Meet the Counsellor
Jen Reddish is a Registered Master Therapeutic Counsellor with more than 15 years of experience in the field. Specializing in supporting women throughout the perinatal period and various stages of motherhood, she focuses on addressing developmental trauma and guiding women to uncover the root causes of their triggers. Through compassionate support, she helps clients move beyond temporary coping mechanisms, empowering them to achieve deep, lasting healing.
Jen’s approach is integrative and intuitive, blending Polyvagal Theory, nervous system regulation, Somatic Experiencing (SE), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and many other modalities, including energy work, to support healing on multiple levels. In her IFS practice, she works with clients to explore and heal their inner child and other parts, fostering self-compassion, understanding, and integration. This approach helps clients navigate past wounds and create a more harmonious internal system.
She is also a certified forest therapy practitioner, deeply connected to the healing power of nature. She loves the forest and incorporates nature-based therapy into her practice, offering clients a unique opportunity to reconnect with themselves in a grounded, embodied way.
Her work is deeply informed by nervous system support and regulation, helping clients shift from survival-based responses to a state of safety, connection, and empowerment. She believes that healing comes from deepening one’s connection to the body, emotions, and inner wisdom, and she provides tools to help clients co-regulate, self-regulate, and build resilience in their daily lives.
Passionate about helping women connect to their intuition and authentic selves, Jen offers a range of therapeutic experiences, from 1:1 counselling and group therapy retreats to forest therapy sessions and energy work, all designed to foster self-awareness, nervous system balance, and lasting transformation.
"My goal is to help clients reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, fostering a deeper awareness of and resolution to the root causes of their current challenges, and supporting them in moving forward with clarity and healing."
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 Reddish is a Registered Master Therapeutic Counsellor with over 15 years of experience in the field. She holds a degree in Social Science specializing in Counselling and later completed a Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy to add more value to her work with her clients when they are feeling stuck, and to help access what may be in the subconscious. Additionally, Jen is a certified forest therapy practitioner, deeply connected to the healing power of nature, and incorporates nature-based therapy into her sessions to help clients reconnect with themselves in a grounded and embodied way.
Jen has also taken training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE), Polyvagal Theory, and many other modalities, and she continues with ongoing clinical training each year in various therapeutic modalities to continue growing her expertise.
Her approach is client-centred, gravitating towards modalities that support clients in increasing body awareness, connecting to their emotions, and developing a deeper understanding of their authentic selves. Through IFS, she works with clients to explore and heal their inner child and triggered parts of themselves, fostering self-compassion, integration, and lasting change. Jen also integrates energy work to intuitively support overall well-being and trauma healing.
Jen’s career began in 2010 in intensive inpatient environments, where she worked in both individual and group therapy settings, gaining invaluable experience with individuals facing a wide range of mental health challenges alongside trauma, addictions and eating disorders. Working alongside many mental health professionals in treatment centres, Jen was trained in multiple styles of counselling and psychotherapy, enriching her current practice with a diverse set of tools and philosophies.
Jen is passionate about helping women reconnect with their intuition and authentic selves, empowering them to move through life’s challenges with resilience and clarity.
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
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 Jen’s Offerings:
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