About Jen

Jen worked with Cruse bereavement services as a counsellor in Brighton and Hove and in Kensington and Chelsea. She supported a very diverse range of clients with complex grief, trauma and loss as well as other issues such as depression, anxiety and abuse. She also worked with St. Joseph’s Hospice team in Hackney, London to support clients with bereavement. At CGL (Change Grow Live) Hastings Jen provided counselling for individuals working to reduce substance dependency. Currently she works with The Bower Tree to provide low-cost adult online counselling and children’s counselling in schools.

Jen is also a trained Climate Cafe Facilitator and runs regular support groups in the Brighton and Lewes area on eco-anxiety, eco-distress and climate related emotional difficulties.

Professional Background

Qualifications

Diploma in Counselling NCS Accredited Level 6 at The Link Centre, Sussex 2023

Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy at Metanoia, London 2017

Climate Psychology Alliance Member & Training in Climate awareness and Eco-distress 2023

Taking Therapy Outdoors - with Natural Reflections Ecotherapy, Derbyshire 2023

EcoTherapy Course At Stanmer Ecotherapy Centre 2023

Work That Reconnects - with Cindy Gale in London 2023

Intermediate Remote Counselling Course, BACP 2022

Internal Family Systems, Trauma and Guilt 2019-2023

Fully Insured and Member of BACP and UKATA abide by their code of ethics

Jen worked as a teacher internationally in India and the Middle East before setting up as a private tutor in the UK. She started training in Transactional Analysis to compliment her role in education with coaching and became fascinated by the process of change in and through relationship. Her strong connection with nature through sea swimming, rock climbing and love of animals has drawn her to take her therapy practice outdoors. She has a keen sense of social and ecological responsibility and is taking further study in power, oppression and privilege. She is exploring the intersectionality of gender, age, race, class, climate-crisis and mental health.

Clients’ kind words:

Working with Jen has really helped my gain insight and awareness in my own processes and helped me through on of the most difficult times in my life. Thanks. - Client 2022-2023