Your Clinicians
Deven Jennings
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
DNP, PMHNP
Dr. Deven Jennings (he/they) earned his Doctor of Nursing Practice with an emphasis in Psychiatric-Mental Health in May of 2021. He has worked in mental health for the past 5 years in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services.
Dr. Jennings graduated from Brigham Young University in April 2016 and joined Huntsman Mental Health Institute (formerly University Neuropsychiatric Institute) on the geriatric and medical psychiatric unit in inpatient services. He worked for 2 years as a charge nurse before returning to graduate school to earn his DNP. While in school, Dr. Jennings worked as a graduate assistant and outpatient psychiatric nurse with the College of Nursing at the University of Utah.
Dr. Jennings is dedicated to providing evidence-based care for those with psychiatric and behavioral health concerns. Dr. Jennings is also passionate about providing LGBTQIA+ affirming psychiatric services to clients in our community. Dr. Jennings believes in holistic approaches to mental health, including addressing mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual elements on mental health care. He is also enthusiastic about providing cutting-edge treatment options to clients, including ketamine and TMS.
When he is not working, Dr. Jennings enjoys spending time with his family, reading Harry Potter on repeat, swimming, and eating Italian food.
Sarah MacCombie (she/they/he) is a licensed occupational therapist and associate clinical mental health counselor with 11 years of experience in mental health, physical rehabilitation, and neurodiversity therapy. Sarah's passion is supporting others in discovering self awareness, acceptance, and the power to live a fulfilling and authentic life.
Sarah specializes in Transpersonal therapy, Gestalt therapy, Somatic-based trauma therapy, Process Work, CBT, dream work, inner child work, and shadow work. She also specializes in LGBTQ+ affirming therapy and affirming letter writing.
Sarah MacCombie
Clinical Director
Counselor, OTL, ACMHC
Angela Ericson
Director of Research & Development
COTA/L
Angela has been working in OT for 5 years; the last 4 years focusing on school based therapy where she addressed handwriting, attention, motor, and visual perception skills through play and interest based practices. She enjoys building relationships of reciprocal teaching experiences which provides opportunities to explore new and unknown talents and interests for herself and her clients. When she is not hyper-focused on occupational therapy subjects, she enjoys camping and playing with her spouse, two children, and two dogs.
As a diagnosed adult with ADHD, Angela has experienced the intense struggle between doing what she wants and doing what her nervous system needs. She brings a special awareness and insight to programs development at the Neurodiversity Clinic.
Alice Pugh (she/her) is an Occupational Therapist with a background in community-based therapy with LGBTQ+ and refugee communities, as well as pediatric experience in sensory clinics and school systems.
She supports each of our clients in any and all occupations that bring them joy and independence. Alice works through a Neurodiversity affirming and Trauma-informed lens to help clients engage in everything they need and want to do.
Alice Pugh
Team Clinician
OTR/L
Jan Cendese
Clinical Oversight
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LMT, APP, CCP
Jan is a licensed clinical social worker with over 37 years’ experience. She is highly skilled in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, EMDR, Transpersonal Therapy, Guided Imagery, Gestalt Therapy and Existential Psychotherapy. Her unique ability to bridge the traditional scientific healing model with alternative methods allows her to synthesize multiple methodologies in her approach for each client. Jan gives the Neurodiversity Clinic years of experience and is a highly valued member of the multidisciplinary team.
Jessie received her bachelors degree in Athletic Training from BYU in 2014 and started working in the Sports medicine field in chiropractic offices, children’s sports and surgical offices.
In 2018, she began working with world-leading concussion experts, learning cutting edge techniques to treat even the most difficult concussion cases. She spent 5 years successfully helping thousands of patients recover from concussions.
Jessie has experience creating advanced concussion recovery programs for both acute and long-standing Post Concussion Syndrome (PCS) cases of even decades long.
Jessie recently joined the crew in 2023 and is excited about the work she is doing to help patients recover from debilitating head injuries. She has lived in Texas, Utah, and Paraguay and speaks fluent Spanish. Right now she lives in Herriman, Utah with her husband, 2 crazy boys and 3 rowdy dogs. In her spare time she loves reading all different genres of books and spending time in our beautiful state exploring everything it has to offer.
Jessie Cook
ATC, Concussion Expert
Jordan Jackson
Team Coach, Financial Advisor
Jordan Jackson is an experienced financial authenticity coach with over 5 years of experience in the retail banking and consumer finance industry. Throughout his professional career Jordan has gained a deep understanding of consumer credit, home equity loans, HSA and IRA accounts, credit scores, consumer and small business banking, and more.
Jordan is also an ACA Coach Academies Certified Life Coach and member of the International Coaching Federation, the gold-standard in coaching. He is currently working towards an Associate Certified Coaching credential through the International Coaching Federation and loves how coaching can be a powerful catalyst for change in people's lives.
Jordan helps Neurodiversity Clinic clients paint a clearer picture of their economic situation, create goals, and integrate financial strategies towards creating power in their lives.