Meet our Research and Program Design Team

Jessica Shea, LCSW

Have you ever experienced flow or that state of operation where you are totally immersed in a feeling of energy, focus, and enjoyment from an activity? We get there by following our values to guide our activities and by managing stress effectively. Jessica approaches counseling and consulting from a values-based perspective, guiding her clients to investigate and solidify their core values and work toward rebuilding their lives, or their company, around these beliefs so they can experience flow. Jessica is passionate about the intersection of health and nature and offers solutions to stress from this intersection.

Jessica has over 14 years of experience in counseling, marketing, small business startups, and non-profit launches. She has helped people overcome severe childhood trauma, overcome depression and harness the energy of anxiety or anger. She has helped some of those same people go on to launch profitable and fulfilling startups.  

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Amy Wardinski, BS

Amy is an experienced researcher specializing in qualitative and market research. She is familiar with traditional and custom-designed research strategies and techniques and utilizes mixed-method approaches to conceptualize, implement and analyze behavioral research studies. She has established competence in developing, implementing, and evaluating social and human services programs. Other than Amy’s years of research, she has demonstrated a deep understanding of people in crisis with over 10 years of experience in emergency operations as an emergency telecommunicator/supervisor. Relevant Highlights of Amy’s experience include: Undergraduate research on Social-Emotional Impairment Stemming from Adverse Childhood Experience Served as the lead researcher in developing a groundbreaking survey for HIV/AIDS stigma reduction in the Mid-South,  Implemented evidence-based critical incident and stress management program for emergency telecommunicators, Certifications in compassion fatigue, critical incident debriefing, advanced crisis intervention, Training “911 Homicide: Is the Caller the Killer?, Training “Recognizing workplace violence”

To receive more information or schedule a session with Amy, fill out our Contact Us form here.