BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Johnson is a writer, photographer, counselor, and life coach. She is licensed as Professional Counselor in North Carolina and Georgia. Jennifer provides counseling and coaching services in her Asheville office for local clients or by telephone for distance clients. Jennifer offers creative writing instruction and writing coaching locally and to distance learners online. Her photographs are available for sale and licensing, and she is available for commissioned work for CD covers, book covers, etc.
Jennifer obtained an MS in Community Counseling in 1991 and an MS in Rehabilitation Counseling in 1996 from Georgia State University. She obtained an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art with concentrations in Creative Writing, Photography, and Art as Healing from Goddard College in 2007.
Jennifer's theoretical orientation and practice draws upon Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy, Narrative Therapy, Therapeutic Writing, and PhotoTherapy. She offers mindfulness training including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Therapeutic Writing and Photography (PhotoTherapy).
Jennifer has pursued a personal practice of Vipassana meditation and mindfulness since 1990 and a practice of Vinyassa yoga since 2003. .
Publications
Feature: "The Value of a Vacation." New Life Journal. June 2009."The Wreck," "After The Wreck," and "Plastic Surgery Phase II" poems transposed onto photographs. The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary and Visual Arts. October 2008, Volume 8.
Feature: "The Healing Power of Writing From Life" New Life Journal. July 2008.
A Sister's Call. Writing published in conjunction with photography exhibit by Rebecca Schaper. Emory University Law Library, Atlanta, GA. 2006.
Acquired Brain Injury Vocational Rehabilitation Manual. Shepherd Center, Atlanta, GA. 1998.
An Overview of Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. University of Florida/ Intellicus Life Care Plan Training Program. Module 3- Multiple Disabilities section, pp. 55-70. 1997.
Vocational Rehabilitation with Persons With Acquired Brain Injury. Shepherd Center Acquired Brain Injury Program Family Training Manual. 1996.
Child Abuse Prevention and Survivor's Helpline Training Manual. Georgia Council on Child Abuse. 1994.
Photographs have been published on CD covers and in magazines including Spinal Column, Peachtree, and New Mobility.
Photography Solo Exhibits
Untitled Permanent Exhibit. Portraits of Brain Injury Survivors. Side By Side Clubhouse, Decatur, GA
Photography Group Exhibits
That's Me! Scenes From Black Asheville Before Urban Renewal. YMI Cultural Center, Asheville, NC. September 2007-April 2009.
Crossing Over: Looking from There to Here, Looking from Here to There. The Annexe Galleries, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. November 2007.
Goddard College MFA Exhibit. Plainfield, VT. February 2007.
The Whimsical Dreams of August. Interdisciplinary Art Collaboration with Dianne Hodack, Siouxsie Grady, and Margaret DeLima. Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY. March 2006.
Photographer's Choice. Atlanta Photography Group Gallery, Atlanta, GA. March 2003.
ten. Women in Focus. The Seen Gallery, Decatur, GA. October 2003.
Photography Collections
YMI Cultural Center
Shepherd Pain Clinic
Atlanta Outpatient Surgery Center
Georgia State University
