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 unfolds through a series of endings and beginnings. At times, something in life shifts and asks for your attention in a deeper way.
I specialize in supporting individuals through meaningful transitions, including grief and loss, birth and postpartum changes, PMDD and other hormonally influenced mood shifts, illness, trauma, relationship changes, recovery, and other significant life experiences.
These moments can feel uncertain or unsteady. They often affect not only your emotional wellbeing, but also your physical balance, shaping your mood, your identity, and your sense of self.
My work is to help you make sense of what you are experiencing, while gently attending to the connection between your psychological, emotional, and physiological health.
Together, we create space for clarity, self understanding, and a more grounded sense of hope as you move through the space between what has been and what is still becoming.
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.
Prior to her work as a PMHNP, she spent close to a decade working in hospice and palliative care. She is uniquely qualified to support individuals navigating the unique mental health challenges that exist within the realm of terminal diagnosis, end of life and grief.
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
