Jennifer A. Herman, FNTP, FSS, MCPD, MLBD, PMH-C

Jennifer A. Herman is a Functional Health Practitioner and the proprietor of Pine Laurel Wellness, based out of the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania. She specializes in nutritional therapy, mental health, and quality supplementation for children, adults, and perinatal populations experiencing trouble with stress, anxiety and trauma. She is a certified  Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Functional Supplement Specialist, Perinatal Mental Health Doula, Sylvotherapist and Brainspotting Practitioner. 

She graduated from the Nutritional Therapy Association in Seattle, Washington as a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She was trained in Brainspotting under Rev. Martha S. Jacobi, Ph.D., LCSW, Brainspotting for children under Salene Souza, Clinical Psychotherapist, and Brainspotting for perinatal populations under Jana Glass, LPC, MAC, PMH-C, BC-TMH. In addition, she is trained in Memory Reconsolidation by Julian (Jules) Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP. She is a certified Birthing, Postpartum, and Loss, and Bereavement Doula from Madriella Doula Network and is certified in Perinatal Mental Health from Postpartum Support International. 

She uses Memory Reconsolidation, Brainspotting, lifestyle, and nutritional therapies to help clients overcome unresolved issues that may lead to undesirable behaviors, disordered eating, chronic and/or unexplained pain, stress, anxiety, anger, depression, trauma wounds, unbearable grief and more. 

Due to her own experience with a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, she is passionate about women's mental and physical health postpartum and has created programs for women who have experienced pregnancy trauma, fertility difficulties, perinatal loss and/or traumatic births. She is a support group facilitator with Postpartum Support International for groups focusing on early pregnancy loss, and is a regional (NEPA) and specialized support coordinator with PSI for perinatal loss and traumatic birth. She is also a Member at Large on the PSI board of directors for Pennsylvania. 

She enjoys road trips, connection, research, yoga, meditation, live music, exploring, camping, farming and husbandry on her 50 acres of mountain forest land. She believes in realistic lifestyles, approachable and attainable goals, healing from within, and enjoying oneself alongside the journey to feeling great. Last but not least, she thrives on helping others achieve their vision of wellness and health.