Dr. Jennifer Slingerland Ryan, LPC

Dr. Jennifer Slingerland Ryan, LPC Teaching the science of love and roots of belonging. 🛋️ Counseling Intensives
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Two new Counselor Interns offering 6 FREE Counseling Sessions. Call, email, or text our office to make an appointment.
02/03/2026

Two new Counselor Interns offering 6 FREE Counseling Sessions. Call, email, or text our office to make an appointment.

02/02/2026

A message from our president.

01/28/2026

Attachment styles are not a personality, a diagnosis, or a character trait. They should not be used as a label. Instead, we should see attachment as adaptive coping strategies which means people engage in patterns of behavior to help keep them safe in times emotional distress or perceived lack of safety.

In this way, we can begin to see people as operating from a place of pain and trauma rather than assuming they're just an a-hole.

Why is this important? Because you harboring anger towards other people keeps your body in distress. When realize people are operating from a place of pain and trauma, it frees you up to have compassion and empathy which is the exact energy your trying to put out into the world (and your body will thank you).

01/27/2026

Where are my allergy experts? They have some explaining to do.

01/06/2026

How Dax Shepard and Nikki Glaser prompted me to get more intentional on my walks. 🥰

I’ve been craving more depth lately, with less reacting and more reflecting.I wrote this piece after revisiting a docume...
01/02/2026

I’ve been craving more depth lately, with less reacting and more reflecting.

I wrote this piece after revisiting a documentary I watched years ago with my kids, and it stirred something I keep seeing in my work with people.

It’s about belonging, safety, and why separation matters more than we think.

Sharing it here in case it speaks to you too.

https://docjenryan.substack.com/p/something-hurts-and-its-everywhere?r=43700l

12/30/2025

Sometimes what we call depression is actually loneliness wearing a clinical mask.

If you’ve done “all the right things”—therapy, medication, mindset work, self-care—and still feel heavy or empty, it may be that you’re emotionally disconnected.

Humans aren’t wired to heal in isolation. We regulate, repair, and make meaning within our relationships.

Loneliness isn't about needing more people though.
It’s about needing safer, more attuned connection.

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About Dr. Ryan

I’m Jennifer Slingerland Ryan, and I know a thing or two about kids and families. First, I know they are joyous, exhilarating, loving and so darn fun. Second, I know they suck your life dry and make you weep like a baby. By day I’m a counselor and business owner; by night I’m a mom and wife. I love therapizing couples, educating parents, reading dystopian fiction and sleeping in my free time (read: I never sleep).

I created a health care model that focuses on the basic components of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. It’s super easy, super trustworthy, and ready for you to start using today. (Sign up for my newsletter to get my FREE download to get an easy one-pager with the Eight Acts of Self-Love, all based on the NEW Mental Health Care Model.)

I’ve has spent over 16 years in private practice working with individuals, couples, and parents who are faced with kid-drama, mamma-drama, and family-drama, and although some stories make a grown woman cry, I love it.

We spend most of our time in relationships – with friends, children, life partners, and coworkers – and you may not realize it, but many issues arise out of those pesky, er, lovely people we call family. You have symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADD, anger and fear you say? Yep, those come from relationships, too. I will show you how. Marriage is my thing (but it wasn’t always – my husband taught me a lot about myself how to even be in a marriage. I’m happy to share that story if you want).