The Food-Mood Connection
Our struggles with anxiety, depression, and brain fog often respond loudly to diet. When food is off, we get triggered more easily and we rage or fall into hopelessness more easily. Fortunately, when food is on point, and that's sometimes a very specific thing (see Evidence in Action below) the inner work is easier too.
Under my guidance, I will help you assess your intake, slowly make changes and evaluate those changes. What often stalls in therapy can change here radically and often first.
Calm The System
Removing inflammatory foods helps settle both body and mind. When the body feels safe, emotions follow.
Rebuild Resilience
Stable energy and mood come from real food: protein, healthy fats, unprocessed carbs that your body recognizes..
Integrate With Inner Work
As nourishment stabilizes, inner work becomes clearer and deeper. Food and feelings begin to speak the same language.
Internal Family Systems is a powerful modality where you get to know, love and heal yourself. I'm eternally grateful that I get to guide my clients through this process.
Jen Patterson
I am a Level 3 Internal Family Systems Practitioner, a former scientist with a doctorate in biology, a deep love of the natural world, a co-parent of a fabulous teen, and a pet-parent of two dogs, four cats and a lovely handful of noisy chickens.
I'm not a physician, dietitian, or licensed therapist. I don't diagnose, treat or prescribe. What I offer is education and coaching: a strong nutritional foundation combined with Internal Family Systems work, so you can access your own clarity and self-healing.
Scientific Background
My science background helps me make sense of data and scientific papers. I can run down rabbit holes for you when needed! But do remember, medical decisions are still yours and your doctor's.
IFS Level 3 Practitioner
Internal Family Systems helps you navigate subconscious drives, uncover compassion for what motivates your negative patterns and bring to the light the joy and potential that's buried inside you.
Client Experiences
These stories reflect the inner healing that grows even stronger when paired with nourishing food foundations.
Jen Patterson is amazing. She is both highly technically skilled in IFS and highly intuitive. That combination is so powerful in session. She helps me get right to the root of different blocks and challenges. Even extremely complex ones. She's able to hold all my different parts in her mind/heart, all at once, even when I lose track of them.
I've had a lot of chronic health issues, and she's helped me access and clear the emotional aspects of them. I'd been yearning for freedom from some of this stuff for years, and Jen/IFS has been a major player in me being able to regain the parts of myself (including my health) that I'd lost.
When I started therapy, I told Jen "I want to stop being attracted to crazy women." Through our weekly sessions over the past year, I was able to heal and understand myself better. This therapy played a significant role in my healing journey, and now I'm in a healthy relationship.
Insightful, encouraging, supportive, caring and kind. Jen Patterson is an amazing individual and an excellent IFS practitioner. She creates a safe, validating and empowering space to meet your subconscious parts and begin the rewarding journey of self-healing.
Meeting parts from a place of true self (unblended) allows me to experience self-love and acceptance. This is the first time I have ever felt confident in caring for myself emotionally and that, no matter the situation, I am going to be just fine.
Working with Jen through Internal Family Systems therapy has been a transformative experience for me. The sessions helped me uncover and heal parts of myself that I didn't even realize were affecting my daily life. I now feel much more equipped to handle everything in my life, including my relationships, my health, and my work, thanks to Jen.