With more than a decade dedicated to the mental health field, Jen has worked with individuals of diverse backgrounds and ages and at all levels of care. Her early career followed a conventional and highly academic path, marked by service on nationally renowned teams within large healthcare networks that valued excellent performance and measurable clinical outcomes. She made meaningful contributions within the field of psychoneuroimmunology and she challenged her fellow clinicians to consider new and deeper ways of looking at traditional psychiatric care. The work was important. But in a system built upon ever-increasing productivity demands and reductionist models of health, she was faced with the reality that authentic, whole-person healing would not be possible within the constraints of traditional medicine.

Jen transitioned into private practice so that she could chart an alternative path more aligned with her core beliefs: that nature and community hold incredible restorative powers; that play and creativity are not “leisure” but crucial elements of personhood; humans have an innate capacity to heal; that trauma disrupts the connection among our physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies; and that unlocking this wisdom requires attention and nurturing to all parts within these complex systems.

Jen’s clinical process is guided by intuition, grounded in science, and most importantly, tailored to the individual. She takes a warm, relational approach, where the therapy space is considered reverent and the client is an informed and active partner in creating their personal treatment plan.

Her modalities are varied and include elements of medication management (both pharmacological options as well as supplements and natural plant remedies), examination of lab review if indicated (including genetic testing to support medication decision making), mindfulness and meditation, and exploration of spirituality and connectedness.

With nearly all of her clients, she incorporates therapeutic work that is largely informed by Jungian principles, polyvagal theory, somatic experiencing, and inner child / internal family systems. She also enjoys helping individuals with exposure and response prevention therapy as a way of tackling higher-level defenses, such as obsessive-compulsive and panic symptoms, and finally, working with clients with executive dysfunction challenges.

She is currently pursuing training in psychedelic-assisted interventions as well as certification in forest and nature therapy as a way of creating more expansion and connection in the work she does with clients.