I pronounce my name “Jenna Per-too-set” and use she/her pronouns.

I have been an advisor and advocate for families for over 20 years. Whether as an attorney, parent coach, or therapist, my focus has always been on personal, familial, and community relationships.

My approach to therapy is likewise relational, seeing people and problems as influenced by their contexts — interpersonal, cultural, and systemic. As a Narrative Therapist, I am most interested in your intentions and agency. I stand with you against problems, alongside the people and the values that matter to you most.

I am led by profound curiosity. Therapeutic conversations with me tend to be contemplative and playful, taking very little for granted.

I came to therapy by way of parent coaching, helping parents with their and their children’s anger, frustration, and aggression. My work with parents is richly informed by lived experience raising and fiercely loving a brilliant, delightful, and at times intensely challenging now young adult child who is queer, trans, and neurodivergent.

The values I hold as a parent influenced the way I think about legal systems. I left the practice of law because what is often called “good lawyering” is frequently at odds with what I regard as good humaning. Colonized practices and principles of punishment and individualizing both problems and solutions dominate the field of law. And like therapy, Anglo American law places too much emphasis on modifying people’s behavior and too little on the power of connection and community to help people thrive.

My move toward coaching and then therapy was and remains an expression of my valuing creativity over conformity, collaboration over expertise, and collective care over self-reliance.