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Registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist #150089
Exp 9/30/2026

Jenny Ming Tu, AMFT

Childhood Trauma

Couples Therapy

Relationship Challenges

Supervised By: Chloe Licon, LMFT #134163

Client Focus: Couples, Postdoctoral and Medical Students, Asian-American Couples, Individuals with Trauma History

Specialties: Couples therapy, relationship challenges, childhood trauma, infidelity recovery, complex PTSD (C-PTSD), communication enhancement, attachment healing

Treatment Methods: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Brainspotting, Mindfulness-Based Interventions

Jenny Ming Tu is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who combines her own journey of transformation with extensive clinical training to support individuals and couples facing trauma and relationship challenges.

Jenny specializes in couples therapy, relational distress, and childhood trauma recovery. She helps clients develop insight into the emotional patterns that shape their relationships and sense of self, fostering awareness that leads to choice and change. Her work often involves supporting couples caught in conflict, individuals healing from trauma, and clients navigating the pressure and perfectionism common in medical or postdoctoral settings. She brings cultural attunement to her work with Asian-American couples, helping them build understanding and emotional closeness across generational and cultural differences.

Jenny integrates EMDR, IFS, EFT, Brainspotting, and mindfulness to help clients work directly with both trauma and the protective patterns that form around it. Grounded in nearly two decades of meditation practice, she guides clients in recognizing how pain arises and how the mind reacts to it- inviting compassion, curiosity, and the possibility of transforming shame into understanding.

With a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy 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 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 rural northern California, where she finds both grounding and inspiration at the pottery wheel. She swims in her backyard pond and hikes through nearby woods, carrying the same sense of connection and mindful presence into her work with clients. For Jenny, creativity, solitude, and immersion in nature are essential to emotional balance and living authentically.

  • Rooted in nearly two decades of meditation and mindfulness practice, Jenny's work blends lived insight with clinical skill-bringing both heart and evidence to the process of lasting change.

  • Driven by curiosity and a commitment to growth, she regularly consults with leading trauma and couples therapy practitioners to bring clients the most effective, research-backed approaches for real transformation.

  • Jenny's experience working with postdoctoral and medical students, as well as Asian-American couples, brings cultural sensitivity and insight into high-achievement pressures, academic stress, and multicultural relationship dynamics.

“I want to help my clients learn to tell the difference between pain itself and the ways they've tried to protect against it. When we can meet both with compassion, we rediscover the quiet strength that's always been ours.”

- Jenny Ming Tu