Neurodiverse affirming care.
Training and Consultation Available:
-Somatic Psychology
-Teen and Family Systems Therapy-
-Trauma Recovery with EMDR-
-Neurodiversity Affirming Care-Differential Diagnosis for ADHD/Autism-
Josie trained in Northern California, the birthplace of somatic psychology. Somatics is the foundational lens through which Josie uses to inquire about and understand her clients' needs. She teaches how tracking the bodies of her clients and her own will deepen therapy and provide quicker and lasting change in a person’s relationship with themselves and others.
The Whole Person
Prior to becoming a therapist Josie was an environmental educator and wilderness guide to adults and teens. She witnessed the healing qualities of the natural world and people understanding themselves in diverse enviromentments. This experience informs her interest in the whole person beyond your office. She is curious about each persons whole life system and how it has supported and/or contributed to their struggles. She will challenge you to consider all the environments your client lives in to provide insight and options for healing in their lives.
Teens and Families
For over 20 years, Josie has loved supporting teens and their families to find their way back to connection and understanding of one another. You will find her to be curious and excited about who your teen clients are, who they are becoming, and how therapy can support their growth. With the Structural Family and Attachment lens, she will guide you in understanding how to use the family system to facilitate less conflict and pain between family members.
Trauma Recovery-EMDR
Josie uses Somatics to guide your ability to track and understand your clients’ needs as they learn to process and heal traumatic events. Gain a deeper understanding of how the body tells you when a client’s nervous system is coping well with therapy and when they are ready to dive into the core traumatic events. Josie also available to supervise Attachment-based EMDR developed by Laurel Parnell ( https://parnellemdr.com/) to support clients' reprocessing of traumatic events.
Neurodivergence
As a mother first of neurodivergent children, Josie has the invaluable insight and compassion for the the moment to moment challenges of both the child and the parent as they grow together. Through the use of her clinical knowledge and her lived experience, Josie will bring you a wealth of knowledge in how to support your neurodiverse clients and their family system.
Differential diagnosis is a passion of Josie’s that she will pass on to you so you can more skillfully assess when a client's challenges may be more than a mood disorder and instead is the result of ADHD or Level 1 Autism.
You will learn a variety of interventions that are neuroaffirming for the whole family. Many interventions for neuortypical kids do not work for neurodiverse kids. Become confident in knowing what skills support parents in their goal of creating a home and relationship that celebrates who their child is.
