Jennifer Finch

Jennifer Finch

SE™ Advanced Certificates: Chronic Pain & Syndromes and Ventilator Trauma, Post-ICU, and Trauma Relating to COVID.

Hello,
I am Jennifer. I have worked in the mental health field since 2001 and as the commercial tagline suggests: I know a thing or two, because I have seen a thing or two. Even though I treat each client through the lens of a "beginner's mind," my experience in the field has helped along the way. I have worked in Emergency Rooms, Hospital ICUs, Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities, Jails, Court Ordered Treatment, and several Academic Universities. In 2014 I opened my private practice, Be Here Now Mindfulness, LLC where I have intersected my training and understanding of trauma and meditation.

In addition to my private practice, I train healthcare professionals on the frontlines of care, in prevention of the deleterious effects of burnout and fatigue. I work collaboratively with Emory University's Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion Based Ethics, and am a certified instructor of CBCT® Compassion & Resiliency Training. Compassion meditation is a revolutionary method using analytical meditation to help benefit others without burning out.

I am an avid Bowen's System Theorist, and see individuals within the framework of their complex environments, often delivered to them without welcome. I also draw from the knee-deep research and training I have done in breath work and polyvagal theory to bring a full-bodied approach to helping individuals regulate their nervous systems.

Working with trauma is often like solving a puzzle. We just keep twirling the pieces around until they fit and then AHH! we can relax, look back, and see the whole picture resulting in an integrated self.

In 1993, I was stuck out at sea on a tiny sailboat for two days during the Storm of the Century. I have been on the frontlines of Hurricane Katrina organizing infrastructures with the Red Cross to assist displaced individuals and families. I have sat across from many fractured minds, and from death and dying.

Each situation, each individual, requires an intuitive nature of working with the complex framework. Inside. Outside. And in-between. This is my speciality. What is required now?

SE® modalities help free your self from the story, which we all know can be so persistent. We can deal with any difficulty when we work with the body in the present moment.

When things fall apart, let's start where you are.
There is no time to lose.

Areas of Interest: • Betrayal Trauma • Near Death Experience • Grief/Loss • Natural Disasters • Medical Trauma • Breast Cancer

Specialties

• Adults
• Complex PTSD
• Developmental Trauma
• First Responders
• Grief and Loss
• Medical Procedure Trauma
• Motor Vehicle Collisions
• Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse
• Intergeneration Trauma
• Systemic Trauma
• Mass Disaster
• Sexual Abuse
• Womens’ Issues