Life is an ongoing cycle of ruptures and repairs.
Our ability to repair these ruptures is the greatest gift we can give to one another.
About Dr. Jenna and Associates
Dr. Jenna's Bio
Coparentwell Online Coparenting Course
Meet the staff therapists
Dr. Jenna Flowers is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Author, and Speaker.
Meet the staff therapists
Coparentwell Online Coparenting Course
Meet the staff therapists
Dr. Flowers works with fellow marriage and family therapists to offer child, family, couples, and individual therapy in a private practice setting in Newport Beach, California. All licensed therapists are trained to work with parenting, depression & anxiety, relationship issues, failure to launch.
Coparentwell Online Coparenting Course
Coparentwell Online Coparenting Course
Coparentwell Online Coparenting Course
A foundational 3-hour course on coparenting plus 11 bonus videos, checklists, surveys, and more!
How Dr. Jenna works as a Therapist
More on Dr. Jenna
She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan. She graduated with her MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and Doctoral Degree in Psychology from the professional psychology school American Behavioral Studies Institute. Upon completing her Marriage and Family Therapy licensing board examinations in 2006, she has been in private practice in Newport Beach, California. Her book The Conscious Parent's Guide to Coparenting is published by Simon and Schuster and can be found on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for purchase.
Past clinical experience and trainings include acting as Clinical Director at Mainspring Family Wellness Center, teaching as an adjunct faculty member at Azusa Pacific University the Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Studies Program, Clinical Director of Aspire Recovery Outpatient treatment center, school counselor for Huntington Beach Unified School District, Staff therapist at the Center For Individual and Family Therapy. Dr. Flowers is currently completing and intensive trauma certification with Bessel van der Kolk. She has completed EMDR therapy training I and II through the EMDRIA Institute as well as studied Attachment Focused EMDR with Laurel Parnell. She is certified in Conversational Hypnosis. She has had the privilege of attending consultation groups with interpersonal neurobiology pioneer and author of "Parenting From the Inside Out" Daniel Siegel, MD., psychologist and co- author of The Whole Brain Child Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, couple’s counseling with therapist and author Kay Yerkovich, LCSW, reactive attachment training with Bryan Post, LCSW, intensive training with Cognitive Behavioral Psychiatrist David Burns, MD., and continues to train and consult with cutting edge clinicians. She is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Dr. Flowers also enjoys philanthropy and is a past president of National Charity League Pacific Coast Chapter. Dr. Flowers coparents and raises a blended family of four ages 22, 17, 15, and 11.
Practice Focus and Theoretical Orientation
As a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Dr. Jenna’s clientele has ranged from high profile celebrities and fortune 500 company executives desiring individual work to stay at home moms passionate about improving their parenting skills. "Over the span of 20 years, I have worked with hundreds of patients struggling with depression, anxiety, addiction with a specialty in compulsive eating, early childhood abuse, attachment issues, stress, and relationships issues spanning from divorce, affairs, disconnectedness, repairing parent child relationships, and parenting issues." Dr. Jenna helps clients in taking a deeper cut underneath the surface of issues to free themselves from the darker emotions like anger, anxiety, depression, and frustration using EMDR therapy. Dr. Jenna sees families, individuals, couples, and teens. She is also available for parenting consultation and case consultation. Dr. Flowers frequently gives talks on stress, parenting, womens' issues, and relationships.
PARENTING CONSULTATIONS & PARENTING CLASSES
When I offer parenting consultations at my private practice in Newport Beach, California, I work with the parent in helping them understand what they value as a family. I help parents hone in on what they want their legacy to be. For some a legacy might look like embracing a certain value like honesty or a strong work ethic. Regardless of what the value is, I will help you to simplify at home what matters most. The same goes for anything you want to work on in your parenting like discipline, spending more quality time as a family, co-parenting during separation and divorce, blending a family, sibling rivalry, parenting teens, preparing for family transitions, and the list goes on. I like to work with small doable goals that set the client up for success at home, and as your confidence increases, I help you to take on bigger challenges at home. I also add educational pieces to our work about attachment, child development information, helping you create a rhythm and routine at home that just the right fit for your family. Conscious Mothering is a class I have codeveloped with my dear and talented colleague Nola Casserly, MFT held in Orange County in the city of Newport Beach. The focus of these groups is to support parents in understanding how they grew up affects how they parent. Using the latest information on brain development and attachment theory as the basis of the curriculum, parents are lead in a supportive environment through a 10 week session. The class also covers discipline, repairing ruptures with your kids, attuning, and dealing with guilt as a parent. Email me to inquire if there is a current class available.
DR. JENNA'S PERSPECTIVE ON THERAPY
Life is an ongoing cycle of ruptures and repairs. Our ability to repair these ruptures is the greatest gift we can give to one another. My goal as a therapist is to help you get to a place within yourself where you feel seen and heard, and make sense of your life. You may feel stuck right now. If you have the desire to grow and want to experience connected relationships that thrive as well as living life from an authentic place, then let's talk!
Meet Our Therapists
Josh Soto, MFT
Diana Valenzuela, MFT
Diana Valenzuela, MFT
Josh is a very talented child therapist and meets kids where they are at and helps them work through depression, anxiety, ADHD, self-esteem, relational issues. Josh is also the President of The Orange County Association of Marriage & Family Therapists. To schedule with Josh please contact our offices at (949) 863-9031.
Diana Valenzuela, MFT
Diana Valenzuela, MFT
Diana Valenzuela, MFT
Diana has solid experience working with coparenting, parenting, families, individuals, couples and teens. She works with issues such as parenting, depression, anxiety, relationship, and grief and loss issues. To schedule with Diana please contact our offices at (949)863-9031.
mainspring family wellness podcast
Episode #1 The Arc of Mothering
Episode #3 Respect & Gratitude Part 1
Episode #2 Kid Centric Marriages
Cohosts Dr. Jenna Flowers and Kristen Perlmutter discuss how mothering has adapted through the generations.
Episode #2 Kid Centric Marriages
Episode #3 Respect & Gratitude Part 1
Episode #2 Kid Centric Marriages
Cohosts Dr. Jenna Flowers and Kristen Perlmutter explore how putting kids as the focal point of marriages is causing many marriages to take a back seat.
Episode #3 Respect & Gratitude Part 1
Episode #3 Respect & Gratitude Part 1
Episode #4 Respect & Gratitude Part 2
Respect and Gratitude start at home. In this world of entitlement, empathy is the antidote! Cohosts Dr. Jenna and Kristen Perlmutter offer tips on how to raise caring, respectful, and grateful children in our fast paced culture. The first episode dives more into respect while the second part offers tools for parents on the importance of teaching our children gratitude
Episode #4 Respect & Gratitude Part 2
Episode #5 When Pediatric Occupational Therapy is the referral
Episode #4 Respect & Gratitude Part 2
Part 2 of Respect and Gratitude. In this world of entitlement, empathy is the antidote! This episode offers tips on how to raise caring, respectful, and grateful children in our fast paced culture. The first episode dives more into respect while the second part offers tools for parents on the importance of teaching our children gratitude
Episode #5 When Pediatric Occupational Therapy is the referral
Episode #5 When Pediatric Occupational Therapy is the referral
Episode #5 When Pediatric Occupational Therapy is the referral
Dr. Jenna and Kristen interview Tara Mackenzie, a seasoned Pediatric Occupational Therapist practicing in Orange County. Tara will define Occupational Therapy, discuss what she sees in her practice, and the benefits of some children seeing a pediatric therapist.
Episode #6 Conscious Coparenting with Dr. Jenna Flowers
Episode #5 When Pediatric Occupational Therapy is the referral
Episode #5 When Pediatric Occupational Therapy is the referral
Author Dr. Jenna Flowers and her Coparent Erik Flowers discuss how conscious coparenting is a paradigm shift from how most people think about parenting after divorce. Both Erik and Dr. Jenna share their insights about how they work together with raising their three children in two separate homes. To buy Dr. Jenna's book The Conscious Parent's Guide to Coparenting click here: https://indi.com/p/hfr5x/8pbpigcgk73yr0wi
Mainspring Family Wellness Podcast
Episode #11 Entitlemania with Richard Watts Part 1
Episode # 12 Entitlemania with Richard Watts Part 2
Episode # 12 Entitlemania with Richard Watts Part 2
Are well intentioned parents inadvertently raising entitled children? How are we as parents contributing to the problem of entitlement which is becoming an epidemic in the United States. Author Richard Watts share his wisdom as a parent himself and advisor to the extremely affluent what he has observed as the challenges of wealth, and how to raise kids to respect their own capabilities and not expect their parents to do everything for them. You don't want to miss this. In fact we had so much to discuss we needed to make this podcast in two segments! Buy the book here:
Episode # 12 Entitlemania with Richard Watts Part 2
Episode # 12 Entitlemania with Richard Watts Part 2
Episode # 12 Entitlemania with Richard Watts Part 2
Part II: Are well intentioned parents inadvertently raising entitled children? How are we as parents contributing to the problem of entitlement which is becoming an epidemic in the United States. Author Richard Watts share his wisdom as a parent himself and advisor to the extremely affluent what he has observed as the challenges of wealth, and how to raise kids to respect their own capabilities and not expect their parents to do everything for them. You don't want to miss this. In fact we had so much to discuss we needed to make this podcast in two segments!
Episode #13
Episode # 12 Entitlemania with Richard Watts Part 2
Episode #14 How Summer Camp Helps to Raise Thriving Kids
Debbie Reber, Author and Founder of Tilt Parenting a community for parents with differently wired children shares her personal journey with son Asher, and how communities can be more inclusive of differently wired children. Debbie also speaks further about the Tilt Parenting Community which was a vision she had to help parents all over the world receive support and resources from fellow parents also raising children who are differently wired.
Episode #14 How Summer Camp Helps to Raise Thriving Kids
Episode 33 Discussing Spiritual Topics with your Children with Ines Franklin
Episode #14 How Summer Camp Helps to Raise Thriving Kids
Audrey Monke and Sarah Kuljis Camp Directors of Gold Arrow and Yosemite Sierra respectively share their insights and wisdom on what life skills children gain by going to summer camp. Both share personally how camp influenced their own upbringing and guided their choices as people and as parents.
Episode 33 Discussing Spiritual Topics with your Children with Ines Franklin
Episode 33 Discussing Spiritual Topics with your Children with Ines Franklin
Episode 33 Discussing Spiritual Topics with your Children with Ines Franklin
Kristen and Jenna broach the topic of spiritual wellness for your family through your values, personal faith, and service with Pastor Ines Franklin.
In The News
How to Handle if Your Husband Behaves Like a Toddler
Tips for Managing Back To School
Good Day LA segment on Toy Guns and their Impact on Kids
Good Day LA segment on Safeguarding Digital Dating for Teens
Good Day LA interviews Dr. Jenna on helping kids handle Back To School Stress
Good Day LA interviews Dr. Jenna on Kids and Quitting
The New Family Podcast with Brandie Wiekle Conscious Coparenting
Coparenting Children with Special Needs on Tilt parenting with Debbie Reber
Sunshine Parenting with Audio Monke
Through her psychotherapy practice and her own experience as a divorced mother of three children, Dr. Jenna Flowers knows the importance of prioritizing children’s well-being and practicing “conscious coparenting.” Her book, The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Coparenting: A Mindful Approach to Creating a Collaborative, Positive Parenting Plan
Videos and Speaking Engagement info
Watch Dr. Jenna's Videos
Dr. Jenna On How to use a Cost Benefit Analysis
Dr. Jenna using the Downward Arrow Technique
Speaking Engagements
I love to give presentations. If your organization would like to ask me to speak, please give me call or email me at: info@drjenna.com.
Here are a list of TV, organizations and churches I have spoken in the past:
- Good Day LA
- Sunshine Parenting Podcast
- Orange County Association of Marriage & Family Therapists
- San Bernardino Association of Marriage & Family Therapists
- YPO
- Mariners Church 2019 Spring Retreat Speaker
- Q Commons Mariner's Church, Irvine
- Orange County Bar Association, Santa Ana
- Pegasus School, Huntington Beach
- St. Margaret's School, San Juan Capistrano
- Mariners Christian School, Costa Mesa
- Rock Harbor Costa Mesa Nurture
- St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach
- Mariner's Church Divorce Care, Irvine
- YMCA Central Coast, Newport Beach,
- Christ Presbyterian Church, Mom's Morning, Huntington Beach
- Mariner's Church MOPS, Newport Beach
- Kindred Community Church, Anaheim
- Mercy House, Santa Ana
- Stone Creek Church, RSM
- Grace Fellowship Church, Costa Mesa
- The Crossing MOPS ,Costa Mesa
The Conscious Parent's Guide to Coparenting
About the book
A positive, mindful plan for children and parents in transition!
If you're facing the challenge of raising children in two homes, you may be feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how to build a healthy coparenting relationship. With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Coparenting, you'll learn how to take a relationship-centered approach to parenting, foster forgiveness, and find constructive ways to move on when relationships change. Coparenting means putting your child's needs first. And conscious parenting acknowledges a child's thoughts, feelings, and needs, as well as a parent's responsibility to them.
This easy-to-use handbook helps you to:
- Build a coparenting relationship based on mutual respect
- Lower stress levels for the entire family
- Communicate openly with children about divorce
- Discuss and reach parenting decisions together
- Protect children, meet their needs, and help them build resilience
- Educate your family and friends about coparentingThe concept of ending a marriage peacefully, with compassion and respect for former partners, is often viewed with surprise in modern society. But choosing to consciously coparent is an important choice you can make for yourself and your children--one that will benefit the emotional health of your family for years to come.