Meet Dr. J.
Trauma therapist, counselor educator, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and U.S. Army veteran, working with clients and clinicians online.
Dr. Arielle N. Jordan served in the U.S. Army from 2008 to 2017, then treated active-duty service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Military culture still shapes how she shows up: direct, practical, and steady when things get heavy.
Grief is personal for Dr. Jordan. She is a loss mother, and her doctoral research focused on Black mothers who lost an only child. That dissertation has now been downloaded more than 1,600 times by readers in 57 countries. The work became Grief Intelligence®, the federally registered framework she shares from stages like TEDx, and The Jordyn Effect, the nonprofit she founded in her daughter's honor.
At Mindset Quality, Dr. Jordan treats trauma and grief with EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Written Exposure Therapy. She also trains and consults with EMDR clinicians in the U.S. and abroad on racial trauma, moral injury, and repairing treatment ruptures with cultural humility. In 2026, EMDRIA named her an Emerging Leader. This fall she also began supervising doctoral students through a practicum partnership with Bowie State University.
Watch: How to Grieve Better
Dr. Jordan's TEDx talk on Grief Intelligence®, from TEDxManitou Springs.
Resilience is not healing.
It's the message Dr. J brings to veteran groups, clinical teams, and corporate offices. Surviving something and recovering from it are two different things. Many of the people we work with have gotten very good at surviving. Our job is to help with the recovering part.
Let's do the healing part.
Credentials
- PhD, Counselor Education and Supervision, Walden University
- LCPC, Maryland, LPC, Virginia
- National Certified Counselor (NCC)
- EMDRIA Certified Therapist and Approved Consultant
- Trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy and Written Exposure Therapy
- U.S. Army Veteran
Recognition & media
- EMDRIA Emerging Leader Award, 2026
- Co-presenter to about 400 clinicians, EMDRIA 2026 Conference, Anaheim
- Grief Intelligence® federally registered, October 2026
- TEDx talk, August 2026: How to Grieve Better, The Grief Intelligence® Approach
- Contributor, EMDRIA's Go With That Magazine®
- Author, Trauma Therapist Institute clinical articles
- Host, The Reset with Dr. J on WTF Nation Radio
Book Dr. J to speak
Keynotes and workshops on Grief Intelligence®, racial trauma, moral injury, and leadership wellness for conferences, agencies, and veteran organizations.
We can grieve better.