Today we’d like to introduce you to Jamie Mosley.
Hi Jamie, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I grew up in poverty, and from a young age, I understood how instability and hardship impact families. That experience shaped the work I would later do.
I spent 20 years working in the Head Start program—Head Start is a federal, low-income early childhood program that supports children and families with education, nutrition, family services, and mental health resources. I became a family educator and spent two decades helping kids and families navigate generational trauma, poverty, and systemic barriers.
After 20 years, I realized I kept putting children back into systems that didn’t have enough support around them. That’s what inspired me to go back to school and become a mental health therapist.
One semester into graduate school, my 17-year-old son died by suicide. In that moment, I didn’t think anyone would ever want therapy from someone who was grieving. I felt like my future disappeared.
But I had an incredible therapist who told me,
“Jamie, do you think therapists don’t have their own stuff?”
That changed everything for me.
With her support, I finished the program, healed, and found meaning again.
In 2018, I founded Conscious Healing Counseling with three core values: Serving, Connection, and Community. I wanted to build the therapy practice I wished existed—where therapists are supported as humans, and where clients experience deep care and trauma-responsive treatment.
We now serve communities across Anoka County, including our partnership with the Anoka County Juvenile Center supporting youth with complex trauma.
In 2022, I founded The Justin Center for Transformation & Healing—a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention, postvention, and caring for helping professionals experiencing burnout and vicarious trauma. Starting in 2026, we will host free monthly support groups for helping professionals.
Most recently, I launched Conscious Insights Coaching, because when I started my business, I felt lost and isolated. I wanted to give other leaders the support I never had.
We are also partnering with Storyteller Café to offer trauma-responsive programming for trafficked and exploited women in Anoka County beginning in 2026.
My story is rooted in lived experience, loss, community, and healing. Everything I build comes from that understanding.Today, CHC is deeply embedded in the Anoka County community. We collaborate directly with:
• Anoka County Juvenile Center
• Alex House (domestic violence shelter)
• Anoka County Workhouse
• St. Francis Schools
• Ampersand (supporting adoptive and foster families)
• The Dwelling Place (domestic violence programming)
Family Preservation Program with Anoka County Children’s mental health a program that helps families who have been identifited as a family needed more support after a CPS call
We go directly into these spaces, because many people cannot get stable access to mental health care on their own. Our model removes transportation barriers, insurance confusion, waitlists, and fear. If someone can’t get to us, we go to them.Everything I do—every organization, every collaboration—comes back to one mission:
to remove barriers to healing,
to meet people where they are,
and to build communities where people are seen, supported, and never alone.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It has definitely not been a smooth road. Growth rarely is—especially when you’re building something from scratch in a field that is emotionally demanding and constantly changing.
There have been several challenges along the way. When we expanded locations, we had to shut down an entire site almost overnight due to a sudden insurance issue with Blue Cross Blue Shield. There have been complaints, misunderstandings, and difficult staffing moments, including credentialing challenges and situations requiring leadership decisions no one ever trains you for.
Financially, every time you grow, you take a risk. You stretch every dollar and hope it works. There were many times where expanding felt like stepping into a financial cliff and trusting the road would appear.
A big part of the struggle has also been internal. I’ve wrestled with self-doubt and shame—this feeling of “Who do I think I am to build this?” That comes directly from my own conditioning and how I was raised. Some of that story is a foundational part of my book, Shattered Unicorns.
And I move fast. I have vision, urgency, and momentum. Sometimes that has been a gift. And sometimes, it overwhelms people or causes friction. Slowing down has been a learning process for me. Not every door needs to be kicked open on day one.
I’ve learned that growth is not linear. It’s messy, humbling, exhausting, beautiful, and worth it.
What has carried me through is community, resilience, and remembering why I started in the first place.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
My work sits at the intersection of trauma healing, community care, and leadership. Through Conscious Healing Counseling, we provide trauma-responsive services for individuals, couples, teens, and children. I specialize in trauma, grief, and complex PTSD, and much of my clinical work is grounded in EMDR and attachment-based approaches.
What makes us unique is that we are grounded in three core values: Community, Connection, and Serving. I built CHC to be relational at its core. We want the whole person to come to work—not just the polished professional identity, but the real human being behind it. Our culture encourages vulnerability, compassion, and curiosity while still holding high expectations and accountability.
I am known for seeing people deeply and clearly—seeing their strengths, gifts, and potential with ease—and also recognizing where growth needs to occur. And I help people grow from a caring, human-centered space. That’s one of my superpowers.
We have many neurodivergent team members, and instead of approaching challenges with pressure or shame, we approach them with creativity and support. When documentation became difficult for some therapists, we didn’t punish—we designed support systems. We built commitment plans, resilience strategies, coaching structures, and even connected staff to ADHD coaches. We focus on support before correction, always.
CHC has also become a one-stop model for care, so clients can access therapy, medication management, and (soon) assessments under one roof. That’s intentional—we want to remove barriers so people can get what they need without having to navigate multiple systems.
What I am most proud of is the culture we’ve built.
A culture where therapists feel supported.
Where people feel seen and cared for.
Where compassion and accountability coexist.
Where no one has to pretend they are fine.
And what sets us apart is this:
We go where people are.
We collaborate throughout the twin cities
We support the whole person—client and clinician.
We deeply believe in community healing.
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that healing and progress rarely happen in straight lines. It’s messy, imperfect, nonlinear and deeply human. But I’ve also learned that obstacles are not the end of the story.
Growing up in poverty taught me that when the door is closed, you find a window. When the road is blocked, you build another path. People will tell you something can’t be done and you do it anyway.
When I started Conscious Healing Counseling, I was told flat-out that I would never be able to build a successful mental health practice in Anoka County because of stigma. Today, we are one of the largest providers in the area, collaborating across the county to increase access where it’s needed most.
That has shaped how I lead:
barriers are not dead ends — they are invitations to get creative.
Some of my best, most innovative ideas and programs were born in moments when it looked like there was no way forward. Poverty taught me resourcefulness. Grief taught me strength. Leadership taught me resilience.
So, the greatest lesson?
Don’t quit.
Get creative.
Support people fiercely.
And believe in what others can’t see yet.
Because transformation often begins with someone simply refusing to give up.
Pricing:
- Coaching starting from 150.
- Sessions: We take insurance or sliding scale or private pay. Private pay starts with 200.00 a session
- We take Medicad and Medicare
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.conscioushealingcounseling.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/conscioushealingcounseling/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Conscioushealingcounseling/
- Other: https://www.thejustincenter.org/
