Hi! I’m Jen. I’m so glad you’re here.
I’m a licensed clinical psychotherapist, couple counsellor and energetic healer who uses an integrated, and personalised process for helping individuals and couples heal from attachment adaptations and childhood trauma to foster more secure attachment internally and with those you love. I’m the author of Heal Your Anxious Attachment and the host of the Psychotherapy Central Podcast, where we explore love, attachment and healing trauma.
No Bad Parts is the name of Richard Schwartz’s book on Internal Family Systems (IFS). In it he describes the foundation of his modality and how it works. All parts need and deserve love, compassion and understanding. They are all …
If you resonate with this pattern of outside-in referencing, let me know in the comments. It is one of the indications of anxious attachment. love Jen x P.s. If you feel anxious in relationships, I have a book coming out …
Reminder: it is NORMAL to have conflict in a relationship. Excellent relationship researchers, the Gottman’s, discovered that it was not the number of disputes that determined if a relationship was robust or not, but how the couple resolved the conflict.Notice …
Over the years, I have collected a few – these are the stand-outs. Notice that there is a lot of Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing. His books contain deep insight into the nature of trauma and how to …
I’ll be apart from my husband for 29 days in November. I’m taking a retreat to India, and he will visit family in the USA. We have one day to connect between flights in the middle of November. I had …
As a therapist, I know about the importance of corrective experiences. They help create a different template of how we are treated and what that feels like. Staying with corrective experiences and leaning into them is a big part of …
A redo sounds like: “That came out way too harsh. Can I say it again in a kinder voice?” This teaches your child a few things:
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” | Jack Kornfield
When you pursue yourself, different doors open to you. New possibilities emerge because your model of yourself, others and the world starts to change.
Ego states theory says that we have many parts of ourselves with different desires and agendas. When we grow up in relative safety, the various parts of ourselves have thinner walls around them that allow the different parts to communicate. …
Self-awareness is about getting to know yourself in an open, non-judgemental way. Most of us fall down right here. We might be self-aware, but we are incredibly judgemental in the process. The trick with self-awareness is to enter any self-examination …
In this insightful episode of Psychotherapy Central, host Jennifer Nurick dives deep into the often misunderstood phenomenon of dissociation. This episode is particularly useful for professionals in the mental health field, individuals experiencing dissociation, and anyone interested in psychological phenomena. …
To increase self-acceptance, we need to cultivate more self-compassion. Self-compassion is an attitude of kindness toward ourselves. It takes into account the circumstances and history involved in any situation. Self-compassion does not make excuses; it acknowledges that in any given …
