Jenny Comeau (she/her) is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) and Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) who has been practicing since 2008 as a master’s level
clinician/therapist. She has worked in a variety of mental health inpatient and outpatient settings at BC Children’s hospital including the Neuropsychiatry and Infant Psychiatry, ADHD, and Urgent Assessment clinics in the outpatient department, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emergency (CAPE) and Child Psychiatry.
Jenny’s therapeutic intervention involves calmly working with individuals, couples and families to facilitate goal setting and jointly generate strategies to achieve this. She has a strong understanding of family dynamics. Often she externalizes the problem to help children and families accept certain challenging behaviours and help families explore their own competencies and resiliencies. Jenny has been complimented by her supervisor for her gentle way of interacting with children and her ability to model respectful teen-adult relations. In addition, she has completed level two of in
Emotionally Focused Family therapy with Gail Palmer which is grounded in Dr Sue Johnson’s work. She has also completed level one of Emotion-focused family therapy with Dr Adele Lafrance.
Couples therapy: Family therapy may include intervening with the most stressed dyad which is often the couple. Therefore much of her clinical intervention is through work with the couple. She has completed level one of Gottmans’ couples therapy. During couples work she will explore each of the parent’s family of origin and how this impacts their parenting today. She has supported couples in grief work around miscarriages that have occurred years prior which may be interfering in how they parent now.
Family therapy: She has been a clinical instructor in the Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry, at the University of British Columbia in the family therapy clinic in the outpatient psychiatry department (OPD) where she provided training to psychiatry residents for over a decade. In that role, she taught residents how to tease out Pathologizing Interpersonal Patterns (PIPs) and co-construct new Healing Interpersonal Patterns (HIPs). She has experience training medical students and psychiatry residents to use genograms, and circular questions including, interpersonal perception questions, triadic questions, difference questions, and behavioral effect
questions.
Jenny believes family work is really effective at creating more peace in your home. She truly passionate about her work with families. She believes in a families and individuals capacity for change. She strives to create safety for everyone in the therapeutic process.
Types of families I see:
Modalities I have training in:
Qualifications:
Registered Social Worker with the BC College of Social Workers (#09776).
Registered Clinical Counsellor (#6082)
Fees:
Jennifer offers an initial 15 minute phone consultation session free of charge.
$160 for 50 minutes – individual (in person or online)
$200 for 50 minutes – couples or family session (in person or online)
Payment for services is only be made as an e-transfer.
Cancellation:
When cancelling 2 days notice is required to cancel a scheduled appointment to avoid being charged the full session fee. If you need to cancel your appointment you can cancel by sending an email to comeautherapy@gmail.com.
Coverage:
Some third party payment plans such as Extended Health Care Insurance and Employee/Family Assistance Programs pay partial or total coverage for counseling services. Please follow up with your benefits plan/health care provider.
Contact:
You can contact Jenny directly at comeautherapy@gmail.com to schedule a free 15 minute consultation. You are also welcome to contact Jenny through the Three Story Clinic reception by email at admin@threestoryclinic.com .
clinician/therapist. She has worked in a variety of mental health inpatient and outpatient settings at BC Children’s hospital including the Neuropsychiatry and Infant Psychiatry, ADHD, and Urgent Assessment clinics in the outpatient department, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emergency (CAPE) and Child Psychiatry.
Jenny’s therapeutic intervention involves calmly working with individuals, couples and families to facilitate goal setting and jointly generate strategies to achieve this. She has a strong understanding of family dynamics. Often she externalizes the problem to help children and families accept certain challenging behaviours and help families explore their own competencies and resiliencies. Jenny has been complimented by her supervisor for her gentle way of interacting with children and her ability to model respectful teen-adult relations. In addition, she has completed level two of in
Emotionally Focused Family therapy with Gail Palmer which is grounded in Dr Sue Johnson’s work. She has also completed level one of Emotion-focused family therapy with Dr Adele Lafrance.
Couples therapy: Family therapy may include intervening with the most stressed dyad which is often the couple. Therefore much of her clinical intervention is through work with the couple. She has completed level one of Gottmans’ couples therapy. During couples work she will explore each of the parent’s family of origin and how this impacts their parenting today. She has supported couples in grief work around miscarriages that have occurred years prior which may be interfering in how they parent now.
Family therapy: She has been a clinical instructor in the Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry, at the University of British Columbia in the family therapy clinic in the outpatient psychiatry department (OPD) where she provided training to psychiatry residents for over a decade. In that role, she taught residents how to tease out Pathologizing Interpersonal Patterns (PIPs) and co-construct new Healing Interpersonal Patterns (HIPs). She has experience training medical students and psychiatry residents to use genograms, and circular questions including, interpersonal perception questions, triadic questions, difference questions, and behavioral effect
questions.
Jenny believes family work is really effective at creating more peace in your home. She truly passionate about her work with families. She believes in a families and individuals capacity for change. She strives to create safety for everyone in the therapeutic process.
Types of families I see:
- parent/teen conflict
- conflict between parents
- helping parents get on the same page
- big changes in the family life cycle such as new baby, new diagnosis, kids going away to school
- family of origin work to explore how it impacts your parenting today
- caregiver burnout
Modalities I have training in:
- family systems (Intensive year long internship with Dr Karl Tomm - Calgary family therapy centre - patterns)
- structural family therapy
- narrative
- Gottman's couples
- solution focused
- strength's based
- CBT
- DBT
- Emotion focused family therapy (Dr Lafrance)
- Emotionally focused family (Dr Johnson)
Qualifications:
Registered Social Worker with the BC College of Social Workers (#09776).
Registered Clinical Counsellor (#6082)
- Master of Social Work (MSW) - University of Calgary
- Bachelor of Social Work University of Victoria (BSW)
- Bachelor of Sociology University of Victoria (BA)
Fees:
Jennifer offers an initial 15 minute phone consultation session free of charge.
$160 for 50 minutes – individual (in person or online)
$200 for 50 minutes – couples or family session (in person or online)
Payment for services is only be made as an e-transfer.
Cancellation:
When cancelling 2 days notice is required to cancel a scheduled appointment to avoid being charged the full session fee. If you need to cancel your appointment you can cancel by sending an email to comeautherapy@gmail.com.
Coverage:
Some third party payment plans such as Extended Health Care Insurance and Employee/Family Assistance Programs pay partial or total coverage for counseling services. Please follow up with your benefits plan/health care provider.
Contact:
You can contact Jenny directly at comeautherapy@gmail.com to schedule a free 15 minute consultation. You are also welcome to contact Jenny through the Three Story Clinic reception by email at admin@threestoryclinic.com .