Narrative Healing Therapy

08/27/2026

We’ve gotten really good at asking:
“How do I make this feeling stop?”

Sometimes a more useful question is:
“What might this feeling be telling me?”

That doesn’t mean we romanticize suffering or ignore symptoms that need attention. It means we make room for the possibility that discomfort isn’t always an emergency.

Sometimes the work is learning that we can feel something difficult without immediately needing to fix, avoid, numb, or outrun it.

Save this one for the next time your first instinct is to make an uncomfortable feeling disappear.

08/23/2026

Finding the right therapist is about more than feeling heard. It’s about feeling like you can show up as your whole self. 🤍

Rachael Bolaños Jackson, LMHC, brings warmth, creativity, and expressive arts into therapy. She especially enjoys working with people from diverse and historically excluded communities, with space to explore identity, relationships, anxiety, and life transitions.

Rachael offers telehealth therapy for adults across Iowa.

You deserve a therapy space where you can be fully you.

08/21/2026

Community care starts with connection.💛

This week, we packed up handwritten notes and referral cards and visited six college locations around the Des Moines area to introduce Narrative Healing and build stronger community partnerships.

Because finding the right therapist matters, and students deserve to know they have options.

Grateful for the warm welcomes, the conversations, and the opportunity to keep building connections that make mental health care a little easier to find.

08/19/2026

A little glimpse behind Narrative Healing today. 💛💜

Our owner, Jackie, took the day off to move her oldest into college.

Before she’s a therapist, practice owner, or supervisor, she’s a mom first.

Some moments are worth stepping away for, slowing down, and being fully present.

08/13/2026

Erika is out of office for the next few days doing something she generally loves: learning. 🤍

She is currently working through Level 1 Internal Family Systems (IFS) training, an intensive 90 hours of learning and practice across multiple training sessions.

What Erika appreciates most about IFS is the compassion behind it. Instead of defining ourselves by anxiety, grief, trauma, addiction, or the ways we have learned to cope, IFS helps us get curious about the different parts of ourselves and what they may be trying to protect.

For Erika, this perspective fits naturally with the trauma and EMDR work she already does with clients.

We love supporting our therapists as they continue growing, learning, and bringing new depth to the work they do. 🤍

08/10/2026

Back to college can bring a lot of excitement… and a lot of pressure.

New routines. New expectations. Changes in friendships and relationships. Questions about identity, the future, or whether you’re doing any of this “right.”

You don’t have to wait until things feel unmanageable to ask for support.

Katelyn is currently accepting new clients and especially enjoys working with college students and emerging adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, relationships, identity, and life transitions.

📍In-person in West Des Moines
💻 Telehealth available in Iowa
📩 Reach out through our website to connect with Katelyn

08/08/2026

Teachers, you spend all day showing up for everyone else. 🍎

Before the school year gets into full swing, make sure there’s some space on the calendar for you, too.

We currently have 3-7pm therapy appointments available for teachers and educators because therapy shouldn’t require taking PTO or trying to squeeze one more thing into an already packed school day.

📍West Des Moines + telehealth throughout Iowa
🔗 narrativehealingtherapy.com

Narrative Healing Therapy provides compassionate mental health counseling in West Des Moines, IA. Specializing in individual therapy, EMDR, trauma, and couples counseling.

08/04/2026

You don’t have to wait months to begin therapy.

Narrative Healing currently has immediate openings with clinicians who support teens and adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship concerns, identity exploration, and major life transitions.

Appointments available in person in West Des Moines and telehealth across Iowa.

Finding the right therapist matters. Send us a message or visit narrativehealingtherapy.com and we’ll connect you with a clinician who may be a good fit.

Narrative Healing Therapy provides compassionate mental health counseling in West Des Moines, IA. Specializing in individual therapy, EMDR, trauma, and couples counseling.

07/28/2026

We have openings!

Erika, Katelyn, and Rachael are currently accepting new clients for in-person and telehealth appointments.

Each brings a different style, background, and area of focus, making it easier to find someone who feels like the right fit.

Learn more about our team and request an appointment at narrativehealingtherapy.com.

07/25/2026

We’d like to be the first to officially introduce Dr. Jaclyn Dehner! 🎓✨

On Tuesday, Narrative Healing’s founder successfully defended her dissertation after years of research, writing, revising, and probably more coffee than anyone should admit to.

We are incredibly proud of this milestone.

Please help us congratulate Dr. Dehner! 🎉