Provisional Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Provisional Licensed Mental Health Practitioner
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Jodi Studnicka completed her practicum at Wholeness Healing Center in the Grand Island and Broken Bow offices. Jodi Studnicka, PLCSW, PLMHP joined Wholeness Healing Center in May 2011 after receiving her Master’s of Social Work from the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Jodi’s areas of interest include working with individuals and families recovering from trauma, secondary trauma, depression, anxiety, and grief. She works with transitional life changes, blended families, divorce, separation, infertility, neonatal and perinatal death, marriage issues, spirituality, and mind body issues. Jodi also takes a special interest and training in providing services for the older adult.
Experience
Jodi previously worked in areas of spirituality and pastoral ministry for the past nine years. Jodi’s previous employment includes Blessed Sacrament Parish as a pastoral associate, St. Francis Medical Center as a hospital chaplain, and most recently as a spiritual care coordinator at AseraCare Hospice. During those years, Jodi had the opportunity and privilege to empower individuals and their families in their healing. She also helped families celebrate new life or death of loved ones, and grow in their spirituality. Jodi also worked as an advocate for families in the children’s mental health system where she could bring her experiences of being a foster, adoptive, and birth parent. Jodi is currently a spiritual director, providing individual and retreat direction.
Additional Training
Jodi holds a certificate in Spiritual Direction and has completed the course work for a Master’s in Christian Spirituality from Creighton University in Omaha, NE. Jodi also completed residency in Clinical Pastoral Education from the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE. In her graduate work, Jodi was a Legends Scholar at University of Nebraska Omaha which provided additional training, research, and experience in providing mental health services for the older adult. Most recently Jodi attended training in hypnotherapy which uses a holistic approach of the mind, body, and spirit to empower individuals in making their own choices to be their best selves.
Personal
Jodi is pleased to live and work in central Nebraska and provide ongoing services to individuals, couples, and families at Wholeness Healing Center in the Grand Island and Broken Bow offices. Jodi enjoys spending time with her husband Steve and their grown daughters. She also enjoys reading, traveling, gardening, and restoring their turn of the century home.
