Meet Our Practitoners

Counselling

Jennifer Mansell

Owner/Founder, Nourish Wellness and Registered Social Worker

Jennifer is a Registered Social Worker with 25 years of experience working with a wide range of clients.

  • Jennifer is a Registered Social Worker with 25 years of experience working with a wide range of clients. Jennifer supports her clients to connect with their own innate wisdom and sense of agency in their lives. She recognizes the importance of acknowledging the sociocultural factors which impact clients’ experiences.

    Jennifer’s counselling style is eclectic, incorporating her skills and training in post modern approaches (narrative therapy), somatic approaches (Hakomi and yoga therapy), feminist approaches, collaborative family therapy, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), attachment-based parenting, as well as mindfulness-based approaches. She has been heavily influenced by her teachers and mentors both in the fields of counselling and yoga/mindfulness. She incorporates a feminist, systemic and trauma-informed lens into her practice. Jennifer meets her clients with personal transparency, warmth and humour.

    Jennifer’s current specialized interests are mindfulness-based and emotionally-focused couples therapy, perinatal and maternal mental health, family therapy, and somatic therapies including Hakomi.

    Jennifer’s personal experience with postpartum depression deepened her awareness and expanded her capacity to empathize with and support mothers with young children. She is passionate about promoting and supporting maternal mental health; helping mothers to ride the wave of bliss and exhaustion during this unique time period, to find meaning and support amidst the messiness, and to maintain a compassionate relationship with oneself during this time.

    When she is not at work, Jennifer can be found enjoying the west coast lifestyle with her 2 children, savouring a coffee in the sunshine, or riding her bike through the forest trails.

    EDUCATION & TRAINING:
    + Master of Social Work (Specialization: Clinical Practice) – University of Calgary
    + Bachelor of Social Work, With Distinction – University of Victoria, British Columbia
    + Internship (Family Therapy) with Dr. Karl Tomm – Calgary Family Therapy Centre
    + Hakomi Body-Centred Psychotherapy, 300 hours – Hakomi Institute Calgary
    + Yoga Therapy – Mount Royal University, Calgary
    + Yoga Teacher Certification – Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Kerala, India

    PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
    + Alberta College of Social Workers, 2003-2015
    + British Columbia College of Social Workers, since 2015
    + British Columbia Association of Social Workers since 2016

Marny Elliott

Parent Coach and Relationship Counsellor

Certified in the Nurtured Heart Approach® and Spiritual Psychotherapy, Marny supports parents, individuals, and couples to create nourishing relationships and strong emotional foundations for themselves and their children.

  • Certified in the Nurtured Heart Approach® and Spiritual Psychotherapy, Marny supports parents, individuals, and couples to create nourishing relationships and strong emotional foundations for themselves and their children. With a client-centered and strength-based focus, she supports others to more successfully manage life’s stresses, changes, and challenges.

    Those experiencing a life transition or struggling with limiting beliefs, patterns, and behaviors can find a safe, non-judgmental space to gain awareness, resilience, and tools. Her goal is to bring compassion, sensitivity, and diverse expertise to those seeking clarity, calm, and connection to experience greater joy and fulfillment.

    Marny uses the Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) as a foundation to help adults with children in their lives build a roadmap to greater success. Through a strong relationship and resilient inner strength, children’s behaviour can shift as can dynamics in the home and/or classroom. She empowers her clients with a greater understanding of adult-child dynamics, skills to reach their goals, and confidence to effectively maintain long-term balance.

    In working with individuals, Marny trusts that people know what is best for themselves. She sees her role as a guide to help others connect with that self-awareness and wisdom. She aims to provide a holistic approach, drawing on diverse skills/training, to shift the roles, beliefs, experiences, and barriers that prevent us from thriving in our most important relationship – the one we have with ourselves.

    Interpersonal relationships provide a profound opportunity to learn about ourselves and each other. In working with couples, Marny helps partners become more aware of how they contribute to issues, get in touch with deeper needs, and begin a path toward both loving and letting go. Through open, compassionate communication and honest self-reflection, couples can reduce negative patterns and love more consciously.

    For more details, please visit www.joywithin.ca

Suzan Moldenhauer

Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling

Suzan offers individual counselling for people who are struggling with issues around eating and building successful relationships as well as couples counselling for those who need help making changes in their relationship.

  • If you are looking for help with food or body image struggles, or are looking to overcome a relationship problem, Suzan can help.

    Suzan specializes in working with individuals struggling with disordered eating and eating disorders. With a client-centered and compassionate approach, she creates a safe and non-judgemental space for individuals to explore their relationship with food, body, and self. She works with adolescents and adults to address the underlying emotional and psychological factors that contribute to disordered eating. She helps clients develop coping skills to manage difficult emotions, improve body image, and build a healthy relationship with food and body.

    As a relationship counsellor, Suzan believes that the quality of our relationships profoundly impacts our overall well-being and personal growth. Through a strength-based approach, she helps individuals recognize their resilience and inherent strengths, allowing them to create more satisfying and fulfilling relationships.

    As a couple’s counsellor, Suzan builds her practice around the highly acclaimed Gottman Method, which focuses on improving friendship, deepening emotional connection, and learning new ways to deal with problems and conflicts in a positive way. Her training through the Gottman Institute provides her with well researched, evidence-based methods to help clients build a better and more fulfilling relationship. She understands that relationships can face various challenges, such as communication breakdowns, trust issues, intimacy concerns, and conflicting values.

    With empathy and insight, she guides her clients through these obstacles, empowering them to find understanding and deeper connections.

    If you are looking for a counsellor who makes you feel at ease, who’s knowledge you trust, and who works compassionately to support your goals, you’ve come to the right place