Dr. Sweeton is the founder and owner of a trauma-informed group practice, Kansas City Mental Health Associates, which provides an array of clinical services to include treatment for PTSD, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, etc. Dr. Sweeton’s clinical expertise is in the area of PTSD, and she is trained in EMDR, CPT, and other prominent trauma therapies.
Dr. Sweeton developed Neural Desensitization and Integration Training (NDIT) to treat PTSD as well as help her therapy and coaching clients harness the power of neuroscience to process thoughts and emotions in a healthier way. NDIT is a progressive, evidence-informed, module-based, brain training program that teaches clients how to identify, desensitize, restructure, and process distressing memories, beliefs, emotions, and even physical sensations.
“My main mission is to help high-achieving individuals recover from psychological injury and trauma, and optimize their brain functioning to improve their work performance, relationships, and health.”
Jennifer also provides brain optimization coaching to executives, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, and other high-achieving individuals. She helps her coaching clients identify and overcome the cognitive and emotional blocks that prevent them from achieving their full professional and personal potential. Some challenges her coaching clients encounter may include fear of not being good enough or not having the capability to to achieve success. Aside from therapy and coaching, Dr. Sweeton is also sought after worldwide as a speaker who trains other mental health clinicians in the latest neuroscience-based approaches to trauma treatment. To-date, she has trained thousands of mental health professionals throughout all 50 U.S. states and abroad in more than 20 countries.
“I am currently very passionate about continuing and professional education for mental health professionals. I’ve realized that training other professionals is a way to reach a broader audience and help more people at once, and I immensely enjoy giving seminars, webinars, and workshops on topics such as neuropsychotherapy, trauma, and anxiety. Additionally, I very much enjoy coaching mental health professionals who are struggling with life design, starting a practice, and balancing life’s demands, and I hope to do more of this in the future.”
Her seminars and training have covered numerous psychotherapeutic approaches useful for treating trauma and related or co-morbid mental health concerns. Because she stays up-to-date on the latest research and techniques in the treatment of psychological trauma across various client populations, it’s not uncommon for clinicians to attend her workshops year over year.
