My name is Jannae Rice, and I am a licensed mental health counselor associate, certified nutritionist, licensed body worker and practitioner of integrative mental health. My integrative approach explores how our whole body impacts mental health. Whether working with you or your child each treatment plan is specific to your unique needs. Together we take time to explore how different areas of your life contribute to your struggles. |
Mental health is not just about figuring out and treating symptoms. It's not just about learning to think or respond to situations in new ways, making dietary changes, or taking medication if needed. It's about becoming more connected to ourselves and our process of healing and change. As we come to know ourselves more deeply we shift how we interact with ourselves, our family and friends.
Everyone one of us is born with the capacity to live feeling free to be 100% ourselves, confidently express our needs, create healthy boundaries, and flexibility to grow when needed.
There are so many factors in our less than perfect world that diminish this capacity. Whether challenging relationships, parenting struggles, losing a sense of yourself, behaviors issues with children, or digestive issues ware you down, we begin to feel limited. Holding ourselves back, knowing and expressing what we need, we feel disconnected from ourselves and others. Some times our withdrawal becomes so overwhelming depression or anxiety nestles its way in. Sometimes we find ourselves responding to people we care about in ways that don’t feel like “ourselves.”
I know how frustrating it is to feel disconnected to yourself, your partner or child, to not feel good in your body... and together we can change it.
I know what it feels like to be stuck in repeating patterns. To feel held back from sharing myself with the world. To secretly struggle and not know how to change. It took me not giving up on myself when hitting what felt like rock bottom to realize that learning to think about things differently or taking medication was not enough to feel like I could be the friend, partner that I knew I could. It took not giving up, to see that the physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual aspects of myself needed healing to feel as though I could live life fully.
A little about my journey back home to myself...
During my struggles between my tweens to late teens, cycling through patterns of stomach aches, muscle tension, self doubt, withdrawal, feeling disconnected from myself and those around me, I could not have been further from my own center. I discovered that traditional approaches to treat my digestive issues, mood swings, anxiety, and depression, alone were not working. Knowing that many factors played a role in my internal world, I knew I would need treatments encompassing therapies that worked with my whole unique self.
Something inside kept telling me that everything I experienced was somehow connected, that my current treatments were managing symptoms, and for healing to occur every part being impacted would need to be addressed. For me it took community along with an integrative approach tailored to my unique needs including changes in types of foods and eating habits for my digestive issues, meditation, nature, movement, narrative and art therapy, and medications for a time for healing to begin.
Something inside kept telling me that everything I experienced was somehow connected, that my current treatments were managing symptoms, and for healing to occur every part being impacted would need to be addressed. For me it took community along with an integrative approach tailored to my unique needs including changes in types of foods and eating habits for my digestive issues, meditation, nature, movement, narrative and art therapy, and medications for a time for healing to begin.
One of the biggest pieces of wisdom I harvested through my own healing is each of us need therapies, guidance and support tailored to our unique nature to move into our pain and through our suffering.
My personal journey toward health began when I was young and continued with my passion for farming, somatic therapies, and my studies at Bastyr in their dual masters program in holistic nutrition and clinical health psychology. At the core of my passion is a desire to understand the interconnectedness, how our gut health impacts our brain health, how birth is a part of what sets the stage for our nervous system, that healing a family helps the individual, how belonging to a community that nurtures your unique gifts and loves you for just existing builds a foundation of resiliency that we can always lean into. Both my education and inner wisdom guide my collaborative treatment process, that health occurs in many layers within an individual and many layers between their family and the world they live in.
My Credentials...
Masters Degree in Nutrition and Clinical Health Psychology from Bastyr University.
Bachelors in Nutrition and Dietetics from Bastyr University.
Therapeutic Bodywork Certificate from Massachusetts Bay Community College
Three year apprenticeship with Sundust Oracle Institute in Energy Healing.
Certificate in Healing Arts and Energetic Medicine from North Shore Community College.
Interned at Monarch Children’s Justice and Advocacy Center, serving children and families.
Bachelors in Nutrition and Dietetics from Bastyr University.
Therapeutic Bodywork Certificate from Massachusetts Bay Community College
Three year apprenticeship with Sundust Oracle Institute in Energy Healing.
Certificate in Healing Arts and Energetic Medicine from North Shore Community College.
Interned at Monarch Children’s Justice and Advocacy Center, serving children and families.
I am a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor Associate (LMHCA), Certified Nutritionist (CN), and Licensed Massage Practitioner (LMP) with the State of Washington. I abide by the American Counseling Association (ACA), Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (ADA) and the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professional (ABMP) Code of Ethics.
I have experience in working with children, adolescents, adults, families, couples and groups. I have experience in both residential and outpatient settings, transforming disordered relationships with food, body image/self esteem, anxiety disorders, depression, relationship concerns, trauma, sexual abuse, food as medicine in cardiovascular dis-ease, mental and emotional health, balancing blood sugar, and food allergies.
I have experience in working with children, adolescents, adults, families, couples and groups. I have experience in both residential and outpatient settings, transforming disordered relationships with food, body image/self esteem, anxiety disorders, depression, relationship concerns, trauma, sexual abuse, food as medicine in cardiovascular dis-ease, mental and emotional health, balancing blood sugar, and food allergies.