Jennifer (Jen) Johnson, LCMHC is a mindfulness therapist and coach who helps individuals and organizations stay present and creative in the face of stress, grief, and change. She also offers workshops and speaking engagements on stress reduction, grief, and creative resilience.
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When life feels overwhelming, something in us longs for steadiness.
Stress accumulates.
Grief reshapes us.
Chronic illness changes the ground beneath our feet.
Creative energy fades under pressure.
Mindfulness is not an escape from these realities — it is a way to meet them with greater resilience.
For 35+ years, Jen has worked with individuals, leaders, and organizations who are navigating stress, grief, transition, and change. Together, we cultivate presence, resilience, and a deeper capacity to live and lead with intention.
Whether you’re navigating personal or collective change or loss, longing to reconnect with your inner voice, or simply seeking a more soulful way of being, you’re invited to slow down and return to what matters.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
mindfulness, meditation
stress, anxiety
grief, loss
trauma
illness
gifted adults
climate grief / ecological grief
SERVICES:
MINDFULNESS THERAPY
Stress, anxiety, and overwhelm
Grief counseling
(including ecological grief)
Illness
Trauma and life transitions
Gifted adults
Therapy integrates evidence based practices from mindfulness, neuroscience, narrative therapy, writing therapy, journal therapy, nature therapy, CBT, and ACT
MINDFULNESS COACHING
For those who are not seeking therapy but want guidance in:
Stress management and resilience
Deepening a mindfulness practice
Developing a regular mindfulness practice
Integrating mindfulness into everyday life
Navigating personal or professional transitions
CREATIVITY COACHING
For those who are not seeking therapy but want guidance in:
Reconnecting with creativity
Developing a regular creativity practice
Coaching is forward-focused, growth-oriented, and grounded in presence.
SPEAKING
Mindfulness for Stress Reduction & Resilience
Mindful Journaling for Resilience
Tending the Beauty of What Remains
Weathering the Storms
Climate Psychology for Therapists
Writing with the Earth
MEDITATION CLASSES online
The Mindful Way through Grief
Writing as Meditation / Writing as Refuge™
Ecological Grief: Practice & Presence with the Living World
Practices taught may include guided mindfulness, reflective writing, and attunement to nature as a source of grounding and insight.
WRITING AS REFUGE™ WORKSHOP
Writing as Refuge™ is a mindful writing and writing as meditation practice — a sanctuary for reflection, clarity, and creative renewal. Through guided prompts and contemplative structure, participants discover writing not as performance, but as presence.
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The Stories We Live By
Life can be extraordinarily difficult — and astonishingly beautiful.
Stress and grief do not only come from what happens to us, but from the meanings 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.
As depth psychologist Marion Woodman wrote:
“In finding our own story, we assemble all of the parts of ourselves.”
This work is not about bypassing pain.
It is about meeting it with presence — and allowing it to deepen, rather than diminish, your life.
In stillness, nature shows us how to hold both grief and beauty.
A Steady Presence in Changing Times
The world feels uncertain. Many of us carry both personal and collective grief.
Mindfulness does not remove difficulty. It strengthens our capacity to remain grounded, creative, and compassionate within it.
Whether you are seeking therapy, coaching, or a workshop for your organization, this work is about one thing:
Learning to stay present to your life — especially when it feels hard.
Even in motion you can find the still place within
Be here. This is enough.
Mindfulness is…
Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment with kindness. Jen Johnson, mindfulness therapist and coach, teaches people how develop a regular mindfulness practice and integrate it into everyday life.
Jennifer Johnson, LCMHC
1:1 coaching worldwide by Zoom
Online therapy in
North Carolina
Raleigh, Wilmington, Durham, Chapel Hill, Asheville, Charlotte, NC
stress management and resilience webinars
Jennifer Johnson offers affirming, inclusive and welcoming services for all.