Meet Jennifer
Jennifer is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW). She completed her university studies in 2012 and has spent more than 20 years supporting adolescents and adults navigating trauma, mental health challenges, relationship struggles, identity exploration, and the many stressors that life can bring.
Before moving into private practice, Jennifer worked in outpatient mental health services providing individual, family, and group counselling and therapy. Her experience working with both teens and adults has shaped a compassionate, flexible, and deeply human approach to therapy that meets people where they are.
Jennifer believes therapy should feel like a space where you can show up fully as yourself — messy moments, uncertainties, humour, vulnerability, and all.
A Warm, Playful, and Trauma-Informed Approach
Jennifer is passionate about continuing to grow as a therapist and regularly pursues training in different therapeutic modalities and clinical interventions. Her approach is eclectic, trauma-informed, relational, and often infused with warmth, curiosity, and playfulness.
She is deeply inspired by people’s stories and by the moments that help us move toward embracing our authentic selves — our identities, our complexities, and all the colourful parts that make us who we are.
Jennifer often speaks about learning to “dance in the rain.” She believes that even during the most emotionally overwhelming seasons of life, there can still be moments of calm, connection, neutrality, pleasure, humour, or joy worth noticing and nurturing. Therapy can help create space for those moments to exist again.
Inclusive, Affirming, and LGBTQIA+ Positive Care
Jennifer has developed a strong passion for working with individuals in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and is committed to providing affirming, celebratory, and inclusive mental health support. She values diversity and strives to create a therapy environment where clients feel deeply respected, safe, and welcomed exactly as they are.
She also supports clients in polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous relationships, as well as individuals exploring sexual, gender, and relationship diversity, including sex-positive and sex-therapy-informed approaches.
Jennifer is equally committed to supporting friends, partners, and family members who may be navigating relationship challenges within 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Her work is grounded in compassion, openness, and the belief that healing and connection grow best in spaces free from judgment.
Life Beyond the Therapy Room
In her personal life, Jennifer is a bisexual, cisgender woman (she/her) who is part of a loving polyamorous triad. Together, they are cohabitating and co-parenting three amazing kiddos. She describes herself as having the beautiful and sometimes challenging opportunity to be a bonus mom, while navigating family life with humour, compassion, flexibility, and plenty of teamwork.
Their home is also shared with a Shorkie named Wicket and a Russian Blue cat named Pushkin, who both contribute unique personalities to family life.
Friendships and chosen family are deeply important to Jennifer. She believes that family can be built through love, trust, and connection in many different forms. Outside of her work, she enjoys reading, baking, quiet moments to recharge her introvert battery, and wholeheartedly embracing every opportunity to create, play, laugh, and giggle.