Jennifer Johannson

Registered Social Worker & Clinical Therapist

Everyone deserves the opportunity to feel heard, understood and supported in making the changes they want in their lives.  Jennifer aims to create a safe, welcoming non-judgmental environment for you to explore what you are going through. As a counselor, Jennifer’s passion is to help you live a fulfilling and balanced life.  Her style is rationale, direct, integrative and practical.

Throughout Jennifer’s clinical training, she has helped people of all ages with various issues. If you struggle with emotion regulation, relationship issues, communication, anxiety, depression, boundary setting, life transitions, and more, she would like to support you in making meaningful changes. Together she will build on to your current strengths and abilities, work towards changing patterns, and take steps towards the life you want to live.

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About Jennifer

Jennifer was born and raised in Calgary, moving in her early 20’s to raise her family in a small BC town. Jennifer has worked primarily in non-profit social sectors, primarily working with youth and families to maintain healthy relationships, reunification where possible, and to maintain familial ties when safe to do so. Jennifer loves to travel and finds water to be very healing, so in the summers you can find her enjoying nearby lakes on her paddle board when she has free time.

Education

Training & Certification

  • Master of Clinical Social Work, University of British Columbia
  • Bachelor of Social Work, University of Calgary
  • Suicide Prevention, Risk Assessment & Management
  • Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
  • Signs of Safety with Andrew Turnell
  • Signs of Safety Boot Camp
  • From Wound to Wellness: Community Wellness & Healing Workshop
  • Understanding Behaviour Through a Trauma Perspective Workshop
  • Child and Youth Mental Health Trauma Informed Training
  • Partnerships Project FASD Facilitator Train the Trainer
  • Traditional (Indigenous) Family Parenting Train the Trainer
  • Solutions Focused Practices: refining the Art
  • Psychological First Aid for Indigenous Communities

Specialties / Special Focus

Counselling therapy for individuals, adults and youth

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Trauma
  • Grief
  • Addiction
  • Peer Relationships
  • Stress
  • ADHD

Treatment Techniques:

  • CBT
  • Strength based
  • Solution focused Brief Therapy
  • Trauma Informed
  • Motivational and Mindfulness