I’m jennie (she)

I am a white-bodied, queer, radical-hearted, trauma-healing-focused therapist and social worker. I am intimately committed to embodiment practices that align with my core values that all bodies have the inherent right to safety, dignity, and belonging. I joyfully work at the intersections of internal healing, grief-letting, emotional and spiritual growth, and liberatory organizing focused on building strength across lines of difference and connection. I work in service of my own and our collective liberation. I believe in abolition, harm-reduction, and truth that people grow and change as orienting philosophies and active practices. I believe in the necessity of compassion and curiosity as primary conduits for recognizing the abundance life has to offer when we are present and connected to our authentic power and each other. My work is offered through my sole proprietorship, Connection & Repair.

To learn more about me, my therapeutic orientations, and organizing principles, please read on.

I have advanced training and experience teaching Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, the clinical application of polyvagal theory as taught through Deb Dana’s rhythm or regulation material, harm reduction psychotherapy, and mindfulness-based, embodied social justice practices. 

All my growth is deeply indebted to many beloved teachers, primary of which include the teaching, wisdom, heart and practices of: Alison Muyskens, Ann Sinko, dearly departed Candace Saunders, my clients and colleagues at AIDS Action, David Clark, the team at Healthcare for the Homeless Cambridge/Boston, Pat Mahr, Paula Cushner, Mark McGovern, Pattie Heyman, Deb Dana, Lyssa Paluay, Rev angel Kyodo williams, Jasmin Seydullah, Lama Rod Ownes, artemisia shine, kerri kelly, Patrisse Cullors, gina breedLove, Resmaa Menakem, Dr. Ruby Gibson, Manuela Mischke Reeds, Dr. Jennifer Mullans, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, adrienne maree brown, AUTUMN, Prentis Hemphill, Cole Arthur Riley, Andrea Gibson, Mary Oliver, Jeanette Winterson, Francis Weller, Martín Prechel. Among many others, including all sentient life.

For more about how to work together, please check out ‘Services.’

I come from the medicine of whooping, shouting, rejoicing in the rain; from wind song, and the rush, rush, rushing of ocean waves; from climax and trough, 

Big highs, low-lows

From birch, and crow, and deer and crane; from breath-in, birth; breath-out, death

Unafraid and terrified, courage-

Able to hold grief and praise in the palm of both hands

Salt water, sand, bog and brine, dogwood and weeping willows,

Heart-broken open over and over by both beauty and despair,

I come from the medicine of grappling with shame, unworthiness, addiction and recovery

From moon cycles and her tides, 

Rhythms of constant change, music to my ears

Moonstreaks illuminating me forward,

Ahead of my time, leading my tribe