Based in Rochester, NY. Consulting families in person and via video worldwide.
What Working With Dr. Jodi Looks Like
Working with Dr. Jodi is not about quick fixes or surface-level relief. It is about restoring the conditions that allow people, families, and systems to function with steadiness, connection, and direction—especially during times of stress, transition, or complexity.
People seek Dr. Jodi when something essential is no longer working. Communication may feel strained or circular. Relationships may feel fragile, overburdened, or disconnected. Decision-making may feel reactive instead of intentional. Often, clients are highly capable and conscientious, yet internally managing anxiety, over-responsibility, or fragmentation. Dr. Jodi helps clarify what patterns are driving these experiences and guides precise, sustainable shifts at the level where real change occurs.
Her work is grounded in nearly three decades of trauma-informed clinical practice and systems-based thinking. Rather than focusing only on symptoms or individual behavior, she works with the full context: emotional dynamics, relational patterns, roles, history, nervous system responses, and the pressures of modern life. This allows individuals and families to move out of survival strategies and into greater coherence—where stability and flexibility coexist.
Clients often report feeling understood quickly, without having to over-explain or defend their experience. Dr. Jodi is skilled at identifying what is being held together through effort alone, where energy is being drained, and what conditions need to be restored so growth can happen naturally. Her guidance is direct, compassionate, and practical—supporting clarity and forward movement without overwhelm.
This work is especially impactful for couples and families. When the emotional and decision-making core becomes steadier, everything downstream improves. Children develop stronger emotional regulation and responsibility. Adult children can be mentored with clarity and respect. Family culture becomes more intentional, and relationships with work, wealth, and community grow more aligned. Over time, families gain the capacity to navigate change without fracture and to steward their influence with care.
Completing the Welcome Form is the first step. It allows Dr. Jodi to understand your context, assess fit, and determine the most supportive way to work together—whether through individual consulting, couples or family work, or system-level advising.
Creating Embodied Leaders Who Build Impactful Legacies
Services that meet your specific needs.
Families are complex systems with varied needs that change quickly due to shifting internal and external contexts. You need someone on your side with experience in quickly understanding what those are before they drown you, and the skills to guide you to higher ground.
- Individual coaching
- Leadership coaching
- Family meeting facilitation
- Couples counseling
- Managing organizational change
- Child/teen mental health consulting
- Counselor/social worker supervision
- Reunification coaching after no contact
- Executive functioning skills for Generation Z
- Adult ADHD Management
- Abuse/sexual abuse trauma recovery
- Anxiety (social, health, general, and specific)
- Dating/relationship navigation
- Navigating narcissism and attachment behaviors
- Stress management and changing behaviors/habits
- Divorce/Conscious uncoupling
- Assisting children with divorce
- Affair recovery
- Spiritual direction
- Balancing work and family
- Grief & loss
- Team retreat facilitation
- Family mission negotiation

Dr. Jodi is a Family Relationship Advisor
Specializing in Emotional Stability, Connectedness, and Sustainable Change.
With nearly three decades of experience as a trauma-informed psychotherapist, she guides individuals, couples, families, and family-owned organizations to understand what is no longer working, restore cohesion, and correct course.
Rather than focusing merely on symptom relief, Dr. Jodi works at the level of patterns and systems. From this vantage point, clients navigate out of survival mode, over-functioning, and fragmentation, and into lives and relationships that feel steadier, more coherent, and intentionally aligned.
Drawing on extensive clinical training, ethical foundations, and skills refined during 28 years of practice, Dr. Jodi offers grounded, precise guidance that helps families stabilize, repair, and grow forward with clarity.
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“I take groups of executives and entrepreneurs to places such as Bali, India, Guatemala, and Egypt. Booking Jodi to support my tour in Egypt made a huge difference in the group’s cohesion without me having to worry about it. While I focused on logistics and facilitating group programming, Jodi integrated into the large group and created a safe, supportive presence, helping my participants regulate their nervous systems amid the challenges of traveling in Egypt. She recognized emotional triggers happening and intervened before they escalated. She offered gentle guidance to two recently divorced participants, helping them receive the most from the experience. I’ve been in several group settings with Jodi, and her presence brings a sense of calm, trust, and emotional safety. I hope she can join us again this year.”
~ Asha Ramakrishna
Founder of Sacred Commerce™
K.L.
Austin, TX
I just had my first appointment with Jodi and was absolutely impressed. Talking with her is very comfortable and easy. She was enlightening and thought-provoking. It was beyond my expectations. I left the appointment feeling empowered and motivated to do my homework. I’m looking forward to our next appointment.
C.F.
Rochester NY
Jodi always seems to know the problem and clearly explains it to me. I am very thankful to have a nonjudgmental and realistic coach. I don't feel bad, I feel organized and sorted out! If you want someone who will actually help you, hire Jodi!
S. W.
Cleveland, OH
Jodi can lift me out of those dark places I sometimes find myself in, practically and at my pace, but faster than I ever thought I could go. She has the knowledge and background to help me demystify my responses and my neurobiology. That brings relief and hope, and translates into the change that I have been hoping for.
S.H.
Irondequoit NY
I always look forward to my meetings with Jodi because I learn something new. She is kind, informative, and effective. If you think your problems are too complex to have someone understand you, they are not: see Jodi!
J.W. & K.W.
Cape May NJ
We chose Jodi based on her books and videos and have nothing but positive things to say. She gets us as individuals and as a couple, as no one else has, and she explains us to us in a way that has been eye-opening. Jodi is also a “cheerleader” for our relationship, reminding us what works and how to sustain it. She's invaluable.
G.V.
New York, NY
I have been consulting Jodi for years. She has helped me deal with smaller, urgent issues, then we remapped my life plan and upgraded all of my relationships. I will never go to anyone else. Seriously, she is the best out there!
A.L.
Los Angeles, CA
I was concerned I wouldn’t get the “full” experience with my consulting session being over video. My concerns were unfounded. It was amazing and well worth it. I've been consulting people for a long time, and nothing compares to this. She “got it” immediately and explained the root of the problem. She knows where your mind goes and where it needs healing! I truly believe she’s one of the best out there.