Meet Jennifer Perkins

“Heal yourself and then change the world. This is and will always be my why.”

— Jennifer Perkins

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General Information

Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Relationship & Family Therapist

Days: T, W, Th, F

Cost: $250 (No Medicare)

Provider number for: BUPA, Medibank, AHM. Check with your insurance to make sure you are covered for COUNSELLING

Adult individuals
Counselling and psychology students
Queer identities
Clinical Supervision

Anxiety, Trauma, Family Violence, Transitions, Meditation, Grief & Loss, Positive Psychology, Spiritual and Transpersonal Psychology, EMDR, Family Therapy, Relationship Therapy, Job Stress/ Burn Out, Self Image/ Self Esteem.

Style of Therapy

Humourous, Bottom Line, Feminist, Trauma informed, Social Justice informed, Holistic, Queer Centered, Trans Affirming, Body Positive.

Modalities: Psychodynamic, IFS Informed, Systemic & Relationship Focused, Compassion Focused, Mindfulness, Narrative, EMDR + Flash, EFT (tapping)

Things You & Jennifer Might Address:

Relationship breakups and other life transitions. Self care and positive coping skills. Visibility in relationships or work. Vicarious truamatazation or secondary truamatazation. Building self image, self esteem. Shame, and other difficult stories. Sexual abuse or family violence. Trauma and PTSD symptoms.

Coming out to (or inviting in) family or work. Family acceptance for our queer and trans kids. Working with partners of transgender folks.

Visualization and meditation & addressing limiting beliefs. Difficult relationships of all types including with partners, food, alcohol or sex.

Self harm and other difficult coping skills. Sobriety maintenance

Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Relationship Counsellor

Jennifer is a psychodynamic therapist, helping you work with identity, transitions, difficult narratives and limiting beliefs. She is a relationship therapist with belief and passion, helping you find supportive, nurturing and healthy relationships. She works from a holistic wellness model affirming your personal authority in healing yourself. She is a social justice advocate, gender affirming, and passionate about helping the community.

Jennifer is trauma informed and as an EMDR Certified Practitioner, specifically trained in trauma work. Jennifer has additional skills working through difficult family dynamics and will help you understand your past in a healing and helpful way. She works with IFS, mindfulness, client centered and narrative approaches.

She believes her most important job is helping you live a life of purpose and joy.

What Jennifer’s About

Jennifer is the primary provider at Jennifer Perkins MFT Counselling & Psychotherapy. She believes strongly if you help people heal from their trauma they can help heal our world.

She’s a San Francisco transplant and seven years in, still learning the Australian language. She is fascinated with ocean life and committed to spending all of her free time at the beach. She was a research scientist in the past and still gets a thrill from mastering difficult concepts. She builds websites for fun and is teaching herself CSS and SEO because challenges keep you young.

Pre-COVID you could find her enjoying house music in large venues. Now you can find her raiding her partners endless music supply and turning the volume to 11 (it only goes up to 10) She hosts dance parties for two on the balcony.

She grew up in Las Vegas and finds swimming in bodies of water without attached hotels disorienting. She runs out of the water during shark sirens.