Jenny Ming Tu is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who brings both profound personal transformation experience and extensive clinical training to her work with couples and individuals navigating complex relational and trauma challenges.

With specialized expertise in couples therapy, relationship distress, and childhood trauma recovery, she creates therapeutic spaces where clients can develop clarity around their underlying emotions and increased agency in how they show up in life and relationships. Jenny particularly enjoys working with couples experiencing relationship distress, individuals struggling with trauma, and has developed special expertise with postdoctoral and medical school students as well as Asian-American couples seeking help with communication and deeper connection.

Her therapeutic approach integrates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Brainspotting, and mindfulness practices. This comprehensive toolkit allows her to address both individual trauma healing and couples' attachment dynamics through evidence-based interventions. Jenny's methodology is grounded in nearly two decades of personal meditation and mindfulness practice, enabling her to help clients differentiate between pain triggered by external events and their reactions to that pain, while learning to transform shame from a barrier into a healing tool.

With a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Touro University and full training in EMDR, EFT, IFS, and Brainspotting, Jenny brings exceptional clinical preparation to her practice. Her commitment to clinical excellence extends beyond her formal education through ongoing practice groups and consultations with top thought-leaders and practitioners in couples' work and trauma treatment. This dedication to continuous learning reflects her passion for discovering new tools, questions, and techniques that lead to breakthrough moments for her clients.

Outside the therapy room, Jenny lives as an artist-ceramicist in a remote part of northern California, where she finds creative expression and grounding at the pottery wheel between sessions. She swims in her backyard pond and hikes through the woods surrounding her countryside home, embodying the connection with nature and mindful presence that informs her therapeutic work. This artistic and nature-connected lifestyle reflects her understanding of the importance of creative expression, solitude, and natural beauty in maintaining emotional well-being and authentic self-expression.

• Jenny's unique combination of nearly two decades of personal meditation and mindfulness practice with extensive clinical training provides clients with authentic, lived wisdom about transformation alongside evidence-based therapeutic expertise for lasting change.

• Her obsession with discovering breakthrough tools and techniques, combined with ongoing consultations with leading practitioners in couples' work and trauma, ensures clients receive cutting-edge interventions tailored to create genuine therapeutic breakthroughs.

• Jenny's specialized experience with postdoctoral and medical students as well as Asian-American couples brings cultural sensitivity and understanding of high-achievement pressures, academic stress, and multicultural relationship dynamics to her clinical work.