Jenny Forman, Meditation coach

Jenny Forman, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience in practicing and teaching mindfulness meditation. As a mindfulness coach, she helps her clients transform their relationship with anxiety and stress, allowing them to perform their best when faced with inevitable challenges.

Jenny earned her BS in Economics with a minor in Japanese. After college she spent several years living in Japan and traveling throughout Asia, where she became deeply interested in mindfulness meditation. She pursued this interest when she returned to the United States, obtaining her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in 2004.  She will be completing her 2-year certification in January 2021 as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Awareness Training Institute.  

In addition to mindfulness meditation, Jenny specializes in diagnosing and treating learning obstacles for students of all ages. In her clinical practice, she uses her background in education to identify the root causes of the problem and provide tailored plans so that her clients can thrive academically. 

As a mindfulness coach, she works with individuals, groups, and organizations to help others transform their relationship to anxiety and stress by developing a greater capacity to recognize, investigate, and allow challenges to arise without resisting or reacting to them, breaking the stress cycle. In turn, her clients experience greater equanimity when faced with inevitable fears, worries, tension, and challenges, as well as greater self-confidence and empowerment to handle unexpected problems and distress.  

In her spare time, Jenny enjoys doing yoga, biking, hiking, meditating, and spending time with family and friends in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her private practice is located. 

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