Welcome to Light Heart Therapy

We are located in downtown Napa, Ca and offer in-person and telehealth therapy services. Our licensed therapists, Lawanda Jackson (she/her) and Phoenix Jackson (she/they), are passionate about working with people who often feel left out, in-between worlds, or like they don’t belong in some way with their family, communities, or cultures at large. We work with people who color outside the lines.

If this feels like you, you are not alone. We know what it’s like to feel different and excluded. We can speak from our own experiences that what makes you different is the very thing that makes you special and worthy of living your best life!

At Light Heart Therapy, we’ll support you in turning your inner light (your awareness) towards your truths, the life you desire, and explore what’s in the way of that.  We celebrate your humanity and uphold your resilience, strength, courage, and beauty, even if you can’t yet see and feel it yourself.

Meet Phoenix & Lawanda

Somatic Therapy: A Path Toward Deep Healing

Both Lawanda’s and Phoenix’s clinical approaches are informed by body-oriented or somatic psychotherapy. Somatic psychotherapy includes the body in the therapeutic process. This is important because we all have bodies. Our bodies are living and experiencing life. Our bodies feel sadness, stress, trauma, joy, love, excitement, and more. Our thinking makes sense of the world around us and enables us to formulate stories about what we know to be true. Before that, our bodies have an experience through our physical senses. Our memories and our stories are in the tissues of our bodies. If we listen, we have the power to gain awareness around unconscious behaviors, thought patterns, and ways of relating to ourselves and others. That awareness opens the door to new ways of being that are more aligned with the goals we have and the life we want. When we step fully into our bodies, we can step fully into our lives; we can learn to trust ourselves and know that we play a role in the creation of our lives.  We would love to support you in tapping into your body’s wisdom so that you can feel free and empowered in your life. 

  • Lawanda's medium brown skinned hand with her yellow sapphire diamond cluster wedding ring on the torso of a white bodied person's torso. The white bodied person is wearing a medium grey sweatshirt & has two hands on lower belly and heart.

    Therapeutic Touch

    Safe, therapeutic touch combined with therapy can reach the places inside that words alone cannot. Experience the profound healing of touch. Learn more…

  • Torso of white bodied person wearing grey t-shirt cutoff at the shoulders and silhouettes of two birds circling each other. The person is holding their hands on their chest and belly.

    Body Awareness

    Connecting to our bodies is how we know our boundaries, our needs, and our desires. Connect to your body and feel empowered in your life. Learn more…

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    Relationship to Yourself & Others

    Your relationship to yourself impacts your relationships with others in every single aspect of your life. Let’s explore how you think, feel, and act towards yourself. Learn more…

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    EcoTherapy

    Ready to heal what’s inside while you’re outside? It’s our nature to be well. The natural world is inherently healing. Learn more…

Ode to Light

We need the light to perceive, to warm, and to shape the structure of the world. 

We acknowledge that light is a constant without which we could not exist. 

We take the high roads to stay in the light longer.

We need light to guide our ways, and each other to test our realities.

We acknowledge and are not ashamed of our unknown shadows and mysteries of life. We commit to learn about and heal ourselves as our gifts to the world.

Our light warms with attention, intention and care. We want to be well with you. We want to meet your Light Heart.