Dr. Jenna is a White, cisgender female, queer parent of two children- one with a chronic disability.  She focused her graduate education and clinical training at Palo Alto University on Diversity and Community Mental Health. Working together may include fostering new perspectives, engaging in action-oriented change/skills, compassionate acceptance, and understanding or processing specific stressors.

Dr. Jenna's specialty areas include:

• Trauma-informed treatment with youth/families presenting with mood and anxiety-related symptoms

• Compassionate and Mindful Parenting approaches to manage developmental/behavioral, mood, and anxiety-related concerns

• Adults working through impacts of childhood trauma on mental health and well-being 

• Collaborative Assessment and treatment with neurodiverse, gender/sexually diverse youth and adults

As a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, she is also certified as a Child and Adolescent Trauma Professional (IATP). Her passion is to serve folx through a trauma informed and person centered lens, focusing therapeutic work on incorporating personal strengths, belief systems, and values. She utilizes mindfulness and compassion practices, as well as interventions focused on better understanding patterns that lead to distress to make effective and meaningful changes with self and relationships. She believes that therapy is a collaborative process, bridging her knowledge and skills with your goals and commitment to the work.  Dr. Jenna is invested in helping map supports and resources that are realistic and attainable to help you progress towards meaningful change.

Dr. Jenna's approach to therapy is relational and experiential. She integrates cognitive, emotional, and play/somatically based interventions. Your work together may involve use of mindfulness, compassion focused therapy, trauma informed perspectives, emotion focused therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and parent child interaction techniques focused on the neurobiology of relationship attachment and emotion regulation.

Dr. Jenna's career experience has included:

• Individual/Family psychotherapy with adults, youth, and families in community mental health, school based, and medical health settings

• Supervision/training of post doctoral residents in psychotherapy and psychological assessment. Specializing in supervision of gender/sexual diversity, neurodiversity, trauma informed perspectives, and high risk behaviors/severity of symptoms in teens

• Psychological assessment for youth and adults considering autism spectrum diagnosis and mental health diagnostic considerations for folx with complex trauma

• Group Therapy & Curriculum development on Mindfulness & Relational training for young children and caregivers, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills class for suicidal and self-harming pre/teens and their caregivers, process oriented groups for middle schoolers and sexually/gender diverse+ teens, Trauma Skills group for adults, Parenting Neurodiversity Support Group

• Intensive Outpatient Programs with middle schoolers/teens and their families including risk/safety assessments following or in preventing psychiatric hospitalization, Middle School Intensive Outpatient Program, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills class, Brief Family Focused Therapy track for high conflict teens/caregivers or those struggling with severity of depressive symptoms and with suicidal ideation and/or self-harm behaviors

• Care coordination and case management with community resources (clinics, schools, health care providers, etc.) for clients enrolled in intensive outpatient program and/or other more intensive treatment settings, families navigating support for youth with autism spectrum diagnosis, advocacy/connecting/supporting transition process with medical related transition services for gender expansive youth

• Training/Presentations: Autism & ADHD Differential Assessment; Sexual & Gender Diversity; Dialectical Behavior Therapy; Compassion Focused Therapy; Planning, Assessing and Documenting Risk/Safety; CPS Assessment and Reporting; Trauma Informed Care; Compassionate Self Care; Collaborative Assessment