Meet the people behind Caritas Counselling

Lead Therapist

Jennifer

My name is Jennifer and I am a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO).

My personal background includes a Master's degree in Theology and a Master's degree in Clinical Counselling. Professionally I have worked in pastoral ministry, as a teacher, in Psychological Services within an Ontario school board, in private practice settings, and as a Clinical Supervisor of Master's-level practicum students.

My goal is to bring my education, professional, and life experience to our work together, in order to help you identify and overcome the barriers that keep you from moving forward toward greater freedom, hope, and authentic joyfulness in life.

At Caritas Counselling, our focus is to use therapeutic approaches that have a strong basis in research and evidence for effectiveness. We take an integrative approach to counselling and psychotherapy, always keeping your unique and individual needs as a client at the forefront, even as we integrate a variety of evidence-based therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Attachment-based work, and EMDR, to name a few.

I specialize in working with developmental trauma — helping people understand the deeper attachment wounds that underlie the ways we think about ourselves. Using EMDR, "Parts Work," and an attachment lens, we begin to identify the deeper wounds that lie beneath the surface. Sometimes those wounds show up as a part of ourselves that got very comfortable caring for the needs of others but never learned it was okay to take care of ourselves too. Hope comes when we bring all of this into the light, and begin to learn — or relearn — how to care for ourselves.

Let's journey together to discover the you that got lost somewhere, and find a new way to move into the future with freedom, hope, energy, and well-being.