Restore, then Expand.

Welcome. I’m Jaclyn — Integrative Restoration Practitioner and founder of River + Rise.

I began my career as a pediatric emergency and surgical nurse, where I witnessed the power of modern medicine firsthand. Those systems save lives every day, and I respect them deeply. But I also saw something they often can’t fully reach: the stress, trauma, and survival patterns the body continues to carry long after treatment ends.

At the same time, I was navigating my own health challenges — postpartum complications, migraines, and major life shifts. I knew how to keep functioning, but I also knew we’re not here just to survive.

That led me to this work.

I help people restore the nervous system through restorative sessions, regulation, and energetic clearing — releasing what the body has been holding so it can recalibrate and operate the way it was designed to.

Because healing isn’t just about managing symptoms. It’s about creating enough safety and stability in the body for real expansion to happen.

When the nervous system feels safe, people don’t just cope better — they become more alive, creative, connected + fully themselves.

River + Rise was created as a space for that restoration and expansion to exist together.

Because the goal isn’t simply relief. It’s a life lived at full capacity.

— Jaclyn

the roots that hold my work

  • Registered Nurse, BSN- with an Academic Minor in Psychology 
  • Trauma + Advanced Pediatric Acute Care Certifications- TNCC, PALS and CPEN 
  • Spinal Energetics Certified Practitioner - through Dr. Sarah Jane Perri | AUSTRALIA
  • Quantum Healing Ascension Certified - Levels 1 + 2
  • Registered Yoga Instructor, Vinyasa Yoga

a few of my favorite things ↓

my idea of a perfect day includes river swims, a record playing and no plans.

my fav movies of all time are interstellar, arrival, don't look up + guardians of the galaxy. there's a theme haha

i live by the river with my husband, two littles, a bernese mtn dog + a coop full of chickens named after guardians of the galaxy characters

i like my iced coffee black + my pizza homemade.

absolutely nothing lights me up more than witnessing a woman come back to herself.