Dr. Jennifer Slingerland Ryan, LPC

12/03/2025

It's gifting season and I have the PERFECT gifts for you and the people you love! 😍

📘 Crafting a New Narrative: A Simple CBT Visual Guide to Personal Transformation

This book teaches you how to rewrite the personal narrative so you have a more fulfilled life. Through simple visuals and CBT-based tools, you’ll learn how your thoughts shape your emotions and behaviors—and how to change the “objects” in your mind so you can finally feel grounded, confident, and in control. A reset for your brain and a roadmap to your Secure Self.

📘 I Am Magic: Master Your Wild, Anxious Thoughts With a Vision Journal

A playful yet powerful guided journey that tames your anxious thoughts and turns them into intention, clarity, and emotional freedom. Through visioning, reflection, and narrative reframing, this journal helps you shift from overwhelm to empowerment, one page at a time. Perfect for daily grounding, self-love rituals, and emotional breakthroughs.

Find both of these in Amazon!

12/02/2025

I don't understand all the hate for Mel Robbins and her "Let Them" theory. Yes, we therapists have been using it for forever with our clients. But I don't hate her for being able to push the message out to a massive amount of people. It isn't a toxic message in the slightest, and thinking it is, is reading too much into the idea.

LET be a conduit for healing. I'm all for that! Thanks, Mel. 😍

12/01/2025

Most people misunderstand attachment.
They think “anxious” or “avoidant” is a label. Something that you "are." And that's 100% incorrect.

Saying "they are avoidant" is not true.
Calling yourself "anxiously attachment" is labeling.

Attachment isn’t *identity,* it’s a behavioral coping pattern your nervous system learned through your earliest relationships.

^^read that part again^^^

Patterns can change. People can heal. Stories can be rewritten.

If you want to explore your attachment history and your internal working model, this is exactly what we do in an intensive.
Link in bio.

11/30/2025

You’ve tried surface-level self-care.
But your soul is asking for something deeper.

Real self-care isn’t pampering.
It’s remembering who you are.

The Self Love Tools open the door back to the Self — the part of you that’s been waiting to be seen, held, and loved.

If you’re ready to reconnect with your inner world, I teach this work every day.

Follow for more.
Book an intensive at the link in my bio.

11/26/2025

When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, everything feels personal.

A raised eyebrow suddenly feels like rejection.
A question feels like criticism.
A simple comment turns into World War III.

This isn't a “communication problem.”
This is a *nervous system problem.*
Internal conflict becomes a relational problem.

When your body is dysregulated, your relationships absorb the impact — especially the ones closest to you.

And THAT is exactly why individual and couples intensives work so well.

A typical 50-minute session barely scratches the surface -- But an Individual or Couples Intensive gives you the time and space to:

✨ Slow your nervous system down
✨ Break the cycle of reactive communication
✨ Rebuild internal safety
✨ And reconnect on a deeper, more meaningful level

Think of an intensive like hitting “reset” on the emotional chaos.

You walk in overwhelmed…
and walk out with clarity, tools, and a regulated body that can finally connect again — to yourself or your partner.

If you're feeling tense, stuck, or disconnected, an intensive isn’t a luxury. It’s the exact kind of support your nervous system has been begging for.

Learn more: ichoosechange.com/intensives/
Contact us: 214-547-1318 | info@ichoosechange.com

11/21/2025

An intensive with me is a deep-dive healing experience designed to create the kind of insight, relief, and momentum that can take months to uncover in weekly sessions. It’s focused, private, and intentionally crafted so you can finally understand what’s been happening beneath the surface—and begin to shift it.

For Black Friday, I’m opening a limited number of spots and offering up to $400 off the total cost.

If you’ve been thinking about doing this work, this is the moment.

Learn more here:
ichoosechange.com/intensivecouplescounseling
ichoosechange.com/individual-intensive

Ask Questions + Schedule:
214-547-1318 | info@ichoosechange.com

11/21/2025

Conflict in your own body is what's creating conflict in general. You have conflict, which is to say, pain and suffering, because of your unmet emotional needs .

Your unmet emotional needs are tied to the story that you're creating about yourself, others, and the world around you.

If you change your story, you change your emotions. If you change your environment, you change your story, you change your emotions. If you Change the story you have about yourself in relation to all other people in the world, you change your emotions .

If you change your emotions, you change your behavior, and your outcome is different.

All conflict is because of unmet emotional needs. It's a completely powerless move to assign blame to other people and situations because of the way you feel on the inside.

11/19/2025

Ever wish your brain had a “quiet mode” button?
Same. 🙋‍♀️ Overthinking is exhausting, and sometimes the usual weekly therapy pace just isn’t enough to break the cycle.

That’s where a 4-hour Individual Intensive comes in — deep, focused, and designed to help you reset in hours instead of months.

And for Black Friday?
Take $100 OFF when you schedule your intensive by Black Friday.
(Your session can happen in 2026 — future you will thank you.)

If you’re overwhelmed, stuck in analysis-paralysis, or craving a mental clean slate… an Intensive gives you room to breathe, process, and actually move forward.

Your mind deserves peace.
Let’s go get it.

Learn more: www.ichoosechange.com/individual-intensive/
Contact us to schedule (or scheduline online!)-
214-547-1318 | info@ichoosechange.com | www.ichoosechange.com

10/25/2025

The very first reading of the Roots of Belonging is happening on Wednesday, October 29th, 2025.

Roots of Belonging helps you discover why you feel lonely, how your earliest relationships shaped you, and what true emotional connection really means.

The brilliant Cindy Childress, Ph.D., hosts the Author Debut Literary Salon at Brazo’s Bookstore in Houston, TX. We’ll kick things off with a reception at 6:00 p.m. (think wine, non-alcoholic sips, and tasty bites), and the readings begin at 6:30 p.m. sharp.

If you’re in Houston, Texas—or ready for a road trip—I’d be thrilled to see you in person. For everyone else, stay tuned for the official launch date and other details! My book is in its second edit right now, and I'm on the hunt for a literary agent and/or a publishing house to help me push this project forward. Just as I teach all my clients, I'm trusting the process.

A book reading event hosted by Cindy Childress, Ph.D, showcasing seven authors.

10/14/2025

Serious question for my travellers....
Where have you gotten really GOOD food that set the tone for the region or city you were visiting?