Supporting you to empower yourself through the transitional phases of motherhood.

Get accessible and personalized mental healthcare in-person or from the comfort of your home.

How we can work together

SELF PACED WORKSHOPS

Jen also provides private workshops and women’s circles upon request. She most often gets contact to hold salt bowl ceremonies for private groups and the workshops she holds for private groups most often are Coping with Anger & Rage in Motherhood and Resiliency for Birthworkers. For more details, click here.

WOMENS CIRCLES, WORKSHOPS & RETREATS

INDIVIDUAL & GROUP THERAPY

Jen is deeply passionate about fostering intentional connection and healing among women, whether through women's circles, workshops, or group therapy. In these safe spaces, women can release feelings of isolation and dissolve shame while experiencing true presence - feeling seen, heard, and understood.

Featured Event:

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Roots to Wings: Group Therapy Retreat Healing Your Inner Child & Embracing Authenticity
Apr 4
Roots to Wings: Group Therapy Retreat Healing Your Inner Child & Embracing Authenticity

The intensive group therapy weekend retreat will give you an opportunity to go deeper into your journey of healing with a primary focus on deep self-connection. You will be gentle guided and supported to increase your self-awareness, foster courage, confidence and growth, create healthier relationships with all parts of yourself, with people in your life and understand how to manage your emotions effectively.

You will be supported to deeply explore the root cause of current issues to help you make long-term changes, stop repeating patterns that hold you back and you will be guided through experiential activities that will support you in breaking free from the cycle of shame to be able to live more authentically.

Upcoming Events:

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Mom-Guilt [Online Workshop]
Mar 12
Mom-Guilt [Online Workshop]
The Listening Room - Women’s Circle
Mar 13
The Listening Room - Women’s Circle
Re-Connecting to Your Intuition [Online Workshop]
Apr 2
Re-Connecting to Your Intuition [Online Workshop]
Roots to Wings: Group Therapy Retreat Healing Your Inner Child & Embracing Authenticity
Apr 4
Roots to Wings: Group Therapy Retreat Healing Your Inner Child & Embracing Authenticity
The Listening Room - Women’s Circle
Apr 12
The Listening Room - Women’s Circle
Healing for Healers & Space Holders - A Wellness Retreat for Women
May 22
Healing for Healers & Space Holders - A Wellness Retreat for Women
The Listening Room - Women’s Circle
May 27
The Listening Room - Women’s Circle
Embodied Self Connection - Day Retreat for Women
Oct 18
Embodied Self Connection - Day Retreat for Women

Your individual lives have their own pace and rhythm, at times it can be difficult to find a Workshop that fits your schedule, this is why Jen created a library of Self Paced Workshops that can be completed at home, online, whenever it best fits your routine.

Topics Include

  • Releasing Anxiety & Finding Your Calm

  • Body Image & Self Esteem

  • Grounding

  • Resiliency for Birth Workers: Managing Burnout, Anger & Powerlessness

  • Overcoming Burnout in Motherhood

…and more!

If you would like to view the library you can head over here. Or check out the most popular Workshops below.

Featured Self Paced Online Workshops

  • Reclaiming Your Identity and Releasing Guilt in Motherhood

    In this workshop, you can expect a variety of psycho-education, reflective questions inspired from a range of therapeutic modalities, and art therapy exercises all put together to support you to expand your self-awareness and create a deeper connection to your sense of self while you to begin letting go of toxic guilt that stops you from being who you are.

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  • Coping with Anger and Rage in Motherhood

    In this 3 part series you will learn to understand why your feelings of anger are valid useful, important, and necessary, identify when feelings of anger & rage are starting to build up, use your power to make choices when it feels like things are out of your control, understand how functional boundary setting allows you to access your own power while releasing unnecessary feelings of guilt, resentment, and rage.

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  • Overcoming Burnout in Motherhood

    Are you feeling burned out, overwhelmed, exhausted? Struggling to care for yourself while caring for others? Being a mother is an extremely demanding role and it is so important to learn creative and practical strategies to support you with overcoming and preventing feelings of burnout. Sign up for this workshop to learn the signs and symptoms of burnout, how to recognize when these feelings are building up, how to prevent burnout from happening in the first place, PLUS an 8-Step Guide to Overcoming & Preventing Burnout!

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  • Grounding Workshop

    This Grounding Workshop encompasses important aspects from our workshops on managing emotions (Anger, RAGE, Guilt, Anxiety!) and Jen will lead you through the necessary steps to START managing your emotions with more ease through the art of grounding & regulating your nervous system. One of the focuses of this workshop is to learn how to access these grounding skills in the moment and make necessary changes in your life to enable you to start implementing the grounding strategies that you already know + the new grounding skills that you learn in this session!

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Meet Your Counsellor

Jen Reddish, RTC, MTC

Jen Reddish is a Registered Master Therapeutic Counsellor and the owner at The Essence of You. Jen offers counselling and workshops both in-person in the Calgary area and online via video calls. Jen's current area of focus is on Motherhood, Peri-Natal Mental Health, Birth Preparation, Birth Processing, and Body Image. Her background is in trauma, addictions and eating disorders.

Jen is gentle and direct and adapts her style to the needs of her clients in order to best suit each individual. She will support you to connect to your intuition and the essence of who you are, while exploring the root causes of your issues to help you address challenges in your life.

With an integrative counselling approach, Jen’s goal is to help her 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. Jen believes that connecting to your body and emotions is key to moving through challenges in your life.

Monthly Group Therapy Series

Empowering Yourself Through Motherhood

February 2023 - May 2023

Registration is now full, please hop on the waitlist for the next series starting in June.

In this online Group Therapy Series you will learn to expand your awareness and feel empowered as you move through the transitional phases of motherhood

Registration opens once every 3 months - this is a limited-participant group session with rotating monthly topics & open invitation to discuss any current issues you are experiencing. Very similar to a 1-1 therapy session but with the added power of the group discussion and feedback.

  • “I was excited to take my sessions deeper by participating in the weekend retreat. It was a small group of women who were able to be present, supportive and honest. It was well structured and obviously put together with thought. Jen is always well-prepared and so passionate about the work that she does that it makes each experience seem incredibly valuable. The best analogy I can offer is that Jen is like a person with a map that seems indecipherable to me but that her trust will lead us in the direction we need to be going. Jen’s trust makes it easier for me to focus on exploring and healing instead of getting lost in the weeds."

    — Andrea T

  • “ Thank you so much for sharing this with me and for your workshop. I have not felt so calm throughout the day in months. I know it was the exercises, and what I learned.”

    — Camden T

  • “Thanks again for a wonderful workshop. I love the interactive part of it. It helps to know that I’m not the only one that struggles with anxiety and I liked the idea of making peace with anxiety instead of constantly fighting against it.”

    — Haley M.

  • “I just wanted to thank you for the anxiety workshop last night. I feel like I got so much from it and I really appreciate all the worksheets that came with it too. I feel like often, for me at least, part of what fuels the anxiety around experiencing anxiety, is not knowing where to start to work through it. After last night’s session, I feel Iike I have the tools to start working with my anxiety to try to understand what it is trying to tell me. ”

    — Stephanie J.

  • “Jen’s Body Image Group was life changing for me.”

    — Anonymous

  • “ Again, thanks so much for everything. I feel like I’ve learned and grown so much in the last few months since I’ve been seeing you. I understand myself better than I have in my whole life. I can finally see why I act and react and feel in certain ways and can finally start being a little more compassionate towards myself, slowly but surely. With your help I am finally able to see that people love and care for me. Not because I’ve put on a good act and hidden the bad person I’ve always thought myself to be, but because they can see through the act and love the good person that I actually am. I can never be grateful enough to you for helping me see that.”

    — Anonymous

  • “I attended a birth preparation art night with Jen while expecting my second child. Jen’s intuition to guide the session and direct us through our own self-inquiry was truly remarkable! Her kindness, ability to draw out truth and create a safe space for this kind of delicate work is a gift. Than you for pursuing this path and sharing your gifts, Jen!”

    — Anonymous

Let’s go a little deeper

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The Power of Story Telling
The Power of Story Telling
5 Reasons Why Women’s Circles Are So Powerful
5 Reasons Why Women’s Circles Are So Powerful
Is it Paralyzing Anxiety… or Healthy Fear?
Is it Paralyzing Anxiety… or Healthy Fear?

Don’t forget that common does not = normal. Anxiety is alerting you to danger, either real or perceived. Are you listening? 

Update & Changes at The Essence of You Counselling
Update & Changes at The Essence of You Counselling

Get started with The Essence of You.

The Essence of You Authenticity Journal

Welcome to your new safe space for self-reflection. This customized journal will support you to increase your self-awareness through compassionate and loving curiosity. It is full of intentional, reflective questions, journaling prompts and inspirational quotes to bring you into connection with your authentic self — the Essence of who you are.