About Dr. Brian Jensen | Best Psychotherapist & Counselor in Sonora, CA

Brian integrates a synthesis through years of education (AA-Ph.D.), over two and half decades working in Colleges and Universities, combining 30+ years of seminars, workshops, trainings, and his own psychotherapy private practice since 2003. He attributes an enormous contribution in the healing fields is through his personal healing experiences through embodying the process, not dictating to others. He also believes even more important than the years committed to the field is treating people with respect, thoughtfulness, kindness, consideration blended with clear, respectful boundaries (Human), and ultimately people’s own humanity reawakes to guide them.

Mainstream experiences, consists of 24 years as a College/University faculty member, the first seven among College of Marin, Napa Valley College, and Dominican University of California, and the final 17 with Columbia College, teaching Counseling, Guidance, Humanities, and Psychology courses, with a special emphasis working with exceptional student populations, such as Students with Disabilities, EOPS/CARE, Mental Health, Re-entry, and Veterans for Academic, Career, and Personal Counseling. A ‘Tenured Faculty’ member, retiring now to the extremely proud status as ‘Faculty Emeritus’.

Brian’s education consists of a few Master’s degrees: Counseling, Psychology and Somatic Psychology with a Ph.D. in Psychology.

Professional Licensure: Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), and Licensed Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCCMHC), and a National Board-Certified Counselor (NCC).

Although being in private practice since 2003, he began in 1994 as a volunteer Grief and Bereavement Counselor, College Peer Counselor, and eventually a Trainee and Intern towards multiple Licensures.

As a psychotherapist who highly incorporates Somatic Psychotherapy with mainstream therapeutic approaches, his applied or hands on experiences in body work consisting of Massage, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, and Structural Integration Therapies, beginning in 1989, highly enhanced his Somatic (mind-body) Psychotherapy and attunement into his present work. Additionally, he is fluid in the three of the main Somatic psychotherapy approaches through the Hakomi Institute of California, Somatic Experiencing International Trauma Institute (SEP), and the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (Certified).