About JP Frank

My clients call me playful, skillful, strong, and tender.
They also call me safe.

But what does safe really mean? I certainly don’t play it safe myself. I’m constantly confronting societal norms and leaning into the unfamiliar, and I’m often asking my clients to do the same. So, why do so many people use this word to describe how I work?

I believe it’s because of how I guide my clients into new and often unfamiliar ways of relating with their body, touch, and relationships.

Most of us need as much help setting limits as we do exploring what is possible. In every session, I guide you into this space of experimentation and self-advocacy. And this is where real transformation and healing can happen. 

Trained by relationships

Since 2009, I’ve offered body-based therapeutic services to people impacted by the US incarceration system, many in acute crisis. And although I’ve done training and read plenty of books by clinicians, no one has taught me more about how to hold space and support others than the people I’ve worked with. 

By supporting them, I learned about trauma and oppression.

Then, in 2016, I  began collaborating with people impacted by incarceration. Together we developed trauma-informed classes and trained hundreds of body-based practitioners, prison staff, and community members on trauma-informed yoga and social justice.

Through relationships and working together, I learned about healing and community.

Some of the other ways 

I’ve been schooled

My offerings are influenced by these experiences, people and organizations

  • A wild 2.5 years studying yoga and running a social entrepreneurship fellowship program in Hyderabad, India

  • Teaching over a thousand hours of trauma-informed embodiment classes in incarceration settings and getting constant feedback from participants

  • Touch professional “Like a Pro” training with Betty Martin and the School of Consent

  • Rhythm of Regulation: Polyvagal Theory in Therapy training with Deb Dana

  • Receiving EFT couples therapy and somatic coaching

  • Getting schooled in social justice and liberation:

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