Therapy Services
Traditional Therapy & Retreat Therapy in Upstate, SC
Multiple therapy options to fit your season of life and maximize your healing.
Retreat Therapy Services
Retreat therapy offers a spacious nature based experience. These extended blocks of time provide the support to settle in, explore complex issues and make meaningful changes. By stepping away from the rush of everyday life you can focus entirely on your healing and practice new approaches to growth before returning to your routine with clarity and resilience. These services are available to individuals and couples 18 and over in a variety of time intervals to maximize your investment including two or three hour, half day or full day and weekend retreat options.​ Please click here for current retreat therapy options
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Traditional Therapy Services
Traditional therapy offers a structured approach to mental health by focusing on reducing symptoms and improving understanding. These services are available to individuals and couples 18 and up in a variety of time intervals to maximize your investment including one hour, brief, extended and focused therapy options. Please click here for current traditional therapy options.
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Therapeutic Methods & Specializations
Jennifer's practice combines evidence-based models to help individuals and couples effectively change. Whether you choose Traditional Therapy for a structured process or a Retreat Therapy option for a relaxing experience, we utilize these powerful methods in a nature based setting to support your healing.
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​Core Framework:
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IFS (Internal Family Systems): This peaceful approach helps you build internal safety that can travel with you outside the therapeutic setting. IFS builds connection between your restorative Self and your protective system. It is highly effective for trauma recovery (C-PTSD), resolving internal conflicts, and navigating life with chronic illness.
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IFIO (Intimacy From the Inside Out): This approach is an advanced application of IFS designed specifically for couples. IFIO utilizes the IFS framework to reorganize the way couples interact with themselves and each other.
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NVC (Nonviolent Communication): NVC is an awareness based approach for relating to yourself and others through observations, feelings, needs, and requests. We use NVC to help you repair relationships and heal from past wounds.​
Sessions are available in-person in Greenville, SC and virtually across South Carolina.
Professional IFS Training & Clinical Supervision
IFS & NVC Training for Therapists & Coaches
IFS and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) are adaptable methods for therapists, coaches, other healing professionals and leaders. Jennifer offers supportive, experience-based training for professionals interested in integrating these practices into their existing approach. She shares honestly about applying her knowledge with success and failure alike, and finds great joy in collaborative learning and sharing.
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Clinical Supervision & Consultation for Therapists​
One of Jennifer’s ongoing goals in her IFS journey is to become a consultant for those learning and practicing the art of the model. She came to IFS after many years of using other modalities, which has allowed her to recognize the intersections IFS makes with other therapeutic approaches. For those encountering IFS as their first modality, she considers it a gift—because it may be the only modality you’ll ever need. The model offers immense room for creativity and growth, and Jennifer continues to find joy in practicing and exploring in what she calls “the therapist sandbox.”
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Faith Leadership Training & Coaching
Faith & Spiritual Integration in Therapy
“It is common to humanity to utilize faith in God to survive and evolve.”
This remains true today, making it reasonable to expect that emotional and psychological recovery will intersect with a person’s spiritual beliefs. Healing can be much richer when individuals are supported in integrating their beliefs into the healing process. This is different from sharing the same beliefs as the counselor; it is more skillful for the counselor to support the natural flow between the client’s psychological system and their spiritual experiences.
Jennifer has been cultivating these faith integration skills for the past 10 years through her work as the director of a faith-driven mental health nonprofit organization. Aligned with the mission of that organization, she recognized the need to clearly and skillfully honor both the psychological and spiritual processes of human experience with integrity.
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A Personalized, Client-Led Approach​
Consider a person who enters therapy by sharing how their faith supports them in navigating emotional and psychological experiences. Jennifer carefully takes notice of this existing relationship and remains mindful of how it may emerge in their therapeutic work. Throughout the process, Jennifer supports the client using the IFS model, allowing their psychological and spiritual experiences to become clearer. Jennifer names the psychological process, while the client interprets the spiritual experience through their own beliefs. As a result, the client is often able to further develop their spiritual beliefs by differentiating them from the psychological process.
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Respect for Diversity in Belief Systems​
Even within mainstream religions, there are many different approaches to how individuals apply their beliefs personally. Spiritually integrated psychotherapy is intended to support a clearer and more fluid relationship between psychological processes and spirituality, allowing for a diverse and personalized expression of faith within the healing journey.
Different from many faith-based therapy models, spiritually integrated psychotherapy does not aim to teach, share, or change a client’s spiritual beliefs. Instead, it creates space between the psychological process and spiritual experience, allowing the client’s own framework to guide the integration.
It is entirely up to the client how much they want to incorporate or discuss their spirituality and how it relates to their mental health. A person’s relationship with their faith and faith community is always present in the work they are doing. Feeling free to acknowledge and connect and include that aspect of their life is the most effective way to support their therapeutic work.
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Experience with Christian Spirituality​
Jennifer has extensive experience integrating Christian spirituality with psychotherapy. She frequently works with clients who have been spiritually wounded by their religious participation and is open to working with individuals anywhere along the faith continuum.
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Consulting & Collaboration with Faith Leaders​
Jennifer partners with pastors, educators, and spiritual leaders to develop curricula, improve emotional growth, and facilitate evidence based relational practices within their communities. Her learned and intuitive understanding of systemic humanistic processes allows her to offer faith leaders practical tools they can weave into their own style of leadership. These collaborations are grounded in shared passion for safe, connected and growing communities.
Who This Faith-Integrated Approach Is For​
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Individuals seeking to incorporate faith into their healing in a natural and supportive way: Anyone who regularly relies on their faith or spiritual practices to cope with life’s challenges can benefit from integrating those practices with new therapeutic skills. The connection between the mind and one’s spiritual nature is so close it can’t be measured. It is neither necessary nor beneficial to separate these aspects of the human experience.
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Individuals who value spirituality as part of their identity, but do not want it to be the sole focus of therapy: Each person is uniquely organized internally and best understands how their spirituality and psychological processes work together. That’s why this approach must remain client-centered and client-chosen so the work stays authentic, sustainable, and life-giving.
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Church leaders or faith-based communities seeking psychological insight to support their members: Leaders who are willing to explore their own inner and spiritual worlds are often the most supportive to their communities. There is great value when a psychologically informed leader leads. Moreover, faith communities grow strongest when they grow together through shared stories, listening, and creativity. Jennifer welcomes opportunities to help plan or participate in community events that support emotional and psychological well-being.
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FAQs About Therapy Services in Greenville, SC
Do you accept insurance?
Yes, for medically necessary services. Clients must meet the criteria for a mental health diagnosis to bill insurance. Jennifer is in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, and United. She is not able to bill Medicare or medicaid plans. When possible she may submit electronic claims to out-of-network companies. Jennifer is responsible for informing clients with a good faith estimate- cost for services in advance and notification of any change to cost based on insurance payments. Clients are responsible for understanding and managing their insurance coverage and resolving insurance claim issues, including denials. Clients are responsible for the cost of the services received, even if insurance does not agree to pay.
What’s the difference between a therapy session and an intensive therapy session?
Traditional therapy is typically 1-hour in length. Intensives are longer sessions that may incorporate outdoor settings and nature-based activities. Many clients find they can experience deeper change more comfortably with an intensive format.
Why are intensives effective?
They interrupt the routine mindset and flow of life to help us remember our nature and rhythms that restore our energy and motivation. Retreats offer comfort and space around therapeutic work, making healing more accessible and sustainable.
How do I know if IFS is right for me?
There is something for everyone to use from IFS perspective. Attend a workshop, and/or a flourish group, to get a sense of how it works.
Why are flourish groups offered?
Deep healing involves some skills that many people have been taught. Flourish groups not only build skills used in deeper work, but they also support and promote well-being. Clients who learn and practice mental health regularly notice significant progress sooner and consistently throughout their intensive healing work.
Jennifer welcomes people from all races, ethnicities, ancestry, gender expressions, national origins, financial situations, abilities, sizes, religions, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
