Find Your Voice Align Within

Jana is more than a guide—she is a spiritual doula, walking alongside those ready to reconnect with themselves. With an innate ability to see beyond the surface, she helps individuals recognize and remove the obstacles keeping them stuck. Her work isn’t about providing answers, but holding space for you to uncover them yourself.

With over 25 years of experience as a former pastor, relationship coach, and mentor, Jana has supported individuals and couples through some of life’s most pivotal moments. Through mentorship spanning multiple generations, as well as a lifelong relationship with embodiment and movement—beginning at age 12 as a dance instructor—she has cultivated a deeply grounded, trauma-informed approach to healing and personal growth. 

Beyond her professional roles, Jana is a devoted mother of two adult children, bringing a wealth of lived experience to her work and transforming conflict into clarity, crisis into emotional mastery, and ideas into deep, lasting shifts.

From intensive workshops to intimate fireside conversations, her work guides people through the emotional challenges of life by helping them identify and address core wounds, reclaim their personal power, and develop the tools to regulate their nervous system with confidence and resilience. Jana’s presence is a sanctuary—where you feel truly seen, heard, and understood. With her, you are not being led; you are being witnessed.

In addition to Permission to Be, Jana stepped behind the microphone and launched her podcast Up Shift's Creek - a gathering place to share the raw human experience.