Being

Vegan in a

Not-Yet-Vegan

World

Contact Jen,

A Vegan Counsellor

Jen has been vegan since 2007 and is a qualified and experienced counsellor and works with children, young people and adults. As a vegan, she has personal experience of the unique experiences and challenges of our not-yet-vegan world. Jen has worked with vegan clients who have found that society’s normative, carnist, anti-vegan attitudes, stigma and negative stereotypes can perpetuate anti-vegan bullying and oppression.

Jen is passionate about supporting vegans to overcome both their personal difficulties and those they face as vegans in a not-yet-vegan world, which compounds any personal challenges; society’s hostility to Veganism as an ethical way of life and value system can produce suffering and disempowerment. Veganism is about kindness, love and compassion to all and yet we vegans often carry the weight of society’s shame and blame for the atrocities that occur within the unsustainable, industrialised meat and diary food system.

Jen specialises in providing counselling for vegan-related trauma, vegan-bullying and oppression, Climate-related distress and Eco-Anxiety.

Vegan Therapy & Counselling: “A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world.”

  • Choosing Kindness

    Being Vegan you have chosen kindness to other beings. You get how important it is to choose not to harm others. And yet, it can be really difficult to be kind in a Not-Yet-Vegan world and often we vegans are verbally attacked or bullied for our choices. It take a really gentle and compassionate person to stand my their values in such an oppressive and abusive culture. As a Vegan Counsellor, I get it. Shockingly, I have heard of many instances where non-vegan counsellors have made their vegan clients feel worse, because they simply don’t get it. Or worse, they see veganism as the problem.

  • Nurture Resilience

    Through counselling and many other forms of self-care including connecting with other vegans, we can nurture resilience within ourselves. As social beings, it is so important we find connection with ourselves and each other in a way that is in line with our values and it sustainable. Nurturing our capacity for healthy relationships through therapy with a vegan counsellor who shared this value system can help.

  • Using Your Voice

    Speaking your truth is empowering. This might start by journalling or finding a counsellor you can trust. As Vegans our voices matter, even more so as many of us feel strongly about how those who have no voice and how other humans, and our food system, allows them to be harmed. Being able to express your thoughts and feelings about these hidden yet everyday painful process is vital to healing the trauma and inwardly turned anger, to then using that awareness and compassion to affect change.