Description
Meet Jenna:
For more than 10 years I have worked with children, parents and families as a therapist and in a variety of other roles with social organizations across Alberta.
I was initially inspired to pursue a career in perinatal mental health while working as an outreach worker with pregnant and parenting teens. That experience convinced me of the urgent need for broader access to quality, affordable services in this area.
Several years, several children, and a Master of Social Work degree later, I serve clients in Alberta as a Registered Social Worker and as Founder & Therapist at Fireweed Counselling. I created this focussed, results-oriented private therapy and parenting support practice to work with my clients through all the joys and challenges related to children.
My Approach
I am client-centred. This means I focus on your strengths and self-knowledge as we work together in a safe and non-judgmental space.
My therapeutic approach is flexible to respond to your unique context and preferences and I have experience working with the following approaches:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Mindfulness
Solution-focussed Brief Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Each of these approaches can be effective in treating a wide range of problems, such as depression, anxiety disorders, marital problems, obsessive-compulsive disorder, perfectionism, and stress reduction.
Together we will develop an understanding of the problem, identify your goals, and develop a plan to get you to where you want to be.
In addition to completing exercises in our sessions, I will also assign "homework" that will help you to practice new skills, track changes, and practice self-care and compassion.
Sample Therapy:
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
This popular psychological treatment is demonstrated by scientific evidence to produce change. CBT emphasizes helping individuals learn to be their own therapists and is based on several principles:
Thinking:
Psychological problems are based, in part, on faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking.
Behaviour:
Psychological problems are based, in part, on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior.
Coping:
People suffering from psychological problems can learn better ways of coping with them, thereby relieving their symptoms and becoming more effective in their lives.
Why online therapy with Fireweed Counselling?
Effective:
Online therapy for depression and anxiety disorders is as effective as traditional, in-person therapy (source).
Convenient:
Skip the commute, family scheduling headaches, and awkward waiting room. Join your session on your phone, tablet, or desktop from wherever is convenient for you.
Secure:
Fireweed Counselling ensures your privacy and confidentiality through encrypted communications and best-practice data storage and access protocols.
Affordable & High-Quality:
You will receive high-quality care from a trained, regulated mental health professional AND save money thanks to reduced operating costs of my online therapy model. My regular session fee is 30% less than the Psychologists` Association of Alberta`s recommended fee.
Specialties:
Perinatal mood disorders (e.g. anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder)
Family planning, fertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology
Pregnancy & pregnancy loss
Body image & self esteem
Birth & postpartum adjustment
Post-birth marital/relationship adjustment
Sibling adjustment after birth & separation anxiety
General child behaviour support
Adoption, foster & kinship support
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