Jen Johnson, LCMHC
Mindfulness Coach Jen Johnson
Jen Johnson, LCMHC
Mindfulness Coach | Counselor | Author
Mindfulness & Writing for Transformation
Jen helps individuals cultivate awareness, resilience, creativity, and meaningful change through mindfulness coaching, counseling, and reflective writing practices. She supports organizations and communities through mindfulness-based workshops, training, and speaking.
Drawing on 40+ years of practicing and teaching mindfulness, Jen brings decades of experience as a mindfulness teacher and meditation instructor to her work. She teaches mindfulness through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine.
Jen helps people live more deeply–with greater awareness, creativity, and presence–whether you’re navigating stress, anxiety, grief, or life’s uncertainties or simply longing for a more intentional and meaningful life. She helps people meet life’s challenges with greater ease and embrace its beauty more fully.
Mindfulness Coaching with Jen Johnson
Jen Johnson is a mindfulness coach serving individuals and organizations worldwide through one-on-one coaching, speaking, and mindfulness training. She helps people develop a regular mindfulness practice to reduce stress, build resilience, and live with greater awareness and intention.
Drawing on 40+ years of teaching and practicing mindfulness, Jen integrates neuroscience, mindfulness, and creative practice to support healing, resilience, and renewal.
Many of Jen’s clients are interested in meeting life’s challenges more skillfully while learning to embrace life’s joy and beauty more fully. Something meaningful almost always emerges from difficulty. The work is learning to meet it with kindness and curiosity and to follow the slender threads of synchronicity that lead us toward deeper understanding.
Writing as Refuge™ is a contemplative framework within Jen’s broader mindfulness and creative practice. This contemplative practiceuses writing, mindfulness, and deep connection with nature to help you make meaning from your experiences, return to yourself, and reconnect with life’s beauty and wonder.
Writing as Refuge™
Writing as Refuge™ is a contemplative framework within Jen’s broader mindfulness and creative practice. Through writing, mindfulness, and connection with nature, this practice helps people make meaning from their experiences, return to themselves, and reconnect with life’s beauty and wonder.
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The Stories We Live By
Life can be extraordinarily difficult — and astonishingly beautiful.
Stress and grief don’t only come from what happens to us, but from the meaning we make of those experiences. Through mindfulness and reflective writing, we begin to examine the stories we carry — and gently reshape them in ways that support healing, creativity, and resilience.
This work is not about bypassing pain. It is about meeting it with presence — and allowing it to deepen, rather than diminish, your life.
Jen Johnson is a featured expert on mindfulness:
Coaching
Mindfulness Coach
Develop a regular mindfulness practice to reduce stress, increase awareness, process grief, support health and wellness, and cultivate inner peace, happiness, and resilience in daily life.
“Practicing mindfulness has changed my life… I feel genuinely happy and at peace.”
— Former client
Sessions available worldwide by Zoom
Counseling
Counseling for stress, anxiety, loss, grief, health, illness, and life transitions for clients in North Carolina.
Workshops
Online mindfulness and mindful writing, and mindful journaling workshops designed to support awareness, creativity, and resilience for individuals and organizations.
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Speaking and Training
Mindfulness-based speaking and mindfulness training for organizations, conferences, and teams supporting stress reduction, resilience, and well-being in times of change. Topics include workplace stress, emotional resilience, and climate-related uncertainty.
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“Jen is extremely knowledgeable and empathetic. We often refer clients to her for her expert guidance, and she is also one of our favorite guest speakers.”
— Laura Bransfield, MPH, RD, LDN
Owner, Summerfield Custom Wellness
What is a Mindfulness Coach?
A mindfulness coach helps you develop a regular mindfulness practice and integrate it into everyday life — reducing stress, building resilience, improving health, and creating space for a more intentional and meaningful life.
Jen Johnson is a mindfulness coach serving individuals and organizations worldwide through coaching, speaking, and workshops.
Jen offers online individual counseling for adults in North Carolina.
Latest Blog Posts
- How to Journal: A Complete Guide to Journal Writing
- Writing Prompts: Deeper Questions for Self-Discovery and Transformation
- What is a Muse? And How to Find Her
- What a Mindfulness Coach Actually Does
- How to Do a Body Scan Meditation (Even When Your Mind Won’t Stop Racing)
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is awareness of present moment without clinging, without turning away and trying to escape what feels uncomfortable, and without wanting it to be other than it is. It is a practice of acknowledging things as they are in the moment and meeting whatever arises with kindness and curiosity.
Practicing mindfulness allows us to be present with whatever arises in our lives, both the joys and the difficult moments, without being so reactive. When we bring awareness to whatever is happening right now, we have the freedom to choose how to respond rather than falling into habitual patterns of reactivity.
Our health—and indeed our entire lives—can be seen as the sum of all our moment-to-moment decisions. –Kelly A. Turner
Whether you’re new to mindfulness or an experienced practitioner, I will teach you how to develop a regular practice and integrate integrate into your everyday life.
In stillness, nature shows us how to hold both grief and beauty.
Jennifer Johnson offers affirming, inclusive and welcoming services for all.