Jen has a Masters in Consciousness and Transformational Studies College of Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. For over 20 years, she has worked in the nonprofit sector in both the program and development arenas. Her work experience includes organizations serving youth and adults at high-risk for HIV/AIDS, single parent families, at-risk and homeless youth. She has provided mental health services, art education, and mentoring programming.Currently, she works in the area of rites of passage, intense grief and loss, and initiation.

Past and current projects include board and staff workshops for nonprofits helping to re-craft their organizations’s mission and vision, assess their resources & build capacity, and reinvent their organization, roles, and responsibilities to better serve their clients. Jen has experience training volunteers, providing safety education to youth, and facilitating diverse community groups toward common purposes.

Jen has studied Image Psychology at The Eidetic Institute since 2005, and continue to utilize this experiential process with her clients. In 2015, she completed Reiki II training, became a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist through the Grief Institute.

Jen is the mother to five children who have been my greatest teachers. She is an artist and writer, and enjoys long, meditative hikes in beautiful places.She has been the owner of her own company, NewBloomz, since 2004, and currently work with clients who are in the midst of deep loss, grief, change, or transition.

I am so grateful that we all said yes in October 2017, and birthed this beautiful organization, The Greater Mercy Foundation. Our friendships and partnerships continue to unfold in ways that I never could have imagined. Through The Greater Mercy Foundation, I have found a place to share healing practices with some of the beings I love the most. I cannot wait to see what else we get to do together.