Meet Jackie
15 years professional experience: educational, clinical, and retreats.
Jacqueline Jones owns and operates Flourish Momentum, integrative health and wellness for mind, body, soul, space. She draws on her professional experience in education, art therapy, yoga, meditation, ayurveda, integrative nutrition health coaching, energy healing, and feng shui to offer a proprietary blend of services to holistically support clients to optimized all around wellness.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art, Master of Education, and Master of Arts in Art Therapy. She is a Board Certified Art Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher, Certified Energy Medicine Yoga Teacher, Certified Zentangle Teacher, and Master Level Reiki Practitioner and Feng Shui Consultant.
She taught art in Fairfax County Public Schools before becoming an art therapist. Since 2011 she has been providing clinical art therapy, first to pediatric oncology and hematology patients at Georgetown University Hospital, then, since 2012, to active duty service members in rehabilitative treatment for invisible wounds of war such as traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, and chronic pain at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Intrepid Spirit One at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, and at The Invisible Wounds Center at Eglin Air Force Base.
Since 2018 she has been providing yoga and iRest yoga nidra therapeutically as well; additionally, she has been providing energy healing, health coaching, and feng shui therapeutically since 2021.
In 2021 she launched her private practice, Flourish Momentum, to work with clients using a full spectrum holistic approach that addresses mind, body, soul, and space to heal and transmute physical and emotional pain and achieve and maintain desired wellness goals. She works therapeutically with clients one-on-one as well as provides therapeutic groups and wellness events to non-profit and for-profit organizations in a variety of contexts to support needs of staff, clientele, and community. She offers services live in-person and virtually, and provides content to stream online.
She has researched, published, and presented nationally and internationally on program development and evaluation of clinical art therapy to treat TBI and PTSD in military populations as well as utilizing art therapy to treat complicated and disenfranchised grief among military service members. More recently she has presented and spoken on utilizing her holistic approach to address complex issues and chronic conditions across service and civilian populations.
Let’s Raise the Bar from Merely Surviving to Truly Thriving
Here, you’re not just a number; you’re an individual with a unique path to optimal well-being
If you’re here, chances are you are the type of person who pushes your limits, strives for excellence, and doesn’t like to be slowed down or have your performance negatively impacted by anything, especially not your physical or mental health. Maybe over the course of your life, you’ve developed some chronic conditions that you’ve been hiding, or maybe your symptoms have caught up to you and you’re struggling with how to best take back control of your health, happiness, and your life.
If you’re like me, you’ve been through the frustrating process of chasing symptoms, where doctors or specialists don’t see your body as a whole system. I didn’t want to get stuck in a cycle where I would need a medication to treat the side effects of another medication. (Sound familiar?) Or worse, agree to proposed solutions that would permanently change parts of my body to treat one issue but permanently cause a slew of new issues to manage. (Like snipping part of my brain to “fix” something I’ve been able to resolve naturally through yoga instead.)
My journey began with my own struggles with:
- Experiencing bullying and divorce in childhood
- Worsening hyperhidrosis and chronic migraines in adolescence
- Diagnoses of traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and situational depression in adulthood
I know first-hand how isolating and overwhelming challenges like these can be. But through holistic methods, I’ve learned to not only reduce and manage these health concerns but to thrive beyond them. In fact, through the journey of my integrative approach I enjoy greater health and wellness than at any time before. And I’ve had numerous clients share the same.
Art was my first coping method growing up, leading me to a career in art therapy to help others heal through the power of art. As an adult, I realized just how highly sensitive I am to everyday environmental factors and prescription drugs. Leaning into holistic approaches, I not only learned to reduce and manage my symptoms naturally but gained a sense of empowerment, fun, and freedom. I moved away from feeling fragmented to finding wholeness and harmony.
Now, I have the privilege of guiding others on their unique paths to health and wellness. My experience includes supporting a variety of people through diverse physical and emotional concerns. Each person I work with receives a completely individualized approach— no two healing journeys are the same.
My work with others isn’t merely based on work I’ve done on myself. I have over a dozen years of clinical experience using holistic methods to heal our elite service members, some of the highest stress-enduring people on the planet, from chronic visible and invisible wounds of war and life.
I’ve worked with individuals from diverse ages and backgrounds, addressing a wide range of physical and emotional health concerns. My experience includes supporting people through challenges such as chronic illness, chronic pain, trauma, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, chronic health conditions, cancer, homelessness, histories of abuse, trauma, incarceration, grief and loss, chronic stress, identity issues, guilt and shame, major life transitions, divorce, relationship issues, suicidal ideations, substance dependency, feeling lost, sleep issues, and much more.
My toolbox of offerings grew from art therapy to including yoga, Ayurveda, meditation, health coaching, energy healing, and Feng Shui, as it became more and more clear that to truly transform any condition or source of disease, whether primarily physical or mental health, the person needs to be addressed holistically, on levels of mind, body, soul, and environment.
And thus, Flourish Momentum was born.
Curious how my approach can help you too? Let’s explore your path to wholeness together.
To speak of Jackie’s work, is to speak of the extreme progress I have made working with her. She never lets me “fall off the wagon” and holds me accountable to doing important self work.
She listens, tailors sessions perfectly surrounding my trauma, my anxiety attacks, my triggers, my pain. I couldn’t think of a more well equipped person to be on this journey of chronic pain and overall self wellness with me than Jackie. She’s resilient, graceful, knowledgeable, funny as all hell, and can lead you down any path you would need to elevate your wellness and overall happiness.
I cannot recommend her enough, YOU NEED HER IN YOUR LIFE.
As a Speech Pathologist working in the speech/cognitive domain we rely so heavily on words and a person’s ability to describe things they’re experiencing, feeling, and where they are falling short. Through working with Jackie and sharing patients that also participated in Art and Yoga, I learned the other means by which patients can express themselves and other ways to reach them that don’t require words and are often, in fact, more effective in unlocking what has been buried in the brain.
Working with Jackie isn’t just hiring another coach, it’s making an investment in yourself, one that I don’t believe anybody would regret.
Why Jackie is Your Healing Ally
Discover the Difference
Hybrid Therapist/Coach
I can meet you where you truly are AND get you to where you want to be WITHOUT you feeling pathologized or stuck in victim or sick roles. Your healing journey will be forward moving while honoring the whole you.
Walk the Walk
I walk the walk, live and breathe what I teach, practice what I preach…you get the gist.
Certified Across the Board
- BA Bachelor of Art in Studio Art – UMD – 2006
- MED Master of Education in Art Education – UMD 2008
- MED Master of Arts in Art Therapy – GWU 2013
- ATR-BC – Board Certified Art Therapist – 2017
- 200 hr Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Training – 2018
- 200RYT – Registered Yoga Teacher 2018
- Certified Zentangle Teacher – 2019
- Veterans Yoga Project Resiliency Training Certification – 2019
- Certified iRest Yoga Nidra Teacher – 2020
- Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Certification – 2020
- Plant Based Nutrition Certificate – 2020
- Usui Reiki Level 1, Level 2, and Master – 2019, 2020, 2021
- ThetaHealing Level 1 and Advanced Certification – 2021
- Feng Shui Master Consultant Certification – 2021
- Certified Energy Medicine Yoga Teacher – 2021
- Advanced Singing Bowl Therapy Training – 2022
- Karuna Reiki Level 1 – 2023
- 300 hr Holistic Yoga and Ayurveda Teacher Training — 2023
- 500RYT – Registered Yoga Teacher – 2023
- 200 hr Meditation Teacher – 2024
Not accrued in pursuit of stacking credentials, but because these played transformative roles in my life and I wanted to be able to share them with you with integrity.
Time Tested Results
Many people I’ve worked with in the past in free clinics have found my private practice and have worked with me again, saying “this was the most helpful part of my treatment”
I worked with Jackie while I was still in the military, at the Eglin AFB TBI clinic. She opened up a whole new side of healthy coping mechanisms and helped me to tap into healing modalities that actually worked for me.
Fast forward 3 years later, and I’m working with her again now! We’ve been practicing yoga, yoga nidra, and other healing treatments and I’m happy to say that my blood pressure is down, my hormones are leveling out and my thyroid is functioning again – all without having to take pills. I highly recommend working with Jackie!
I was having major sleep issues, PTSD, IBS, and a multitude of other problems. My garbage dump of a lifestyle was a major contributor to my ailments. Through Jackie’s course of instruction, I have gained back control of my life of being healthy, mentally and physically. With her help, one of my biggest problems was to learn to calm my mind in order to get peaceful and restful sleep. Through tracking my sleep patterns over the courses I have been able to show how her therapy had helped me regain a healthy sleep pattern and normal gut for once in many years.
As a Combat Veteran who was dealing with many issues, I can now successfully say Jacqueline has given me a basket full of tools to become a new and better version of myself.
Jackie’s Published Works
Chapters in Books:
“Art therapy to address disenfranchised grief in military service members” in The International Handbook of Art Therapy in Palliative and Bereavement Care. Edited by Michele Wood and Becky Jacobson. 2019. Routledge.
“Complicated Grief: Considerations for treatment of military populations” in Art Therapy with Military Populations: History, Innovations, and Applications. Edited by Paula Howie. 2017. Routledge.
Peer Reviewed Journals:
Long-term art therapy clinical interventions with military service members with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress: Findings from a mixed methods program evaluation study. February 2021. Military Psychology.
Art therapy for military service members with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury: Three case reports highlighting trajectories of treatment and recovery. May 2019. The Arts in Psychotherapy.
Evaluation of long- and short-term art therapy interventions in an integrative care setting for military service members with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury. October 2018. The Arts in Psychotherapy.
Art therapy interventions for active duty military service members with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. November 2017. International Journal of Art Therapy.
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