Jen Johnson, LCMHC
Jen Johnson, LCMHC
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor • Author • Mindfulness Coach • Wellness Coach • Mindfulness and Writing Workshops & Retreats
Jen Johnson teaches mindfulness, reflective writing, and therapeutic writing for self-discovery, transformation, and renewal.
She is the author of a forthcoming book on mindful writing for self-discovery, transformation, and renewal.
She guides individuals to cultivate awareness, resilience, creativity, and meaningful change through mindfulness coaching, wellness coaching, therapeutic writing coaching and workshops, and counseling. She supports organizations and communities through mindfulness-based workshops, training, and speaking.
Drawing on 40+ years of practicing and teaching mindfulness for awareness and stress reduction, Jen brings decades of experience as a mindfulness teacher and therapeutic writing coach to her work. She teaches mindfulness through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine. Jen is also a photographer, and she makes images of the ghost trees in southeastern NC. You can see some of Jen’s photographs here.
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.
SERVICES
COACHING
Mindfulness coaching
Wellness coaching
Reflective writing coaching
COUNSELING
Mindfulness counseling
CBT
Clinical EFT Tapping
Journal Therapy
WORKSHOPS
Writing as Refugeâ„¢
Mindfulness workshops
SPEAKING AND TRAINING
Stress reduction
Reflective writing
Climate mental health
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Stress
Anxiety
Life transitions
Grief
Creativity
Climate mental health
Writing as Refugeâ„¢
Writing as Refuge™ is a therapeutic writing practice Jen’s broader mindfulness and creative practice. Through writing, mindfulness, and connection with nature, this practice helps people make meaning from their experiences, reconnect with life’s beauty and wonder, and transform their story into a healing narrative that supports the life they imagine.
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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:
Mindfulness Coaching with Jen Johnson
Jen Johnson is a mindfulness coach and counselor serving individuals and organizations worldwide through one-on-one coaching, counseling, speaking, and mindfulness training. She helps people develop a regular mindfulness practice and writing practice to reduce stress, build resilience, improve health and wellbeing, 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.
Jen is the creator of Writing as Refugeâ„¢, a mindful writing practice for self-discovery, transformation, and renewal. This practice is for people who enjoy writing and journaling but are looking for a practice that goes deeper. Sessions available worldwide by Zoom
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
- What Happens in a Mindfulness Coaching Session?
- 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 DoesÂ
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.