14+ Years Experience · Licensed VA, MA & NY · Author of SPENT
✦ 14+ Years Clinical Experience ✦ Licensed VA, MA & NY ✦ Psychology Today Verified ✦ Co-Author, SPENT (HCI, 2026) ✦ Keynote Speaker
LICENSED IN VA, MA & NY | 14+ YEARS CLINICAL EXPERIENCE | PSYCHOLOGY TODAY VERIFIED
You’ve mastered everything except this.
Depth therapy for high-achieving professionals and couples ready to stop performing and start connecting.
Practicing Since 2012 · Psychodynamic · Trauma-Informed · IFS-Informed · Verified by Psychology Today · Co-Author, SPENT (HCI, 2026)
14+
Years of Clinical Experience
Psychodynamic · IFS · Jungian · Attachment
3
States Licensed
Virginia · Massachusetts · New York
2026
Book Publishing
SPENT: An IFS Approach to Relationship Conflict
For over a decade, I've sat with individuals and couples doing the kind of work that doesn't show up in self-help books. The work behind the work. The conversation underneath the argument. The longing underneath the shutdown.
My practice is built on a clinical foundation that many therapists only touch the surface of: psychodynamic depth, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Jungian-informed parts work, attachment theory, and relational training. In plain language, you don't have to figure yourself out alone, and you don't have to keep repeating the same pain to make sense of it.
You came here for a reason.
About Jenny
"To be human is to be visible. To be visible is to risk. To risk is to be brave. My job is to make the risk worth it." - Jenny Pfeiffer, MA. LPC.
I'm Jenny Pfeiffer, MA, LPC. I hold a Master's Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, with additional graduate study in Research Psychology,
Divinity, and Journalism. Before I trained as a therapist,
I trained as a listener of complicated stories - across cultures, across institutions, across the tender and political places where people actually live.
I was born and raised in Durban, South Africa. That formation matters. It taught me early that pain doesn't happen in isolation.
It happens inside families, inside histories, inside cultures that shape what we're allowed to feel and what we have to hide.
I bring that perspective into every room.
My clinical work is rooted in:
Psychodynamic and depth-oriented therapy
- because today's symptom is almost always yesterday's solution.Internal Family Systems (IFS) and parts work
- because none of us are one self. We are a system, and the system can heal.Jungian-informed practice
- because the symbols, dreams, and stories your psyche keeps showing you are not random. They are messengers.Attachment and relational theory
- because we are wired for connection, and we are also wired by it.Trauma-informed care
- because the body keeps the score, and the nervous system needs more than insight to settle.
This isn't a "techniques and tools" practice.
This is a depth practice. We will go where the real work lives.
Why Fiercely Connect?
There's the part of you that braces. The part that performs. The part that goes quiet when it would rather scream. The part that picks the fight to feel the closeness. And underneath all of them, a younger self - still waiting to be met.
When those parts run the show without our awareness, we end up estranged from ourselves and from the people we love most. We shut down in the moments we most want to stay. We push away the very thing we ache for. We mistake protection for personality.
The work I do isn't about silencing those parts. It's about getting curious enough to know them. Knowing them is what loosens their grip. Curiosity is what makes change possible. And once your inner system is no longer at war with itself, your outer relationships finally have room to breathe.
This is what I mean by fiercely connecting:
Fierce enough to tell the truth.
Tender enough to stay when it gets hard.
Connected enough to repair what breaks.
That's not a slogan. That's the work.
Inside every one of us is a small inner system
- a council of voices that learned to keep us safe long before we knew their names.
Inside every one of us is a small inner system - a council of voices that learned to keep us safe long before we knew their names.
Ready to do the real work?
A 15-minute consultation is free. No pressure, no jargon. Just an honest conversation about what you need.
