We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jennifer Perigord a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Jennifer, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

I had been practicing as a holistic occupational therapist for a little over year when I had the most profound experience.

It was something I had never experienced before and it left my mind racing as to what just happened.

As a holistic family oriented occupational therapist, my mission has not only been to help children develop naturally and become well adjusted little people. But also to help their parents become more resilient and happy people themselves.

On this day, I was helping a mother after several months of helping her son. Her son suffered a traumatic brain injury at 5 years old from a motor vehicle accident 2 years earlier. His mother was driving the car and also suffered multiple injuries including a fractured pelvis from the accident. I was thrilled when his mother finally agreed to have bodywork done on herself because I knew she was really suffering mentally.

While performing the traumatic stress release bodywork on the mother, I started feeling anxious myself. It really came out of no where and it was starting to make it hard for me to catch my breath. I was trying hard internally to calm myself down without the mother noticing but it was becoming too hard. I was just about to tell the mother I needed to take a quick break when the mother began to cry. Prior to this her eyes were closed and she had no emotions on her face. At that point I realized I was feeling her emotional energy!

That day I started researching energy healing methods that I could incorporate into my practice and then 6 months later I became a certified emotion code practitioner.

My take away, don’t limit yourself to the notion we are just physical bodies. We are so much more!

Jennifer, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I have been a occupational therapist for nearly 20 years. I have worked in various settings through the years but the most influential setting hands down has been working as a neonatal therapist in the NICU at the hospital.

I helped the tiniest, most fragile, and medically complicated babies whose bodies were in constant survival mode and enduring daily medical trauma start to relax their bodies. This is where I really came to understand trauma and the effects on the body and brain development.

Working with the families in the NICU, it became obvious that the babies were not the only ones suffering from trauma. This is what led me to my practice mission.

My mission as a holistic occupational therapist is to help restore the neurophysiological body and cleanse the energetic body for the whole family!

I have extensive training in the MNRI, Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration, method which uses non-invasive techniques that aim to restore genetic reflex programs in the brain to improve neurological circuits for natural development and recovery of fight/flight/freeze responses.

I am also a certified emotion code practitioner which is a energy healing modality that releases negative trapped emotions in the body from intense emotional experiences derived from one’s self or inherited from one’s parents.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

I learned early on in my career that it was very important to connect with people in order to make progress towards their goals.

However, more recently I have learned that it is even more effective to connect those goals to the universe that surrounds us.

I have had amazing outcomes for myself and my family using the law of attraction. This is what prompted me to integrate this same principle when working with clients.

The law of attraction is a philosophy that suggests positive thoughts bring positive results into a person’s life, while negative thoughts bring negative outcomes.

Every client I work with regularly I have a broad goal that I manifest weekly and share with my clients and families.

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

One of my main referral sources has been word of mouth. Which brings me so much gratification to know I helped someone and now they feel I can help their friends and family.

I think being a parent myself and having gone through some of the same struggles that the clients I work with are going through is paramount. My clinical training goes beyond certifications and seminars. I have applied my skills directly on my family members and know personally the potential every baby, child, and person possesses.

My children and family have been my best teachers. My first born son was late preterm and had a traumatic birth which led to developmental delays. We did extensive alternative therapy with him starting in infancy. Today he is an amazing 8 year old boy that loves to BMX race, DJ, scooter at the skate park, and boogie board at the beach.

My second born son although was born full term also suffered from
trauma early in infancy from a postponed circumcision. I believe this traumatic experience led to his abnormal leg and feet development and has contributed to his emotional hypersensitivity. He too has had extensive alternative therapy starting in infancy. Today he is a silly 4 year old boy that rides a bike without training wheels, tries to do everything his big brother does, and loves to snuggle.

My best friend has also benefited from my clinical skills. He too had childhood trauma and has suffered from sometimes debilitating anxiety for most of his life. He was my practice body when I was learning a new intervention modality. In the beginning there was a lot of reluctance to participate in my holistic training but now he requests it when life stresses get a little too hard to manage.

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