SereniTea Solutions
Real Talk. Real Tools. Real Change.
Why SereniTea?
Around Here, We Spill the Tea a Little Differently.
Not gossip.
Not someone else’s story.
Your story.
The one you’ve been carrying. The questions you haven’t quite known how to ask. The complicated parts of life and helping work that don’t always fit neatly into a box.
Whether that conversation happens in counseling, supervision, consultation, or around a training table, we make room for honest questions, curiosity, and the occasional uncomfortable truth.
No posturing. No pretending.
Bring what’s real. Give it room to breathe. Carry something useful home.
About SereniTea Solutions
Meet Us on the Front Porch
Front Porch Learning wasn't created just to offer continuing education.
It was created because we believe counselors deserve a place where questions are welcomed, difficult cases can be discussed honestly, and learning continues long after graduate school.
A place where research meets real life.
Where theory becomes practice.
Where experience
Front Porch Learning wasn't created just to offer continuing education.
It was created because we believe counselors deserve a place where questions are welcomed, difficult cases can be discussed honestly, and learning continues long after graduate school.
A place where research meets real life.
Where theory becomes practice.
Where experienced clinicians keep learning right alongside those just beginning their journey.
Every Front Porch Learning session brings together two complementary perspectives—understanding the story our clients carry and translating that understanding into ethical, practical, compassionate care.
Pull up a chair.
We're glad you're here.
Two Perspectives. One Purpose.
Trauma Understanding
Looking beneath behaviors to understand how attachment, adversity, relationships, and development shape the people we serve.
Clinical Application
Turning that understanding into ethical assessment, thoughtful documentation, practical interventions, and everyday clinical confidence.
Meet JJ
Jennifer "JJ" Larson, MS, LPC-S, NCC
SereniTea Solutions Founder | Clinician-Educator
Turning Understanding Into Practice
Hi, I’m JJ.
For nearly thirty years, I’ve worked across behavioral health, higher education, school-based mental health, and private practice. Along the way, I’ve supervised clinicians, developed programs, responded to
Jennifer "JJ" Larson, MS, LPC-S, NCC
SereniTea Solutions Founder | Clinician-Educator
Turning Understanding Into Practice
Hi, I’m JJ.
For nearly thirty years, I’ve worked across behavioral health, higher education, school-based mental health, and private practice. Along the way, I’ve supervised clinicians, developed programs, responded to crises, and partnered with professionals across schools, hospitals, universities, and community agencies.
One lesson has stayed with me: Understanding matters. Knowing what to do with that understanding matters just as much.
How do we recognize what we’re seeing? How do we document it well?
How do we explain it to families?
How do we remain ethical while offering compassionate care?
Those are the conversations I enjoy most.
Whether I’m counseling, supervising, consulting, or teaching, my goal is the same: help people leave with greater clarity, confidence, and something practical they can use.
Because good learning shouldn’t stay in a notebook. It should show up in the work.
Meet Denver
Meet Denver
Denver Dykes, MA, LPC-S, CCTP-II
Front Porch Learning | Clinician-Educator
Seeing the Story Beyond the Symptoms
Hi, I'm Denver.
My counseling journey didn’t begin in my twenties. Like many of the clients I now serve, my path took a few unexpected turns. Returning to school as an adult reminded me that growth rarely follows a schedule—and th
Denver Dykes, MA, LPC-S, CCTP-II
Front Porch Learning | Clinician-Educator
Seeing the Story Beyond the Symptoms
Hi, I'm Denver.
My counseling journey didn’t begin in my twenties. Like many of the clients I now serve, my path took a few unexpected turns. Returning to school as an adult reminded me that growth rarely follows a schedule—and that it’s never too late for hope, healing, or a new beginning.
During graduate school, I discovered developmental trauma. Learning how attachment, neglect, loss, and early relationships shape our lives transformed the way I understood people—and the way I practice counseling.
Today, my work focuses on helping adults understand the lasting effects of complex trauma, shame, emotional dysregulation, and attachment wounds. I’ve continued growing through advanced trauma training, EMDR, and certification as a Certified Complex Trauma Professional.
I seek to help clinicians look beneath behaviors & symptoms to understand the adaptations that helped people survive.
Because when we understand the story beneath the symptoms, we respond with greater compassion, curiosity, and confidence.