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meet Dr. Jennifer Harris
About Me
I am a trauma-informed counselor who works with what helped me in my own journey: at the intersection of compassion and choice. I help people understand their stories in ways that lead to real, lasting change.
My work is grounded in narrative (story) work and embodied emotional healing. I specialize in holding tensions that are often kept apart: hope and present reality, kindness and truth, understanding and change.
I work from an integrative framework centered in nervous system awareness, emotional attunement, and attachment repair to bring healing to past hurt that limits present relationships and agency to future choices. My approach honors spirituality as lived experience rather than doctrine, and meaning as something discovered and pursued through story, embodiment, and choice. We work with what brings safety, clarity, and movement toward healing — and release what no longer does.
My Credentials
My clinical formation brings together narrative, attachment-based, and embodied approaches to healing, with training that supports both depth and practical change.
Training & Certifications
- Graduate degrees in Theology and Pastoral Counseling
- Narrative Focused Trauma Care
- Resilient Service (Seattle School of Theology & Psychology)
- Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy
- Essential Emotions Coach (embodied, neurobiological emotional processing)
- Nonviolent Communication + Enneagram for relational repair
My Approach Will Be a Good Fit for You if You:
- Want counseling that holds compassion and responsibility together
- Are open to exploring your story with curiosity, kindness, and courage
- Are curious about how past experiences shape present patterns and future possibilities
- Value space for complexity, integration, and growth without rigidity or quick-fix formulas
- Value understanding your unique self in ways that support real, lasting change through intentional choices over time
WHOLE STORY LIVING: the THEORY behind STORY WORk
My Approach
Whole Story Counseling uses a narrative processing approach that encourages you to become your own storyteller in pursuit of wholeness.
That wholeness is characterized by the intersection of our past, present, and future story.
We seek to join you as you begin to uncover and reconnect the whole story of who you are: where you have come from, where you are now, and where you are going.
Whole Story Living
To assist our story journey, we apply the principles of Whole Story Living. This is my theory of story work. These principles are the intersection of theology and psychology, of theory and practice, and of past and future because they guide intentional choices lived out in real time in the real world.
Whole Story Living is:
Pursuing the Whole-istic Desire for Goodness and Connection.
Check out the Blog Page for the Whole Story Living Series to learn more about these principles.
One Step at a Time
We don't want to just talk about Story Work - we want to do Story Work!
Let's learn to live a life pursuing the whole story of who we were created to be. We heal to bring healing to the world.
DISCOVER YOUR STORY OF HEALING
PURSUING THE PAST: CURIOSITY FOR WHERE WE'VE COME FROM
We are a complex system of stories
that have formed desires, beliefs, and patterns of behavior.
We learned these stories very young and very well.
Understanding these overlapping stories and how they self-protect against new ways of being and behavior is the key to understanding ourselves and finding space to imagine new stories, new responses to old stories, and counteract the stress and anxiety of the internal identity struggle within our hearts, minds, and body.
We are freed to pursue our true desires for goodness and connection.
PURSUING THE PRESENT: KINDNESS FOR WHERE WE ARE NOW
You have made it this far.
You are both wounded and resilient.
We honor those less healthy ways of functioning for how they protected you in the past AND release them to create space for new responses to today's reality with healthier ways of living.
You begin to imagine new choices for your future because your desires are being set free from harm in the present moment.
You are pursuing wholeness by reconnecting exiled pieces of yourself
and finding that your desire for goodness and connection is growing.
PURSUING THE FUTURE: COURAGE FOR WHERE WE ARE GOING
The good news is that new ways are possible.
Change is possible.
With practice, the brain forms new pathways,
the body learns new patterns, and together,
they support new ways of responding to the stresses of life.
Courage will inspire you to take these new ways into your
future relationships, work, and your own continuing story.
Goodness and connection are becoming friends and allies on our journey to the future, freed from the marring of the past.