We’re looking forward to introducing you to Dr. Jennifer Stover. Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Jennifer, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
Right now I am working to build Be Well Black and Date Night With Dr. Jenn which are platforms dedicated to supporting Black communities, families, and couples. Pouring into and celebrating my community and creating spaces for us to be well as a people brings me joy!
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Dr. Jennifer Hatchett Stover, a Licensed Professional Counselor, supervisor, educator, advocate, and founder of multiple initiatives designed to center healing, connection, and cultural authenticity. Through my work, I aim to decolonize mental health care and make wellness more accessible, relatable, and affirming, especially for communities that are often left out of the conversation.
I’m the founder of Counseling in Color, a culturally responsive group practice that provides therapy across the lifespan with a focus on trauma, identity, and justice-centered care. Our goal is simple: make space where clients feel seen, understood, and empowered to heal on their terms.
I also created Be Well Black, a movement and mental wellness expo that celebrates Black culture while tackling disparities in access to mental health care. We create space for joy, resistance, education, and healing through community gatherings, wellness resources, and scholarships. Be Well Black is more than an event, it’s a call to action and a celebration of our collective power.
And for couples looking to reconnect, I host Date Night with Dr. Jenn, a relationship series rooted in Black love, intergenerational healing, and real conversations. Whether through crash courses or intensives, I help couples strengthen their bonds, break cycles, and build something sustainable, with a little fun along the way.
Each of my brands is rooted in authenticity, cultural truth, and a deep belief that healing is a birthright. Right now, I’m working on expanding these platforms into even bigger movements, from scaling Counseling in Color to include LPC Associates and interns, to growing Be Well Black into a national wellness festival, to launching new workshops for couples and families.
At the heart of it all is this: I believe in showing up fully, making healing feel less clinical and more communal, and helping people come home to themselves.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
The part of me that has served its purpose, and must now be released, is the version of me that believed I had to hustle beyond my capacity to be seen, to be valuable, or to be “enough.”
For years, I wore busyness like armor. I poured into my community, my clients, my students, my family, while quietly abandoning my own rest. I equated worth with work, and impact with exhaustion. But I’ve learned that hustle without boundaries is not purpose; it’s a performance. It’s survival.
Now, I’m releasing the need to prove myself through overextension. I’m reclaiming ease. I’m building, still, but from a place of intention, alignment, and sustainability.
When did you stop hiding your pain and start using it as power?
For years, I carried the weight of endometriosis and infertility like a secret shame and sometimes as if it it never existed. I learned that avoiding it or pushing through it didn’t make it any less real. I have now reclaimed power in my infertility story by sharing my journey with others. By creating opportunities to share experiences, provide education, and cultivate wound healing, I’ve turned my pain into purpose.
I realized that my silence wasn’t protecting me, it was suffocating me. Now, I speak not just for myself, but for the countless women navigating monthly heartbreak, surgical recoveries, and unanswered questions in a system that often dismisses our pain. Through storytelling, advocacy, and platforms like Slaying in Fertility and Be Well Black, I’m helping others know they are not alone, and that their journey, no matter how complicated or unspoken, is valid.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What do you believe is true but cannot prove?
I believe that Black people are born with divine royalty woven into our DNA and ancestral strength that cannot be measured, only felt.
I believe that our resilience predates our oppression.
That our joy is an act of resistance.
That our brilliance existed before the world had words for it.
I believe that no system, no institution, no erasure can undo the sacredness of our existence. That the prayers of our ancestors are still walking with us, and that we carry their unfinished dreams in our blood.
I can’t prove it in a lab or research study, but I see it in the way we rise, love, create, grieve, rebuild, and shine.
I feel that power. I witness that truth.
I believe deep in my bones that we are not just meant to survive. We are destined to reign.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. What will you regret not doing?
RESTING!
Contact Info:
- Website: http://counselingincolor.net
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamdrjenn
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-stover
- Other: TikTok @iamdrjenn
Image Credits
Cedric Stover
Justin Griggs
