Welcome to Ember & Oak Therapy Co.
Ember & Oak Therapy Co. is a warm, earthy, and deeply rooted therapy practice for individuals and couples moving through life’s tender thresholds: pregnancy, postpartum, parenthood, sex and intimacy, midlife, aging, and the evolving landscape of relationships as they take different shapes over time.
Our Therapeutic Approach
Our work is depth-oriented, relational, and deeply human. It is rooted in experiential, attachment and humanistic psychotherapy, and integrates somatic awareness, parts work, imagery, mindfulness, feminist and systemic perspectives, and intuitive ways of knowing.
Together, we slow down and listen to the wisdom of your body, tending to both grief and joy as we make space for what is quietly emerging in your life. Our work may include emotional processing, trauma healing, and reparenting younger parts of the self, and at times, creative, nature-based, and archetypal ways of meaning-making.
Hannah and Jen’s partnership in Ember & Oak holds a wide arc of the human experience, supporting individuals and couples from the threshold of pre-parenthood through postpartum, midlife, and into the deeper, often unnamed and sometimes lonely seasons of aging.
There is a natural generational rhythm between us that we value deeply. It allows us to bring perspective from different life stages while staying rooted in shared presence and care. We have found that connection and wisdom exist across time. Insight does not belong to any one season of life, but gathered, woven, layered, and lived into.
Meet the Team
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Jen Patterson
LCSW, FOUNDER
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Hannah Hazel
LCSW, FOUNDER
Ember
Ember speaks to the quiet, enduring emotional life within us; the part that remains alive even through heartache, disconnection, and change. It carries warmth, memory, and the possibility of rekindling connection with ourselves and with those we love. Even in seasons that feel uncertain or dim, something within us remains alive and capable of being gently reawakened.
Oak
Oak represents strength, wisdom, rootedness, and resilience. Like the oak tree, healing is not rushed, but tended to with curiosity and patience. It unfolds over time through lived experience and the emergence of new ways of relating to ourselves and others. The oak reminds us that even through life’s changing seasons, there is something steady within us that can hold fast and endure.
In-person and remote options
Our office is conveniently located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Our Offerings
