Hi, I’m Jozelyn Bowie, BS, MSW Intern

I am so excited to meet you!

Currently, I am a graduate clinical intern at Growing Well Counseling working towards my Masters of Social Work.

Navigating pregnancy, loss, mental health, and societal expectations can be overwhelming and, often, isolating. I am passionate about supporting, empowering, and validating clients through the complex highs and lows of life transitions.

Isn’t it interesting how changes ripple through our lives? Loss, transition, and new life often leads to changes in emotion, identity, relationships, and even life direction.

Regardless of where you are in this journey, I promise to meet you with empathy, collaboration, practicality, and stability.

I will meet you where you are.

My personal experiences have shaped my perspectives and led me to this practice. For 10 years, I have focused on working with vulnerable populations– refugees, disabled adults and children, domestic violence survivors, homeless families, and more.

In 2018, I took a leap of faith and moved to Connecticut. Here, I found myself living in a RV with no local support system, no job, and a positive pregnancy test. I gave birth to my first daughter in 2019, my second in 2021. The whole world was becoming increasingly-isolated and dangerously viral. Having babies was a constant barrage of vibrant and conflicting feelings-magic, connection, exhaustion, loss of self, development of self, pain, and pleasure.

At times, I found myself wishing I could be like the mothers I saw around me– beautiful women looking through luxury home catalogs for the perfect crib, the perfect paint color for their newborn’s perfect room. Reality is rarely as perfect as it may appear- at times those parents struggle just as much as we all can.

After befriending mothers of all backgrounds, I saw how anxiety captured almost everyone, how a beautifully curated nursery doesn’t have an effect on the experience of becoming a parent and navigating the raw complexities of life itself. In some ways, my circumstances protected me from the expectation of perfection. I was able to hold space for my friends, like I had held space for so many people experiencing different versions of life transitions in my professional life.

Perinatal therapy may involve challenging our ingrained expectations. Sometimes, this allows for a more beautiful, connected experience. Sometimes, we may find ourselves in these grand life-transitions wondering “What is the point of all this? What am I doing? Where am I going? How can I handle this?”

I am here to be part of your team, to hold your vulnerability with sensitive care. I will support your resilience and your humanity as you face significant life changes and transitions.

Let’s be honest: life can be messy and unkind, but you can do this and you don’t have to do this alone

Jozelyn is seeing clients via telehealth and in Tolland with a special focus on neurodiversity in parenting. She can see folks on a sliding scale/reduced fee.