Steffanie Jensen

Steffanie Jensen is an LMSW that specializes in betrayal trauma for partners of

sex/pornography addiction as well as working with those struggling with sex/pornography 

addiction.

She loves working with people from all populations, has a passion for helping others

achieve their full potential, and build self-worth by helping them figure out the best

quality of well-being that they feel their life has to offer.

She feels strong empathy, compassion, understanding, and human connection with her

clients, and is able to help individuals move forward by applying evidence based

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Spiritual/Holistic Therapy. She believes that these six

areas of wellness are essential to bringing overall well-being to each person’s life:

physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, social, and self-care.

BETRAYAL TRAUMA AND SEX/PORN ADDICTION

Steffanie specializes in and has great passion and success working with individuals,

couples and groups struggling with:

• Sex/pornography addiction
• Betrayal Trauma

Through individual, couples and group therapy, Steffanie is able to bring hope and

greater understanding to those suffering the effects of betrayal trauma and

sex/pornography addiction. Steffanie educates individuals and couples and assists them in

moving forward through the heartbreak and pain.  She is able to offer hope to the

possibility of healing individuals and relationships by increasing safety/trust building

skills to repair the relationship.

To the partners suffering from betrayal trauma, she offers empathy, compassion, validation,

understanding, and hope. Steffanie facilitates the Hope After Heartbreak betrayal

trauma group for women to work on their own recovery.

To those struggling with sex/pornography addiction, she teaches skills and tools to help

them manage their addiction and provide safety training so they are able to rebuild trust 

with their partner. She is also able to direct them to Centerpoint’s men’s Facing the Shadow 

group and SA Lifeline 12 Step Meetings.

Steffanie also works with individuals with mental health issues, including:  

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
• Motivational Enhancement Therapy (ME)
• Moral Reconation Therapy
• Depression and anxiety
• Low self-worth and self-esteem
• Healthy Boundary Management and Safety Skills
• Couples Therapy
• Divorce
• Communication Skills
• Peer Relationships
• Spiritual Crisis and Confusion
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Suicidal ideation
• Integrates Music into therapy treatment

• 2021 Emotional Focused Therapy Training for couples working through Betrayal Trauma and marital issues
• 2018  Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Basic Training Completion 
• 2017  Northwest Nazarene University – Licensed Master Social Worker with a concentration in addiction and additional education in mental health.
• 2015 Trained in Motivational Interviewing
• 2014  Brigham Young University-Idaho – Bachelor of Science in Social Work2012  Brigham Young University-Idaho – Associate of Arts in General Studies
• 2017  Therapist at Upper Valley Resource and Counseling Center, working with all mental health issues and substance abuse in individual and group therapy. Taught adult DBT, MRT, and ME group therapy, and juvenile group DBT and MRT therapy 

•  Graduate Internship at D7 Treatment (Drug Court) working with Substance Abuse Disorders
• Undergrad Internships at South Fork and Midway Elementary Schools and Rigby High School 
• Was asked by the Rigby Counseling Department and Rigby High School Administration to present an Anti-Pornography assembly to the staff and students at Rigby High School in 2017
• Therapist at Upper Valley Resource and Counseling Center, working with all mental health issues and substance abuse in individual and group therapy. Taught adult DBT, MRT, and ME group therapy, and juvenile group DBT and MRT therapy

Steffanie Jensen was born in SLC, Utah, and has also lived in Scottsbluff, Nebraska,

Idaho Falls, Idaho, and is a Madison High School graduate of our great town of

Rexburg, Idaho. She loves living in Rexburg and working with the locals as well as the

diversity of working with the Brigham Young University-Idaho students. 

Before completing her degree, Steffanie taught piano and cello for almost 30 years. She

loves to play in the Idaho Falls or Rexburg symphonies when time allows, and listens to

music all day. Family is very important to Steffanie! She spends time with her family during

her free time, and loves being a grandma. She is married to her high school sweetheart, and has

4 children, three girls and one boy. They love to go camping, boating, traveling, and

playing games as much as possible with one another.