Mindfulness Coach Jen Johnson
Jen Johnson is a mindfulness coach and licensed counselor with more than 40 years of experience practicing and teaching mindfulness. She teaches mindfulness through UNC Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine and integrates meditation, neuroscience, positive neuroplasticity, wellness science, and behavior change into her work.
Jen offers mindfulness coaching for people seeking greater peace, resilience, self-awareness, and a deeper connection with themselves and nature.
Jen works with individuals who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected — and who want to reconnect with themselves, their creativity, and what matters most.
Reasons People Work with a Mindfulness Coach
- Your racing mind and heart keep you up at night
- You’ve lost touch with what matters most
- You just can’t seem to commit to a regular mindfulness practice
- You feel disconnected from your creativity or sense of purpose
- You struggle with perfectionism, self-criticism, or imposter syndrome
Why Work With Jen Johnson as Your Mindfulness Coach?
- 40+ years of teaching mindfulness practice — drawing from decades of personal experience with teaching and practicing meditation and mindful living.
- MBSR-trained mindfulness teacher — trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn through the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School.
- University mindfulness instructor — Jen teaches mindfulness through the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Program on Integrative Medicine.
- Licensed counselor and experienced educator — bringing a deep understanding of personal growth, awareness, and transformation.
- Trauma-informed mindfulness approach — creating a supportive and compassionate space for your practice.
- Personalized guidance — helping you develop a mindfulness practice that fits your life and goals.
- Experienced mindfulness teacher and counselor — Jen Johnson brings 40+ years of mindfulness practice and teaching experience, integrating mindfulness, meditation, counseling psychology, neuroscience, and behavior change.
- Featured mindfulness expert and author — Jen’s work has appeared in Psychology Today, PainPathways Magazine, and other publications.
Jen Johnson’s Training and Teaching Background
Jen Johnson’s mindfulness coaching is grounded in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness. She has practiced and taught mindfulness and meditation for more than 40 years and trained directly with Kabat-Zinn through the Center for Mindfulness.
Jen’s teaching is also informed by decades of study and practice in contemplative meditation traditions, including Insight Meditation and Tibetan Buddhist practices.
As an EcoDharma teacher, Jen also explores the relationship between mindfulness, compassion, and our connection with the natural world during a time of ecological change.
Mindfulness coaching essions draw on formal meditation practices — including sitting meditation, body scan, and open awareness meditation — alongside guidance in integrating mindfulness informally into everyday life. Coaching is offered 1:1 via Zoom, worldwide.
Whether you are brand new to mindfulness or have an existing practice you’d like to deepen, Jen meets you where you are.
What is Mindfulness Coaching?
Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment — paying attention to your experience on purpose, with kindness and without judgment.
Through mindfulness practice, you learn to relate differently to difficult thoughts and emotions without avoiding them or becoming overwhelmed by them. Over time this builds resilience, emotional balance, and a greater capacity to notice moments of joy, connection, and ease.
A mindfulness coach teaches and supports you in developing a regular mindfulness practice and integrating it into daily life so it becomes a practical, embodied skill — not just a concept. This supports greater clarity, steadiness, and self-trust in everyday living.
Working with a mindfulness coach who is also trained as a therapist is particularly valuable if you have experienced trauma. A trauma-informed approach ensures the practice supports rather than overwhelms you.
Whatever you rest your attention on grows.
Benefits of Mindfulness Coaching
A regular mindfulness practice has been shown to:
- Reduce stress, anxiety, and depression
- Increase peace, happiness, and emotional resilience
- Improve attention, concentration, and clarity
- Enhance creativity and self-expression
- Increase self-compassion and self-trust
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How Mindfulness Coaching Can Support You
Mindfulness coaching with Jen Johnson offers personalized support for developing greater awareness, resilience, creativity, and emotional balance. Together, you’ll explore mindfulness practices that support your unique goals and life circumstances.
Mindfulness for Stress Reduction and Resilience
Learn to calm your nervous system, work skillfully with difficult thoughts and emotions, and cultivate greater resilience and inner steadiness.
Mindfulness for Creativity
Mindfulness naturally awakens creativity. When we learn to quiet the inner critic and settle into present-moment awareness, we open space for inspiration, original thinking, and creative flow. Many clients find that mindfulness deepens their creative process. For those who want to explore this further, Jen also offers Creativity Coaching →
Mindfulness and Reflective Writing
Writing can be a profound mindfulness practice. Jen integrates reflective and therapeutic writing into her coaching work as a tool for self-inquiry, processing difficult experiences, and cultivating greater self-awareness. Explore therapeutic writing coaching → and Writing as Refuge™ workshops.
Mindfulness Coaching for Gifted Adults
Gifted adults often experience the world with an intensity that can make stress, overthinking, and emotional overwhelm especially challenging. Mindfulness coaching offers practical tools for working skillfully with a mind that never seems to stop. If this resonates with you, learn more about Jen’s work with gifted adults →
Whatever you rest your attention on grows.
Online Mindfulness Coach
Jen offers mindfulness coaching worldwide via Zoom, working with individuals navigating stress, anxiety, grief, creative blocks, life transitions, and the ongoing challenges of living in uncertain times.Mindfulness practice begins as something you do — and over time becomes a way of being. When your body is calm and your mind is steady, you naturally access greater clarity, creativity, and self-trust. You begin to make choices that align with your values rather than your fears.
Working with Jen, you will learn to cultivate an intentional life rooted in presence — not as an ideal to achieve, but as a living practice that deepens with time.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung
Her approach draws on formal training in mindfulness and meditation, counseling psychology, neuroscience, positive neuroplasticity, wellness science, and lifestyle change — integrated into a practice that is warm, grounded, and genuinely transformative.