Healing begins at the place where body and mind meet.
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”
Bell Hooks
Crossing life’s thresholds.
Life is a series of endings and beginnings. Jennifer specializes in supporting people through life’s most potent events. Death, birth, illness, terminal diagnosis, life & relationship transitions, recovery and other major life events.
Jennifer is skilled in helping her patients find hope, radical acceptance, healing and clarity as they navigate their unique life event and find empowerment in the void between what was and what will be
About Jennifer
Jennifer brings over 20 years of experience supporting individuals through life’s most potent thresholds. With a background in somatic bodywork, yoga therapy and meditation, Jennifer offers her patients an integrative mental health care experience.
Jennifer spent the first half of her professional life as a somatic practitioner supporting women navigating a variety of issues including eating disorders, menstrual and sexual health issues, fibromyalgia, prenatal and postpartum issues, anxiety, trauma and chronic pain. Before receiving her graduate education as a PMHNP, she spent 8 years as a hospice and palliative registered nurse and clinical director.
Jennifer has spoken and educated on integrative practices and continues to help other healthcare workers and providers learn how to better communicate about and hold space for the challenging thresholds our patients are navigating. Jennifer offers consulting services to organizations, providers and individuals in helping professions.
As a white woman in a supportive profession, Jennifer approaches her work with cultural humility. When holding space for others, she is mindful of the oppressive systems that add to collective, generational and cultural trauma. Her patient’s feelings of safety as it relates to race, culture and identity are priority.
Being human is hard. The goal is not to live without pain or suffering, but to be able to expand our capacity to hold our pain with compassionate awareness. Resiliency comes from being brave enough to sit with our pain, fear, discomfort, heartbreak, shame, grief, anger and uncertainty. Healing happens as we allow ourselves to feel our feelings, give voice to what has been silenced and create meaning and purpose out of our vulnerability. The gifts of this challenging work are deeper self-awareness and self-acceptance, more compassion, an expanded ability to feel gratitude and an empowered sense of self.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
