About Jenna

Hi, I’m Jenna!

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I’m a mother of two, a board-certified music therapist, certified child life specialist, and perinatal mental health professional. But before any of those titles, I am someone who has walked through the tender, messy, beautiful landscape of matrescence myself.

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I’ve lived with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) my whole adult life. I’ve experienced pregnancy loss, the complexity of welcoming a rainbow baby, birth trauma, and later the deep healing of a more supported delivery, along with multiple pregnancy-related surgical repairs postpartum. I’ve known baby blues and postpartum depression. I’ve felt joy so expansive it took my breath away — and I’ve felt the fog, the isolation, the identity shifts, and the pressure of balancing work and motherhood geographically far from family support.

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Music held me through it.

During pregnancy, labor, and postpartum, music became a steady place for my nervous system to land. It helped me regulate, connect, grieve, bond, and make meaning. It reminded me who I was when everything felt like it was changing.

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These experiences helped shape the way I care for others.

Professionally, I’ve spent years working in NICU, maternity, labor and delivery, pediatrics, and medical settings. I studied music therapy at Berklee College of Music and New York University, and I’m currently completing my Master’s in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University as I work toward licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist.

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I also studied Chinese medicine at the graduate level for three years, which deeply influenced the way I understand cycles, energy, nourishment, and the body as an interconnected system. I carry a strong respect for herbalism, nature-based healing, and integrative approaches that support whole-person wellbeing.

My work blends clinical training with creative and integrative modalities — music, mindfulness, expressive arts, nervous system regulation, and gentle ritual — to create a space where you can show up exactly as you are.

Motherhood has become one of the most defining parts of my identity. Having felt the full spectrum — grief, awe, overwhelm, meaning, numbness, devotion — I care deeply about offering the kind of warmth and holding I once needed.

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