Jenny is a Counselling Psychologist, a mindfulness based stress reduction teacher and an executive coach with over 20 years’ experience as a clinical practitioner across educational settings and in private practice. She brings compassion, warmth, honesty, kindness, courage, reliability and conscientiousness to her work which is grounded in a deep respect for the client-counsellor relationship.
Jenny has extensive experience working with young people and adults with: managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma, relationship and family issues, attentional issues such as ADHD, procrastination, perfectionism, anger management, motivation and performance anxiety. She is also experienced in working with the neuro-divergent population.
Jenny has worked as a psychologist / clinician with Headspace, providing clinical services to young people aged 12–25 years and their families. Jenny has also tutored the medical students at Monash University in mindfulness and other health-related behaviours.
Most recently Jenny worked as a counsellor / psychologist at Monash University where she provided counselling support to students and staff on a broad range of workplace and personal issues and developed and implemented a number of mindfulness-based and coaching programs for both students and staff.
Jenny finds using mindfulness-based approaches as well as CBT particularly effective but is also able to draw on a broad range of other approaches including: ACT, narrative therapy, family therapy and positive psychology to suit the individual needs of the client.
She is a registered provider with Medicare and private health insurers and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) Counselling College.
Read more about Jenny’s work with mindfulness here and an interview with her on our blog here.
