Run on New Fuel

Trauma therapy and career coaching for women whose competence stopped being optional.

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You've arrived at a threshold.

Your mind is tired. Your body has been saying so for a while.

Something underneath is grieving.

The engine still wants to run. It just can't anymore, not without burning what's left.

So you decide, again, that the engine is the problem. That something is wrong with you.

The truth is -

The engine was never the problem.

The fuel was.

A woman with shoulder-length red hair smiling outdoors at sunset, wearing a white t-shirt and floral pants.

Hi. I'm JaeJeung.

I also go by "JJ."

I work at one intersection: complex trauma, masked neurodivergence, and a career that no longer fits.

Freedom has its own language. A nervous system built for survival doesn't speak it.

I know because I built one.

Survival mistaken for strength.
People-pleasing confused for empathy.
Ambition to prove I deserved to be here.

It held. Until it didn't.

Learning that language is the work I did. Twenty years on, it's the work I do.

Learn more about JJ

Here’s How We Can Work Together

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    Trauma Intensives

    Some things can't be pruned into submission. They have to come out at the root.

    That's what intensives are for — finding exactly where the wound took hold, and releasing it. Completely. In hours, not years.

    About Intensives
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    Authenticity Coaching

    Once the ground is clear, something has to grow there.

    Coaching is learning how to tend it — how to choose what you plant, how to know what's yours, how to build a life that actually belongs to you.

    About Coaching

Reviews

  • "Every session with JJ was impactful, progressing through a mixture of developing therapeutic skills and new insights. We could quickly assess a wide variety of approaches to therapy and identify what worked really well for me. Between each session I had tools to apply that reliably made a big differences. And we routinely addressed what I brought to each session. Gradually, I witnessed my orientation to my "issues" changing, whereby I felt ever more equipped to address whatever should arise. My life started to feel more honest and my heart more open. My time with JJ changed my life."

    Client, resolved complex trauma

  • “I have been to therapy multiple times and have never really clicked with anyone before JaeJeung. She was able to understand the deeper injuries beneath my depression and negativity and helped me to heal those wounds. I feel more capable to face the challenges of life now that I know how to handle my emotions and fears. I can finally feel happiness again that reaches the edges of my soul. I am beyond grateful."

    Client, resolved depression and negative self-perception

  • "From the outset of therapy with JJ, I found it extraordinarily easy to connect with her. She has an authenticity and sincerity I could sense right away, and it was so easy to be honest and vulnerable in our sessions. Eventually, I felt safe enough so that I was not holding anything back, which was, itself, a unique and incredibly powerful experience for me. For example, I was able to offer and witness (and let go of!) even my deepest feelings of shame, which I hadn't previously been able to show myself, let alone someone else."

    Client, resolved childhood trauma

  • "JJ is a transformative therapist and teacher. She practices therapy with such sincerity and authenticity, so that it's easy and therapeutic to trust her. She is so adept at listening, seeing, and understanding. One can feel her openness and lack of judgment, which is also therapeutic and creates an incredibly ripe environment for true witnessing and change. She is incredibly skillful at helping, easily shifting among a large variety of therapeutic approaches to find what fits. She is just an unbelievably gifted therapist in my opinion."

    Client, resolved complex trauma

  • “I feel like an adult for the first time”

    Client, resolved complex childhood trauma

  • “JJ is very professional and makes you feel important and worth her time. Her intelligence and compassion makes her kind, attentive and incredibly resourceful. She will gentrly challenge you to make positive changes in your life, and be with you every step of the healing process.”

    Client, resolved dissociation in relationships

  • “I got something out of every single session. JJ has a very refined eye. I often came in with a tangled cloud of abstractions and she never failed to find the string that connected it all. Because of this, I felt like I often moved rather quickly, in a positive sense. I also felt very well taken care of in every issue that I brought in, from the cultural aspect to the trauma-related fears to the individuating process."

    Client, resolved struggle with individuation and career alignment

  • “JJ has a lot of knowledge and experience with trauma work and art therapy, both of which I benefited from in my sessions. She is understanding but also frank about situations. I also appreciated her sense of humor that helped build rapport and made discussing more difficult experiences easier.”

    Client, resolved self-doubt and anxiety stemming from toxic relationship

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Imagine

  • Knowing what you want — not what you're supposed to want.

  • Taking in the good without listening for the other shoe.

  • Motivated by inspiration instead of urgency.

  • Choosing from desire rather than from fear dressed as responsibility.

  • Not another “better version” of you. You, with the fuel changed.

That’s what’s waiting.

Here’s how to get started

Book — A free 20-minute conversation. No paperwork, no intake forms. Just us figuring out if this is the right fit.

Meet — Ask me anything. I'll be straight with you about what I think the work looks like and whether I can help.

Begin — When you're ready. Not before.

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