Jenni Evans (she/her)

Master of Social Work, Registered Social Worker

I am Jenni Evans (she/her). I am a queer, cisgender settler passionate about conflict resolution and holistic mental and emotional health. I am currently developing a therapeutic practice aimed at supporting individuals, couples, polycules, roommates, families, and chosen families as they navigate the challenges of relationships, being in community, survival under capitalism, and the quest for meaning in their lives.

I practice with a critical lens, which means I practice in a way that acknowledges and validates the systemic challenges (all of the “isms”) people face while struggling to improve their emotional, mental, financial, and spiritual lives. With this in mind, my goal is to help you unpack your feelings, develop a deeper understanding of yourself and your relationships, strengthen your felt agency to make desired changes, all while validating and addressing the very real barriers you may face in this work and in the world. Healing while living with ongoing oppressions is complex. My practice is also relational, which means I focus on the relationships in our lives that are important to us as critical aspects of our learning, felt safety, and development.

I collaborate with people to understand the nature of peace, power, and conflict within their relationships and how we can work to bring more compassion, honesty, and felt safety into our conversations and ourselves during conflict. I work with a trauma-informed lens and a deep commitment to non-judgment. I have lived experience with poverty, chronic pain/illness and periodic disability, single parenting and co-parenting as well as supporting loved ones through addictions and mental health issues. I am happy to meet you wherever you are at and hear whatever it is that needs to be heard.

In addition to psychotherapy services, I am available for consultations and conflict resolution services for those struggling to find peace in their living environment, families or polycules. Under the current economic circumstances, many of us are forced to live in situations and with others we may find challenging. I can help you as an individual, dyad or group to clarify your shared values and goals and create workable agreements, as well as facilitate dialogue to help clear long-standing conflict and restore the heart of the relationship.

In my spare time, I enjoy being cozy with my daughter, my partner, and our cats. I also enjoy frolicking in the forest, drawing, crocheting, listening to records, debating political theories, and engaging in advocacy work, watching Fantasy and Sci-Fi movies, and attending the weirdest art and music events I can find. 

Client Populations Seen: Adults