“A lot of people get stuck thinking there’s nothing else they can do. But people can be so empowered in how they feel and heal — and I’ve felt it myself.”

Some people find their calling. Jessi built hers — layer by layer, over two decades of working with people navigating health challenges, stress, trauma, and a medical system that often left them more confused than helped.

Her path began in massage therapy, but it didn’t stay there long. Clients came in with tight shoulders and left talking about anxiety, trauma, and questions about their health that no one had ever really helped them answer. Jessi listened — and then she started building the skills to actually help.

She pursued a degree in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Florida, driven by a conviction that most people don’t need more information — they need someone who can help them understand their health and feel capable of taking charge of it. She went on to train in craniosacral therapy through the Upledger Institute, earn credentials in health and wellness coaching, and spend time as a chronic care management coach working alongside a highly regarded integrative medicine physician — where she deepened her understanding of functional medicine, long-term health tracking, and what it actually takes to support people through complex, chronic conditions.

What connects all of it is a simple insight Jessi recognized early: before a person can heal, their nervous system has to feel safe. That’s not a clinical footnote — it’s the foundation she builds everything on. Her own life journey taught her to be acutely attuned to whether a space feels safe, and over time she learned to channel that sensitivity into something powerful: the ability to walk into any room and start creating the conditions for real change.

Over the past two years, Jessi has trained intensively alongside Center founder Mike Cohen and Dr. John LeMay, Ph.D. — a nationally recognized expert in applied neurophysiology and qEEG analysis. Both bring decades of experience across hundreds of clinical cases and training centers, and both have identified Jessi as uniquely suited to lead.

At the Center for Brain Training, Jessi brings that same instinct to her role as Center Director. She works closely with clients using neurofeedback and brain-based tools, with a particular gift for translating what’s happening in the brain into language that actually makes sense — helping people feel informed and in control rather than overwhelmed. She also leads the clinical team, ensuring that every client’s experience is individualized, thoughtful, and grounded in the Center’s core belief: the brain is doing the work. We guide it.

Clients describe feeling heard, supported, and — often for the first time in a long time — genuinely hopeful.

When she’s not at the Center, Jessi can usually be found in the kitchen cooking something healthy (her words: “sometimes it gets annoying how much I cook”), catching a Hallmark mystery movie, or laughing with her husband, who she’ll tell you is a very good jokester.