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About Jennifer

In whatever I do, I'm passionate about anti-oppression work, empowering individuals, families, and communities to reclaim their full sense of humanity. 

For over 20 years, I have worked in a wide range of clinical settings from schools, outpatient clinics, inpatient clinics, medical settings, Early Head Start, and home-based services.  I offer a diverse set of therapeutic services for children and teens, young adults, adults, families, and couples in order to support you to connect more deeply and fully with yourself, with others and with the world around you.  

My goal is to help you find wellness, healing, connection, compassion, and fulfillment in your life.  

I specialize in working with people struggling with:

  • Difficulties in relationship (romantic and/or familial);

  • Trauma (complex, developmental, and generational trauma);

  • Somatic disregulation (hypervigilance and dissociation);

  • Grief and loss;

  • Major life changes such as empty nesting, entering middle school, high school or college, adjusting to a new baby, new marriage, coping through a divorce, experiencing major medical conditions, and/or undergoing career changes;

  • Emotional distress such as depression, excessive worry, overwhelm, anger, and/or low self esteem;

  • Parenting and co-parenting challenges;

  • Racial equity, anti-oppression trauma, and 

  • Neurodivergent experiences.  

My practice rests on a strong foundation of clinical knowledge and research.  As a adjunct professor and lecturer at both USC and UCLA graduate programs of social work, I have a passion for knowledge and evidence-based practice that can be tailored to your particular situation and needs, to create an effective and sound treatment plan.  

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I can utilize many therapeutic models and can tailor our approach to fit those we work with

  • Gottman-Method Couples Therapy

  • Anxiety-based disorders (children and adult)

  • Depression (children and adult)

  • Early childhood development and attachment 

  • Adoption

  • Attachment Based Family Therapy

  • Emotionally-Focused Work

  • Parenting and Co-Parenting

  • Mindfulness and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Certifications:

  • ​​​LICENSE, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Board of Behavioral Science, (BBS) Los Angeles, California, 2006 

  • Level II Sensorimotor Psychotherapy trained and completed in 2019

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy - LEVEL II TRAINED completed 2014​

  • CERTIFIED SEXUAL ASSAULT COUNSELOR, The Rape Treatment Center, 90 hours completed 2005

  • DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNSELOR, Sojourn Services for Battered Women and Their Children, 40 hours state accredited training completed, 1997

  • CERTIFIED CHILD PARENT PSYCHOTHERAPY – Evidence-based, dyadic model for trauma survivors ages 0-5 and their caregivers, completed 2014

  • CERTIFIED MAP – Evidence-based psychotherapeutic intervention covering clinical areas of depression, anxiety, trauma and disruptive behavior, completed 2014

  • CERTIFIED Reflective Parenting facilitator – Utilizing the research of Peter Fonagy, this model promotes insight, mentalization and attachment relationship in a 10 week parenting curriculum

  • Trauma treatment models

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Interpersonal Depth Work

  • Somatic integration and regulation - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

  • Identity, Racial equity, and anti-oppression models

  • Internal Family Systems/Parts work

  • Gottman Couples Therapy

  • Grief and Loss Processing

Work Experience:

2012-Present

Clinical Training and Supervision

2014-2018

Professor

USC School of Social Work

2014-2018

Program Director

Psychological Care and Healing Treatment Center

2007-2017

Executive Director

Westside Domestic Violence Network

2011-2013

Lecturer

UCLA Department of Social Welfare

2009-2011

Program Coordinator

Early Head Start ​​

Services

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Couples Counseling

Relationships can be hard. We are hard-wired to be in connection with others so relationship distress can cause deep pain. I am here to support you in improved communication, emotional connection and repair, making difficult decisions together, fulfilling sex and intimacy, supportive co-parenting, navigating life changes, and helping each other through stressful times.

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Individual Therapy

Whether it is stress management, anxiety/panic, depression, grief, life stage changes, and/or coping with systemic/historic oppression, I am here to anchor your process in a safe space scaffolded to facilitate healing and positive change. I support people in their whole body experiences to help develop self insight, clarity, self compassion, and positive change.

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Child/Teen and Family Therapy

Times have been difficult for young people and their families. I utilize a developmental approach in supporting young people and their families in better connection, understanding, and support. I support kids/teens in expressing and understanding their feelings and developing positive strategies to handle difficult emotions.