Jane Kilmer, LCSW

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Jane Kilmer, LCSW

Jane is a licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, Craniosacral Therapist and Spinal Integration Practitioner specializing in trauma and nervous system unwinding.

Somatic Psychotherapy is a holistic therapy that works with the relationship between the mind and body in regard to our psychological past and present. Emotions, memories, and sensations associated with past trauma and stress may become trapped within the body, disrupt the autonomic nervous system and result in physical and emotional challenges. In Somatic therapy, we increase bodily and emotional awareness, unwind and release stress and trauma, and give the body and mind an opportunity to find new, more functional patterns and ways of being. In a session, this could look like nervous system settling practices, dialoguing with the body and other parts work, therapeutic tremoring and unwinding exercises, guided meditations and visualizations, movement or breath work. Interwoven with our somatic work together, we address past and current issues that come up with a Humanistic and Family Systems lens to explore your specific path to safety and healing. This work can be beneficial for those who have never had therapy and also helpful for those who have had therapy but feel like it has not integrated into their body and nervous system.

06/05/2025

You are invited to join us for an afternoon of bodywork on one of the most potent days of the year, the summer solstice! Katie and Jane will weave together three deeply complementary modalities for you to receive throughout the afternoon, all supporting your body’s innate alignment, vitality, and connection to health. Each individual will receive hands-on care, specific to their needs, within two group sessions. Our small group setting allows for shared presence, rest, and healing in community.

Summer Solstice Restoration
With Jane Kilmer, LCSW and Katie Parker, LMT
Saturday, June 21
1 pm - 5 pm

Schedule:
12:45 pm - arrival & settle in
1 pm - welcome, introductions, meditation
2 pm - receive a session in a group setting
3 pm - break, snacks
3:30 pm - receive a session in a group setting
4:30 pm - integration, closing circle

Location:
East Nashville

Exchange: $200

DM to secure your spot!

04/18/2025

Children often respond to and learn Spinal Integration strategies more quickly than adults.

By removing and reorganizing tension and interference in the spine, we can improve nervous system functioning which can affect your kiddo on multiple levels with things like: improved sleep and appetite, immune functioning, and regulation.

DM me or visit jane-kilmer.com for more information.

02/24/2025

Whoa. Do you feel the rise of ✨divine feminine energy✨ and the rise of an
🌎earthly fem revolution? 💪🏼

Last week during a meditation, I saw a beautiful image of Yin-leading folks holding hands across the world, supporting and rising up together! 💫

Relationships are DEEPENING. We are coming together in more vulnerability to validate and hold each other‘s complexity— the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional within us.

And when we come together to tell each other “I see you. You make sense,” we are sharing ideas with each other. And those ideas sure as hell will not look like capitalism or maximizing profit over people. Those new ideas will not include imperialism or war or genocide. It won’t include the DSM or colonialist therapy. It won’t include poisoning our earth and our bodies. It will not include “leaning in” to old corporate structures.

These ideas *will* include vulnerability and compassion and love and nurturing and honoring of things we can’t see or explain. Respect and care for the earth. For our bodies. For our spirits. Cooperation and care for each other. Healing modalities that include and validate the whole person. It will include the emergence of science and magic—magic, actually being science—a new non-materialist science. It will include wildness and strength and a wide range of emotion.

The age of Aquarius has been rumbling for a while. We were hoping we could skip the hard part. Hoping we could skip the chaos. But that’s not how chaos and reorganization work. Remember on election night, when we all woke up in the middle of the night at the same time, knowing that we couldn’t avoid the unraveling? Grief and fear and rage were there. Are still here. But there is also a deeper knowing and excitement that THIS IS IT. The shift is now. THIS IS PATRIARCHY’S LAST DYING BREATH. The last gasping breath OF ALL SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION.

Women: RISE UP. Men in touch with this energy: RISE UP. Q***r folks: KEEP RISING UP.

It’s time to start living out these ideas and bring on the New Earth!✨

08/26/2024

Hello community,

I have some new day time availability for ongoing therapy (weekly or bi-weekly) on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11am, 12pm, or 1pm. As well as a couple of bi-weekly evenings still available for fall. (Evenings go quickly so DM if interested.)

✨What does a typical virtual somatic therapy session with me look like?

The first half of a session looks like a traditional talk therapy session where we check in to see what has been going on for you. This can include what's going well, what's not, and how your self care has been. We then intentionally drop into the body with a guided meditation, which sometimes includes therapeutic tremoring (an exercise for reawakening an innate stress relieving mechanism in our body). From there, we do parts work (Somatic Internal Family Systems) to connect, feel and dialogue with our body and our internal psychological parts through visualization, intuition and emotion.

✨Who do I work with?

I work with adults struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, and overwhelm. Other common issues include relationships, family of origin, religious and spiritual shifts, grief, and life transitions. This work can be beneficial for those who have never had therapy and also helpful for those who have had therapy (or are therapists themselves) but feel like their work has not integrated into their body and nervous system.

You can find more info on my website--
Jane-Kilmer.com. ✨

12/11/2023

No matter how someone connects to a transcendent state-- meditation, medicine, near death experience, etc., there is one message that everyone always "brings back" with them:

WE ARE ONE.

And though our earthly brains cannot comprehend the fullness of this truth in this lifetime, it remains a reality, not just a cliche phrase.

And that is why we cannot focus solely on our own individual healing and wellness.
Our health is bound together. Our hope is bound together. Our pain is bound together. Our liberation is bound together.

We cannot be healers without looking outward. We cannot be fully healed without working for collective liberation and well-being for all.

Our healing is bound together.

We are one.

08/16/2023

I just got back from a two month road trip with my family out west, with a long stay in our beloved San Francisco reconnecting with community there. Feeling refreshed and rejuvenated and ready to settle back into a couple more months of southern summer! ☀️

Starting in September, I’ll have two virtual psychotherapy slots available (weekly or biweekly). And I’m also still offering as-needed in-person Craniosacral Therapy, Wednesday through Saturday evenings in East Nashville. Hoping to see some new faces! ✨

Message me or get more info at Jane-Kilmer.com.

10/26/2022

What incorporating a client’s spirit and spiritual beliefs into my therapy practice means to me:

I'm passionate about holding space for my clients to bring their holistic selves to our sessions together and this often includes a clients' spirituality.

Way beyond not pathologizing a client's spiritual beliefs, I welcome them into our session and find that integrating them adds depth, beauty and infinite resources to our work together. Whether you work with Allah/God, Spirit, the Great Mystery, the Trinity, gods, saints, ancestors or spirit guides, I welcome them.

For those who are triggered by or uninterested in labels and framework, we work with your inner knowing, intuition or soul self in order to rebuild trust in yourself. And for atheists or those that want to keep their spiritual life private, I welcome a sole focus on the innate wisdom of the body.

✨There is space for your whole self in your work with me.✨

Incorporating the spirit and spiritual beliefs of a client doesn't mean that we will be "spiritually bypassing" the work of processing difficult emotions, patterns and past trauma. We will not be operating from "high vibes only" and always allow every part of ourselves to speak, feel and remember. It also does not mean we disregard our critical or analytical mind.

If you're interested in therapy that involves the holistic self - body, mind, spirit and emotions, feel free to reach out! I look forward to chatting with you.✨

09/30/2022

Friends, I’m really excited about the 12 week reset program that I started this summer. This program is a culmination of the healing practices I've learned, practiced and taught the last two decades, and it's what I needed during my own chaotic Saturn Return.

Together, we explore a healing process that's unique to you that involves connection with your body, spirit and emotions, as well as put together a comprehensive self-care plan for you to continue the work after the 12 weeks is over.

Some of the things we will do together in this program:

✨Learn how to listen to your body and explore the relationship between body and emotions

✨Practice listening to your spirit - your inner knowing and/or divine connection

✨Nervous system settling practices

✨Parts Work you can do yourself

✨The Therapeutic Tremor - an innate unwinding process for releasing inhibited fight or flight responses

✨Process current issues and explore the past

✨Begin to shift old patterns and create new, more easeful ways of being

✨Goal planning and habit implementation

Could this program be for you or someone you know? DM me or visit my website at jane-kilmer.com for more info.

07/20/2022

Excited to be teaching a Somatics workshop this Friday at Magical Mentorship Summer Camp. ✨💫🏕

06/13/2022

Our goal is flow.

“High vibes only” can lead to spiritual bypassing.

Flow allows us to ride the waves, where we learn to invite sadness and grief, anger, fear, shame and joy to 🌊 roll right through us. 🌊

Without flow, we can get stuck in chronic depression, anxiety, or numbness.

In somatic healing work, we learn to be present with our bodies and our feelings, which are inextricably linked.

We let every part of ourselves speak, feel and remember without judgment.

✨Our goal is not to fix. But to feel.❤️

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http://www.jane-kilmer.com/

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