About Me

Jasmine Adams, LCSW (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Long Beach, California.   She has practiced in a variety of settings: outpatient clinics, school setting, wraparound services, and substance abuse facilities since 2004. She has held a private practice since 2014, and is a Certified EMDR therapist through the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) and an Approved Consultant and Trainer.   Jasmine’s case conceptualization is through the anti-oppression lens and is therapy participant-centered, empowering her therapy participants to choose the healing process that works best for their specific needs. Furthermore, she strives to provide her therapy participant with self-empowerment tools and strategies, along with holding space for them to notice and better understand themselves.   She believes the therapy participant is the expert to their system. She has experience working with therapy participants who are seeking to heal from trauma with specialized expertise in oppression trauma, attachment trauma, medical trauma and other related chronic health needs, pregnancy loss, and other Perinatal Mental Health traumas.  Through her development as an EMDR therapist, Jasmine realized the value of incorporating the EMDR model into her own clinical voice and decolonize the therapeutic space, and as a trainer and consultant helps her trainees/consultees to do the same.  Jasmine has a particular passion to spread EMDR practices to intentionally marginalized communities (LGBTQIA, disabled/chronic health community, reproductive/body rights, people of color (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community) and help support other clinicians connected to these communities. Jasmine is part the BIPOC training team at the Institute for Creative Mindfulness (ICM). Jasmine is also a Perinatal Diva consultant with the Touchstone Institute. Jasmine has her PMH-C- perinatal mental health certification.  Jasmine also has her Advanced certificate of Dissociation from ICM and also utilizes parts work with therapy participants. Jasmine is the Interim Director of Deluxe EMDR Training with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness. Jasmine center’s her work on the inherent dignity and worth of every individual, regardless of differences. She advocates for equity, justice, and the empowerment of marginalized communities. She strives to foster environments where empathy, respect, and open dialogue cultivate learning, growth, and mutual understanding and respect.