Jennifer Kind

Jennifer Kind is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon with over 11 years of experience supporting adults and couples.

She believes people have the capacity to create wholeheartedness, yet old patterns of thought and behavior can become stuck and leave clients feeling frustrated, ashamed, hopeless, and overwhelmed by difficult emotions. Therapy can be a useful tool for identifying and gradually shifting those patterns.

Her approach to change begins with awareness, which can lead to subtle shifts in reactions and the formation of new habits of thinking and behavior. To support that process she draws on an eclectic mix of methods including mindfulness, The Daring WayTM (the work of Brené Brown), cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, relational therapy, attachment theory, nonviolent communication, and Hakomi.

Her counseling style is relaxed and collaborative, grounded in empathy, curiosity, and a sense of humor. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where her training emphasized a blend of Eastern and Western psychological perspectives and an integrated view of the four waves of psychology: psychoanalytic, behavioral, humanistic, and transpersonal. She is also a Certified Daring WayTM Facilitator and uses that framework as a foundation for her work.

Jennifer helps clients cultivate greater self-compassion, build resilience to shame, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and increase their sense of agency. She also enjoys digging into psychology topics and sharing a few laughs with clients who appreciate a curious, down-to-earth style.