Jessi Herr, BSN, BA, RN
Director of Nursing
Jessi was raised in central Tennessee but moved to North Carolina in 1992 to attend Warren Wilson College, where her focus was on plant biology and horticulture. After her graduation, she secured jobs in Asheville at Beanstreets, Salsa’s, and Lark Books. In 1999, she embarked on a road trip that concluded in Seattle, where she resided for five years. During her stay, she got married, welcomed a child into the world, and earned certifications as a postpartum doula and Pilates instructor. Jessi made her way back to North Carolina in 2004 and, by 2005, had opened a small Pilates studio, which she managed until 2018. That same year, she began the accelerated BSN program at Western Carolina University, graduating among the top of her class in 2019.
Jessi was motivated to join The Willows at Red Oak Recovery® due to her personal connections to individuals battling mental health issues and addiction. She is immensely honored and thankful for the opportunity to contribute to the recovery and healing of her clients.
Her hobbies include gardening, hiking, hosting dinner parties, reading, and, recently, playing tennis. She shares her home with her husband, who is an acupuncturist, their therapy dog, Cooper, and a cat named Leo. Her adult son, who has established himself as a blade smith/blacksmith in Weaverville, NC, and her daughter, who has just begun her college journey in Colorado, complete her family.
Jodi Mabry, NP
Nurse Practitioner
Jodi started her nursing career in 2011. After relocating to Western North Carolina (WNC) in 2017 she saw the growing need for providers who specialized in substance abuse and mental health. With this realization she committed to furthering her education. She has been serving the WNC community since 2021 by providing care to those who were embarking on their path to recovery. She has found joy in witnessing the progress that her clients have made and being able to be part of their journey.
Jenny Vera, BSN, BA, RN
Registered Nurse
Jenny comes to The Willows at Red Oak Recovery with a deep dedication to human beings. Led by her desire to expand roots in mental health and recovery, she has been nurturing her understanding of the web of human struggle for the majority of her life. She believes therapeutic interventions provide a variety of tools to help many through their hardships so that no one has to remain feeling stuck.
Jenny knows the value of a team, of collaboration, advocation, and ongoing education and aims to infuse those values into the work she does at The Willows. She brings the scope of a registered nurse and the education of one with training in evidence-based practice. Her main motives are safety, security, and transparency and has a chosen side quest in bringing levity to her encounters through humor where she can.
Her Bachelor of Science in Nursing was attained at the University of North Georgia, her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of South Florida, and she is currently in graduate school working toward a Master of Science in a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program. She spent much of her nursing career working in a catastrophic rehabilitation center in Atlanta for those with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and is thrilled to be working in the healing environment The Willows and the Red Oak community provides. When Jenny is not engaging in a work setting, she tries to engage each day with intentional appreciation, presentness, and gratitude for the winding paths of life. She likes to make friends of strangers and laugh until it hurts. She has a six-year-old emotional support animal named Ziggy Stardust who is always beating her at staring contests. She likes to cook, drive her muscle car around WNC, and do handstands in swimming pools in her free time.
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