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Meet Dr. Jennifer Harris
BIO
Dr. Jennifer Harris is a trauma-informed pastoral counselor with extensive experience in church leadership, theology, and teaching. She holds graduate degrees in theology and pastoral counseling, which form her unique approach to story work at the intersection of theology and psychology (see more below about theory and methodology).
Additionally, Jennifer has several certifications in trauma-informed narrative care (story work), resilient leadership and service, communication, and embodied emotional healing techniques.
She has been certified in Narrative Focused Trauma Care through the Allender Center at the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and has completed the Certificate in Resilient Service program at the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Jennifer is also a certified Essential Emotions coach, which uses the olfactory process to release deeply rooted stories and memories through neurochemistry through guided methodology, emotional awareness, embodiment, and essential oils. Lastly, she is an Enneagram teacher and trained in Non-Violent Communication techniques.
A personal note: I have lived life on this planet and have thus experienced my own themes of trauma through family dysfunction, spiritual crisis and abuse, and the challenges of being in a body on this planet. I am walking the path of story work, and I am honored to walk alongside you on that path, too. I'll be your flashlight, your story sherpa, and your mirror through the dark places on your journey back to the peace found in the light of grace.
Our theory of story work: WHOLE STORY LIVING
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.