Jennifer is the founder of Psychotherapy Central, President of the International Energetic Healing Association and co-founder of the Golden Woman Centre. She is a certified psychotherapist, counsellor and energetic healer, but you can think of her as a huge self-love advocate, a listening ear, and a holder of space for transformation and healing. She specialises in attachment issues, trauma, and anxiety resolution.
Jennifer uses a unique combination of Western psychotherapy and Eastern energy management tools to effect powerful, lasting change in her clients. Jennifer ran the biggest energetic healing training program in Australia and has been in private practice for over 15 years. She runs personal development seminars and leads regular international transformational retreats. She has been happily married for 14 years and has two beautiful children.
Author: Jennifer
Deep Attunement for Trauma
THIS IS THE WORK. As a therapist, it is my job to be deeply attuned to my clients, notice when they are becoming distressed, and assist them in returning to their window of tolerance. I like to think of it …
Trauma & Secure Attachment
When we experience trauma as a child, and our mother (or primary caregiver) is not attuned to our needs, this is attachment trauma. 50% of the population have an insecure attachment style. This means the mother was not available in …
Integrating Traumatic Experiences
When we have experienced trauma and start to have some of the symptoms of PTSD; flashbacks, increased heart rate, numbness, dissociation etc., we are experiencing fragmented thought processes, emotional responses and bodily sensations. These correspond to three areas of the …
1 in 3 Black Male Americans Will Go To Jail
Systemic trauma is practices and policies of institutions that cause psychological, economic, spiritual, or physical harm to specific groups of people. It maintains inequality, marginalisation, and the oppression of certain groups through excluding these groups from opportunities, access to meaningful …
The Top-Down Approach to Healing
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The Bottom-Up Approach To Trauma
Bottom-up approaches are more somatically, body-based interventions to working with trauma. They work to resolve the imprint of trauma on the body through the limbic system, the feeling centre of the brain. As we connect with the body, the body …
Does Loneliness Lead to Depression?
I love to see the research! This was Cacioppo’s question in the early 2000s. In one of many studies, he took 135 lonely people, divided them into groups A and B, and asked them to complete an in-depth personality test. …
10 Ways the Fawn Response Shows Up in Relationships
The fawn response is a trauma response. It is a protective reaction to an unsafe situation, usually in our childhood. As adults, the fawn response shows up in relationships in different ways: I’ll say anything to keep the peace. I …
Trauma and Staying Connected
When we have experienced trauma, there might be an impulse to push people away, to feel shame around the trauma. To feel as though “I should be stronger than this”, or “why is this still affecting me? What is wrong …
When To Get Help For Trauma
The typical trauma symptoms will start to fade after about four weeks for some people, and for others, they will continue and even worsen. It is beneficial to have a list of things to look out for regarding trauma. If …