Meet the Counsellor
Jen has been working as a counsellor since 2010, and created her counselling practice in the fall of 2016, shortly after becoming a mother. Jen has always been passionate about counselling and loves supporting women to connect to their intuition and authentic selves. Jen has an integrative counselling approach and believes that connecting to your body and emotions is key to moving through challenges in your life.
“My goal is to help my clients connect to their emotions and gain a deeper awareness of the root causes of their current emotional issues to help them in moving forward.”
When it suits the needs of her clients, Jen uses expressive arts therapy in her sessions. Working creatively in therapy helps you to connect to your body, enabling you to access thoughts and feelings that are normally blocked by your conscious mind.
Jen has a gentle, yet direct approach and adapts her style to the needs of her clients in order to best suit each individual.
BACKGROUND, EDUCATION, & TRAINING
Jen studied in Australia obtaining her degree in Social Science specializing in Counselling, and later completed a Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy in Alberta. Jen goes through additional clinical training every year in various modalities to be able to continue growing her abilities as a therapist. Jen has a client-centred approach and has a preference towards therapeutic modalities that support her clients to increase their body awareness to connect to their emotions and develop their awareness of their authentic sense of self.
Jen began her career working in intensive inpatient environments doing both Individual and Group therapy in 2010, where she had the opportunity to work with people experiencing a wide variety of issues. Working in treatment centres for so much of her career also gave Jen the opportunity to learn from many different mental health professionals, who trained her in multiple styles of counselling and psychotherapy - enabling her to have a wide range of skills and philosophies to pull from into her current practice.
Areas of Experience
Pre-Natal & Post Partum Issues, including birth preparation, birth processing, grief and loss, post-partum anxiety, post-partum depression
Anxiety, Depression, other mood & personality disorders
Eating disorders & Body Image
Addictions
Family of Origin Issues
Trauma
Crisis
Grief and loss
Relationships
Co-dependency
Abuse
Sexual exploitation
Areas of Specialization
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Emotionally prepare for your birth & arrival of your new baby, identify your goals for your birth. Explore changes you've encountered during your pregnancy and anticipated changes for once baby arrives.
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Share, process and heal from your birth experience, to be able to move forward and build a healthy relationship with yourself & your family. Processing past birth experiences is a very important piece of getting ready for another pregnancy or birth.
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Focus on your needs, connect with your emotions, and process the changes you've gone through in your journey as a mother.
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Address the underlying issues of your body dissatisfaction.
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Support for women who've experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and other losses in their lives.
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Explore your relationship with yourself, connect to your inner self & intuition, address root issues of low self-esteem
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Explore how anxiety/depression is impacting your life, identify root causes, build tools and coping strategies.
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Learn how to detach from other people, set healthy boundaries and become more fulfilled from within.
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Identify current struggles that are connected to your past family of origin issues - work on resolving these to have a healthier relationship with yourself and others.
View upcoming Group Workshops and Self Paced Online Workshops
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Jen will be accepting New Clients In February 2023. Click here to get on the waiting list.
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