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
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.
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.
Upcoming Events:
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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
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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!
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.
Let’s go a little deeper
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.
