Jessa Hooley is a clinical somatic therapist, educator, and cofounder of Sonavé — an integrative pain clinic in Lehi, Utah that brings somatic, clinical, and medical providers together under one model of care. Her work focuses on the body-based treatment of complex trauma and chronic pain, and on training practitioners to integrate nervous system–informed modalities into their existing practice.

Jessa holds over 1,300 hours of professional training across The Polyvagal Institute, Pain Reprocessing Therapy®, the Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System (BBTRS Advanced Practitioner), Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises® and Neurogenic Yoga®, trauma-sensitive mindfulness meditation, therapeutic yoga, and sound therapy. She speaks and teaches on polyvagal theory in clinical application, breath and tremor-based trauma release, the somatic treatment of chronic pain, and recovery from complex childhood trauma.

She is also the author of The Emotional Literacy and Mindful Fables picture book series, written to support embodied healing and trauma prevention in children and the adults who care for them. Her work is grounded in the conviction that durable healing requires the body, not only the mind, and that the most effective care is collaborative, integrative, and trauma-informed at every layer.