About Dr. White-Baughan
Dr. White-Baughan Ph.D. is a seasoned psychologist with 29 years of experience in mostly private practice working with children and adults in a myriad of areas focusing on trauma such as child abuse, molestation, rape, assault, victims of crime, and domestic violence and war related response. She has taught psychology at the graduate level and about Post Traumatic Stress to international and domestic populations; in Sri Lanka after the tsunami and in West Africa post civil war. Jennifers’ knowledge of trauma and recovery is a lifetime of work and her own trauma history and recovery.
She has done work with high conflict divorce and parenting issues related to divorce. She did her post graduate work at UC San Diego, at the Medical School.
Dr. White-Baughan has been described by her clients as warm, creating trust and a safe place; she is a wise clinician who knows how to take her clients through healing from trauma with many tools and a deep level of discernment, commitment and expertise. She is described as intuitive and spiritually deep.
Dr. White-Baughan has two grown children; her daughter lives in Mill Valley, California and her son is in Sacramento. She loves dogs and gardens and all things sentient.
My Philosophy
I love what I do as a psychologist and trauma specialist. Trauma clients and all humans want to feel safe and understood in the presence of great vulnerability; they want to be listened to and heard and they seek the tenderness and forgiveness of their own selves in the process of healing. My clients want to know they are lovable. I practice from the space of vulnerability as strength and resilience as the potential outcome for our suffering. I ground my work in empathy and equip myself with as many tools and as much new information and deep reflection as I can. I am seasoned and efficient in my practice.
When we avoid or deny our vulnerabilities we do so at our own peril for this impacts our health and all of the relationships in our lives. Living can be understood in terms of perceived loss or it can be a lesson in the power of surrender to “what is.” Reality acceptance can generate gratitude and enhance our grace of living. I have been to many places of war and cataclysms in my career (see my C.V.) and I have witnessed profound human challenge but it is in the witnessing of extraordinary resilience that I have formed my world view. Clients are in charge of their treatment outcomes and the therapeutic process is a collaborative relationship where I am the guide for their exploration and the person who works with them to make their goals both conscious, functional, and realized.
I believe we are embedded in the context of our ecological world just as we are within our families. There is wisdom for us from all sentient life, which includes plants and our relationships to the animals and each other while here. How we relate to the all of nature is a reflection, a microcosm of how we relate to ourselves and how we learn to value all of life on this planet.
