Jen uses a unique method of therapy that quickly helps you identify your core issues and patterns, understand and resolve conflicts, and feel better fast. By identifying and clearing up the barriers, you get back to living your life more fully than before.
Since 1999, Jen has provided:
- Therapy for adults with anxiety, depression, self-defeating patterns, and harsh self-judgment,
- Counseling for couples dealing with affairs, disconnection, abuse, or infertility
- Therapy for Ministers and other Therapists and Counselors.
Training & Experience
Since obtaining an MSW in clinical social work from Catholic University, Jen has expanded her skills through advanced professional training, enabling her to bring the right approach to each client’s unique challenges. Her training includes:
- Imago Relationship Therapist Certification (2007 – 2010)
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (2007 – 2009)
- Couples’ Sex Therapy (six months training, 2005)
- Advanced, post-graduate, certificate in Clinical Program on Psychotherapy Practice at the Washington School of Psychiatry (2002 – 2006)
- Therapy to resolve and heal Trauma (since 2005)
- Somatic Imagery and Ego State Therapy training (2005 – 2010)
- Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (2005 – 2010)
- Cognitive Therapy (2002)
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy (2010)
- Sand Tray Method (2003 – 2005)
- Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems (2009 – 2011)
Jen also brings a special understanding to the unique challenges facing Washington, DC professionals, having spent more than 15 years in politics and advocacy as a campaign manager and executive director with national organizations. She holds a BA from Macalester College.