Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
My name is Jennifer. I am an experienced registered counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). I have more than 22 years of experience working with individuals, children, youths, couples and families from all walks of life and cultural backgrounds, who have experienced various challenges in their lives. I have worked alongside these clients to bring about healing in the relationship they have with themselves and others.
I enjoy working with people and this love is reflected in my personality and the passion I have in the way I engage with the people I meet. As a relationship counsellor, I have grown to understand that only in finding healing in the relationship with oneself, brings about growth and healing in relationships with others. Being an insightful Counsellor, I believe that the counselling process is not just about empowering clients but it is also about dignifying the client by acknowledging the challenges they face, identifying the strengths they already possess and celebrating their individuality. Being warm and approachable allows my clients to feel safe in a space where they are empowered to find their own voice and path to the challenges they are facing as I journey alongside them. My training and extensive experience in various issues such as family and relationship dynamics, interpersonal issues, grief and loss, family and domestic violence, various forms of trauma, depression, anxiety, parent-teen conflict and migration enables me to empathise with my clients, making them feel heard and understood.
In the area of couples counselling, I provide pre-martial support and, uncoupling. Couples counselling is not only for couples on the verge of separation but also for couples who want to strengthen their relationship. Life experiences often change our world views and values and this sometimes impacts our relationship with our spouse/partner. I am here to support couples to have a deeper understanding on the impact this may have on the relationship and how they can continue to work together to strengthen their relationship. I also provide family counselling, coaching and group work.
Clients are the experts of their lives and my role is to facilitate the journey to help them tap into their inner resources to bring about self-awareness, personal growth and to improve relationships with themselves and others. Therefore, sessions are created to meet the client’s therapeutic needs, incorporating a strength-based, client-centred approach and combining a variety of evidence-based therapeutic modalities and techniques. You could be experiencing a difficult event or finding ways to adjust to big changes in your life, looking for self-development or feeling stuck and want to increase your own self-awareness, but whatever your life challenge may be, I aim to provide you the therapeutic relationship to help you navigate and process the life experience you are facing.
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Jennifer Altheimer is a registered counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA), both professional counselling associations in Australia. She has 18 years of experience working with individuals, children, youths, couples and families from diverse cultural backgrounds and life situations, helping bring healing to relationships with self and others.
Jennifer brings warmth, approachability and clear commitment to her therapeutic work. She emphasises that growth in relationships often begins with healing the relationship a person has with themself – when someone develops greater self-understanding and self-respect, their connections with others frequently improve. Her style recognises the dignity of each person by acknowledging difficulties, highlighting existing strengths and celebrating individuality.
Her training and extensive experience cover family and relationship dynamics, interpersonal issues, grief and loss, family and domestic violence, multiple forms of trauma, depression, anxiety, parent-teen conflict and migration. Jennifer works with relationship and family concerns, parenting, self-esteem, coaching, stress, anxiety, LGBT-related matters, intimacy issues, anger, career concerns, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue.
In couples counselling she provides pre-marital support and uncoupling, and she supports couples who want to strengthen their partnership as well as those navigating separation. She also offers family counselling, coaching and group work.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs, using a strengths-based, client-centred approach and a range of evidence-based modalities and techniques. Jennifer views clients as the experts of their own lives and aims to help them access inner resources, build self-awareness, foster personal growth and improve relationships with themselves and others. Whether someone is adjusting to major change, processing a difficult event, pursuing self-development or feeling stuck, Jennifer seeks to provide a supportive therapeutic relationship as she journeys alongside them. Her practice descriptors include therapist of color, female therapist, gay, non-religious and liberal therapist.
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