Her history of service runs deep. In her 20’s, she acted as Campus Director for Greenpeace, at Glendale College, increasing awareness around environmental sustainability. The usage and purchase of Kimberly Clark paper products was successfully halted as a result of her initiatives, which included a grassroots campaign to cease funding towards companies which supported the clear cutting of virgin forests. She has volunteered for Barrio Action, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, and the Downtown Women’s Shelter.

For the last 14 years, she has actively served on the Council at Shambhala Meditation Center of Los Angeles in several capacities, including Head of Communications, Membership Director, Head of Care and Conduct, and Director of Societal Health and Wellbeing. She continues to develop and lead classes and workshops for the Shambhala community.

In 2020, Jenny completed a training in Embodied Social Justice led by Rev. Angel Kyudo Williams, Dr. Sará King, and Stacey Haines, which wove trauma sensitivity, Mindfulness, and Social Justice. The work of awakening to racism in its subtle and gross expressions continues to be an important path of study and development.

Jenny has made pilgrimages to Nepal and Bhutan, retracing the steps of Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal. This “power couple” from the 8th century practiced and taught the deep wisdom of emotions. In 2023, she endeavored in a year long intensive study program of Tibetan Medicine with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang.

Jenny’s Filipina-American heritage is a source of deep joy and appreciation, as her DNA joins East and West. She was raised in a family with heavy doses of unconventionality and attended public schools in Los Angeles. Her seven siblings sparked inspiration for her creative investigation into the human psyche, particularly group psychology and its unconscious effects on the system and the individual.

In her family, Jiu-Jitsu, theater, and the arts were haphazardly discovered in her household as healing outlets for the deaths of her parents. Through an understanding of loss and deep suffering, a path of wholeness became a rich and fertile question of how to integrate the experience of mind, body, and spirit.

Today, she explores her art practice through painting, ceramics, and movement, while also maintaining meditation, yoga, Pilates, and kickboxing rituals.

Therapy Modalities: 

• Strong Relational approaches

• Trauma Sensitive 

• Art Therapy

• Depth Psychology

• Somatic based practices (integrating the mind-body-spirit through self massage techniques)

• Family Systems

• Buddhist Psychology - Particularly the usage of the Five Buddha Families. Here, we increase emotional awareness and curiosity through an investigation of shadow (the unconscious/rejected aspects of ourselves). This approach often increases feelings of aliveness, compassion, and empathy towards self and others. It ultimately leads to liberating defenses and stuck patterning, and a more full and honest experience of yourself.

• Sand Tray Therapy (in person only)

• Music Therapy

• Movement Therapy (in person only)

• Narrative Therapy

Areas of Focus:

• Life transitions

• Grief and Loss, Death

• Attachment Trauma (based in culturally sensitive Attachment Theory)

• Anxiety and Depression

• Artistic Struggles + Issues with Creative Integration

• Relationship struggles

• Sex drive + Libido

• People of Color + Mixed Race

• Children and Adults of Divorced or Separated parents + Children whose parents share custody of their child

• Couples Therapy

• Survivors of Abusive Groups

• Sexual Violence, Coercive Control, and Abuse

• Fertility struggles and IVF stress

• Adult Children who are Caring for Aging Parents

Contact Jenny here to be on the waitlist