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Jenn has a Master’s Degree in Social Work (UBC), a Bachelor’s Degree in Child and Youth Care (UVic). She is a Registered Social Worker and Registered Clinical Counsellor. Jenn provides counselling services for children, youth, and adults.
Jenn places great focus on creating a warm, gentle, and welcoming counselling environment in which clients feel safe, valued, and accepted for who they are. She respects individuals as experts in their own lives, experiences, and treatment goals.

As a social worker and counsellor, Jenn places importance on the ways in which social and environmental factors (ie: family dynamics, culture, socio-political context) affect the experience and well being of individuals. Her therapeutic approach is tailored to the needs, goals, and values of each client. Her most commonly used modalities are Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), with a strong foundation in trauma-informed and strengths-based practice. Jenn also possesses extensive knowledge of child and youth development and offers expressive play therapy for her elementary school-aged clients.

Jenn is a generalist clinician, offering support to those experiencing challenges such as anxiety, depression, relational violence or emotional abuse, discrimination, and life transitions. Additionally, she has extensive experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, as well as those living with chronic health concerns.

Passionate about offering decolonized mental health supports, Jenn welcomes opportunities to co-create safe and meaningful healing environments with First Nations, Metis, and Inuit individuals and families. She offers culturally safe services for refugees, immigrants, and people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. She has completed a certificate in Sany’as Indigenous Cultural Safety Training and is an approved mental health care provider with the First Nations Health Authority.