Hello, I’m Jennifer (she/her). Life may feel overwhelming right now but you’re in the right place. Sometimes, you need to talk to someone who will listen and help you process trauma, complex family situations, and life experiences.
Therapy and counseling is about healing, learning, and growing. I see my clients from a psychodynamic, cultural, and attachment lens. This means that I work with clients with an understanding that our early experiences and relationships can have a profound impact on our current well-being and that attachment is a very important part of who we are.
I also work with clients on regulating their nervous system and how to recognize signs within their body of trauma, anger, and dysregulation. I also see people from a cultural and identity lens and understand how your lived experiences need to be understood and honored in the therapy room.
I believe that the therapy relationship is an intimate, and important one. The therapy environment, whether it be in office or through tele-health, should feel safe, warm, and judgement free. The work that you and I do in therapy will facilitate healing and existential curiosity. I provide a safe, affirming, and judgement free therapy environment.
I am an Indigenous person of
Peruvian descent and am also ethnically Jewish. I was raised in a multi-racial household after being adopted at the age of 4. I love animals and have cats, dogs, and a bearded dragon.
I have a Masters Degree in Community Counseling, am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and a Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor (CADC). Professionally, I’ve worked in a variety of settings from hospitals and end of life settings, substance use programs, with chronic and terminal illness, and with the LGBTQIA+ community. I have special interests in culture and identity, adoption, complex trauma, and complex grief.
My scope of practice is:
- Individual & Couples therapy
- Culturally Responsive Therapy
- Adoption and Family of Origin Issues
- Substance Use
- Mood disorders
- Nervous System Regulation
- Trauma specialties: chronic illness, chronic pain, end of life, grief, adoption and family complexities, healing after conversion therapy, survivors of violent crimes, compassion fatigue
- PTSD and anxiety
- I work with mental health and medical professionals
- LGBTQIA+ affirming