Jennifer graduated from ORU in 1990 with a Bachelors in Music Education and graduated in 1992 with a Master of Arts in Counseling. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. She has worked inpatient and with the Therapeutic foster care program at Shadow Mountain for over 6 years. After that she worked outpatient at Oklahoma Center for Therapy for 10 years with a focus on play therapy in Tulsa and Wagoner Country. She has also spent over 8 years with Daybreak in Coweta, Wagoner, and Tulsa county schools providing school and home based services. Jennifer has worked throughout Northeastern Oklahoma since 1993. Her professional focus is Play Therapy, working with children, teens, adults, and families with an emphasis on Trauma, Autism Spectrum issues, Sensory Processing, Conduct and Attachment issues and kids that are on IEP’s. She maintains a select group of supervisees that are working on LPC or RPT certifications. She presents at schools and community functions providing training for various schools or professional groups. She utilizes an eclectic counseling technique and draws from many disciplines to best help her clients meet their goals. She uses expressive therapeutic mediums: incorporating music, art, sand tray, puppets, and kinetic play and well as Cognitive/Behavioral therapy techniques. She was a Therapeutic foster parent for about 15 years and draws from her experiences as such to help her clients and families. She acknowledges how much hard work and support is needed to help effect long-term change. She works to maintain a creative, warm, and safe therapeutic environment for her clients to explore their own personal needs and to facilitate change through a supportive therapy process. Her husband, Dave, is from Britain and they have been married five years. Together they have 6 kids and have first hand knowledge on how to make a blended family awesome.