Dr. Jenny Sneeden
Jenny specializes in navigating relationships during the perinatal period and building a fulfilling sexual connection, which often go hand in hand. Relationships are an intricate dance of personalities, histories, responsibilities, and desires, not to mention broader cultural influences and the decision to have children, conception, pregnancy, and the postpartum period can highlight and intensify these similarities and differences. Jenny helps people to explore what is most important to them and how those values can guide their life choices and be integrated with those of their partner. With couples and individuals, she pays close attention to the mind-body interaction as difficult emotional experiences from the past and present often subtly manifest in how we hold, move and feel in our bodies.
Parenthood can bring uniquely challenging experiences that might alienate partners from one another when they most need to feel intimate. Jenny helps couples adjust and adapt to this dynamic chapter of their life, honoring and integrating important parts of their identities before and after becoming parents. Couples walk away from sessions feeling hopeful, having learned about facets of themselves and their partner that help them navigate the waters of parenthood. With Jenny, couples build a strong family bond, fortifying the family system as it grows and changes over the years.
Jenny emanates a warm and calming energy that puts people at ease. She seeks to create a therapy space that emphasizes collaboration, authenticity, and curiosity, where people feel safe to wonder about themselves and in turn can work to understand, know and connect with one another. It is in such a space that she believes people can make meaningful progress toward the deepest kind of healing.
- I live by the philosophy that
- we all have the power and agency to be the author of our own story.
- I could spend every day
- finding a new adventure in the great outdoors with my family.
- As a therapist, I
- approach my work with humility and an understanding of the courage that it takes to shine a light on the past in an effort to move forward.
Credentials
- Psy.D., Clinical Psychology; Widener University (APA-Accredited)
- M.A., Clinical Psychology, Widener University
- B.A., St. Lawrence University
Affiliations
- American Psychological Association
- Philadelphia Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology
- Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
