Mindfulness Self-Compassion

MSC combines the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion, providing a powerful tool for emotional resilience. Mindfulness is the first step in emotional healing—being able to turn toward and acknowledge our difficult thoughts and feelings (such as inadequacy, sadness, anger, confusion) with a spirit of openness and curiosity. Self-compassion involves responding to these difficult thoughts and feelings with kindness, sympathy and understanding so that we soothe and comfort ourselves when we’re hurting. 

Facilitator

Hi, my name’s Jennifer!

Since childhood, I have had a passion for the evolution of relationships. How they form, grow and sometimes rupture has always been an interest that I have carried through my personal life and professional career. For me, relationships are fundamental to our journey as human beings, whether that be relationships with our friendships, intimate partners, family members or work colleagues. This strong pull towards the understanding of relationships has helped me to guide my practice and help others learn to cherish the ups and downs of our ever-changing interpersonal connections. 

I care deeply about my clients and their growth and personal development as individuals. I work collaboratively with my clients to address the root causes of their struggles and challenges and work to integrate strategies, tools and techniques so they can reach their full potential. 

My clinical areas of practice include a wide area of concerns, including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief/loss, relationships, LGBTQ+, life transitions and personal growth. Through my advanced professional learning, I am trained specifically to help support sexual violence trauma and job-related trauma for first responders. I work with individuals and couples to help open the doors of communications through intimacy and sex therapy. As a lifelong learner, I continue to advance my clinical practice in several specialized counselling fields, including suicide prevention and postvention, on-call crisis response consultant, online sexual harassment and bullying trauma and pandemic wellness.

Who can join?

This is a closed group, meaning that you must register for the first session if you wish to attend any or all sessions - no new registrants will be accepted after the first session. 

People who join this group will learn: 

• how to stop being so hard on yourself 
• how to handle difficult emotions with greater ease 
• how to motivate yourself with encouragement rather than criticism 
• how to transform difficult relationships, both old and new 
• mindfulness and self-compassion practices for home and everyday life 
• the theory and research behind mindful self-compassion 
• how to become your own best teacher 

When and how do we meet?

This group meets online on Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.