Jennifer Halvaksz

Our Director of Struggle Well, Jennifer Halvaksz, is passionate about transforming how people learn to thrive.

Jennifer brings 25+ years of physical therapy practice as a clinician, educator, and researcher. In addition to providing direct patient care, she has been a physical therapist educator at the graduate level since 2004 with faculty appointments at the University of Southern California and The George Washington University. She loves being an educator and has served as Director of Clinical Education at the GW DPT program, direct program coursework related to musculoskeletal/orthopedic physical therapy practice, as well as serving as Co-Founder and Academic Co-Director of the postgraduate Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency Program conducted in partnership with Johns Hopkins Hospital.  At GW Jennifer also spearheaded university-wide endeavors to improve inter-professional health care practice.

Jennifer earned recognition as an outstanding educator at program and university levels and continues to help move the science of learning forward by presenting nationally on teaching and learning in physical therapy education and mentoring clinicians and educators in health professions.

Jennifer is a lifelong learner with degrees from the University of Southern California (Doctor of Physical Therapy), and Duquesne University (Master of Physical Therapy and Bachelor of Science).  She is also a graduate of the “Master Teacher and Leadership Development Fellowship Program” at The George Washington University, and is currently enrolled in the MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) Teacher Training Certificate Program (Brown University), learning how to use mindfulness-based interventions to improve experiences with pain and movement challenges.

Jennifer is excited to bring her skills and passion to serve Boulder Crest’s mission to transform how mental health is delivered for our nation’s veterans and first responder communities.