Bio

Jennifer is a marriage and family therapist, licensed in Hawaii, Utah, Florida and Colorado. She is a play therapist, and a certified trauma professional with over 20 years experience working with children/adolescents, families, couples and individuals. She utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Family Systems, Solution focused, Dialetic behavior therapy, EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), Psychodynamic, and Client Centered modalities. She works from a systems prospective and believes that childhood is our internship to life. She works with the belief that any maladaptive coping mechanisms were learned in childhood and were designed to help us survive our family of origin. These maladaptive coping skills can be broken and we can learn new and healthy coping skills that help us thrive and live a full life.

She earned a masters degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy from Chaminade University, and is also a Certified Trauma Professional and EMDR trained. She is a Play Therapist and has extensive experience working with children of all ages who have social/emotional or behavioral problems in community mental health, school and residential treatment settings. She also has extensive experience in treating adult couples, individuals, and families, including military service members and veterans. Being a veteran, military spouse, and with her work as a military family life counselor, she is well versed and has specialized understanding of the unique stressors faced by the nation’s warriors and their families. She has helped clients address a wide variety of mental health concerns and psychological trauma. She also is trained and has many years of experience working with first responders and their unique needs.

Jennifer provides evidence-based therapy that can help patients to overcome relationship issues, parenting concerns, stress and anger management, mood and anxiety disturbances, life transitions, ADHD and a wide variety of other counseling issues. She believes the most effective way to assist clients is by creating a supportive, understanding, non-judgemental environment in which clients can gain insight, communicate effectively, and learn coping skills to promote positive change in all aspects of their lives. Jennifer is supportive of LBGTQ+ and alternative lifestyle’s.