Meet Jennifer Hamman
Availability
Accepting new clients for my Waitlist
My priority is to create a safe, non-judgemental space where you feel comfortable exploring the unknown within a supportive relationship. Whether you are on a healing journey, building your tools and coping skills, exploring emotions, or processing trauma, we can work together using a variety of counselling techniques.
As a BC Registered Clinical Counsellor, I use an approach that validates your life experiences, honours you as the expert of your own history, and focuses on your strengths. I centre the counselling process around building a strong, supportive relationship, and I integrate mindfulness techniques to help you navigate challenges. Together, we will explore what type of support best meets your needs and goals to guide our work. Our sessions might include exploring new ways to understand and relate to the past, examining life patterns, uncovering new perspectives and facets of yourself, moving toward daily nourishment, or strengthening your ability to access inner resources.
In addition to more traditional talk therapy, you will also have the option to try Expressive Arts Therapy if it is something you are interested in. Expressive Arts Therapy explores content coming up in sessions by inviting the imagination and the senses into the process. Working in this experiential way can also provide a safe container for accessing difficult emotions or past traumas. No arts experience is required, and simplicity is celebrated in this way of working.
Jennifer’s Training & Education
I have been practicing for the last decade in a variety of settings including a not-for-profit agency specializing in recovery from child and youth sexual abuse, an adult counselling program, a First Nations community, and elementary schools. I hold a Master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapy and Psychology from the European Graduate School, complemented by a B.A. in Psychology.
I am also a registered provider for the Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP), First Nations Health Authority (FNHA), Metis Nation of BC (MNBC), MCFD’s Autism Funding Branch and the SPCA Cruelty Investigatory Team.
Person-Centred
Resource-Oriented
Attachment-Based Therapy
Expressive Arts Therapy
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Somatic-Based (Body) Trauma-Informed Work
Play Therapy
Therapeutic Approaches
Languages
English
Schedule
Tuesday 11:00-7:00 in-person or online
Wednesday 11:00-8:00 in-person or online
Friday 9:30-5:30 in-person or online