About Wild Calm
The Intention
Wild Calm Therapies is a founder-led practice based in Hobart, Tasmania, working online with individuals, professionals and organisations across Australia.
Founded by Jen Wiedman, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, supervisor and educator, Wild Calm brings together specialist therapy, professional supervision, experiential groups and organisational support. While the offerings or modalities may vary, the intention remains consistent: to support more sustainable ways of living, relating and working, from the inside out, that suit you. Not the expectations of you, what’s authentic to you.
My work is grounded in professional expertise, lived understanding and a commitment to recognising the person behind the role, the history behind the pattern and the broader systems that shape our lives.
I have a particular interest in supporting professionals, leaders and helping practitioners navigating responsibility, over-functioning and burnout, alongside my established specialisation in trauma and family and domestic violence recovery. I also value creating spaces that recognise and respect the experiences of women, queer and LGBTIQA+ communities, and people whose lives don't fit conventional expectations.
Sustainable work starts from within
I believe the way we work should reflect the values we bring to the work itself. Sustainability isn't simply about doing more with less or finding better ways to keep pushing. It requires space to reflect, recognise our limits, question what we've come to consider normal and make more deliberate choices about how we use our time and energy.
As a solo practitioner, I build these principles into how I structure my practice, balance professional commitments and prioritise quality over quantity. These values also inform my work with professionals and organisations seeking more sustainable ways of working.
This also means that from time to time, I will take a longer break for my own mental and physical health, and may invite you to temporarily transfer your services to Telehealth during any longer working away periods. Read about how to make this work well here.
Professional expertise, without the pedestal
I value authenticity, connection and the willingness to acknowledge our own imperfections. Professional expertise matters, as does the capacity to remain curious, recognise power and approach people with humility and respect.
I don't believe being a professional means having everything figured out. Nor should lived experience be dismissed in favour of formal knowledge alone. Both can contribute to deeper understanding when held thoughtfully, ethically and within appropriate professional boundaries.
Across my work, I aim to create spaces where people can think honestly, explore difficult patterns and develop greater agency without needing to perform, prove themselves or get everything right. This is how we start to shift from shame to self acceptance, and even some self love.
At Wild Calm Therapies, the goal isn't perfection. It's creating more room for people to be themselves and building ways of living and working that are genuinely sustainable.
My Approach
What Makes Wild Calm Different.
There is no single formula for meaningful change. And while a single conversation or practical tool can make a difference, lasting change often asks for more than insight alone.
At Wild Calm Therapies, I bring together professional expertise, lived understanding and an integrated, relational approach to the way we live, relate and work.
Whether we're exploring personal recovery, professional identity, workplace pressures or the patterns that keep us over-functioning, the focus is on understanding what is happening, recognising what matters and creating opportunities to respond differently.
My approach is grounded in the following principles.
Trauma-informed, context-aware practice
People don't exist in isolation from their histories, relationships, identities or environments. I approach behaviour and coping patterns with curiosity about the experiences and circumstances that shaped them, rather than reducing people to problems to be fixed.
This means recognising both the impact of adversity and the strengths, resourcefulness and adaptations people develop along the way.
Responsive, person-centred work
No two people, professional contexts or groups are the same. I adapt the work to the people involved, their circumstances, needs and goals, while maintaining clear professional boundaries and a purposeful direction.
The process is responsive without being aimless, and collaborative without losing the value of professional guidance.
An integrated, whole-person perspective
Our thoughts, bodily responses, relationships, identities and environments influence how we experience and navigate the world. My work draws on relational, narrative, somatic and neuro-informed perspectives to explore these connections.
The intention is to move beyond understanding patterns intellectually and create opportunities to practise different ways of responding in everyday life.
Safety, capacity and sustainable change
Meaningful change requires attention to context, capacity and pace. In therapeutic work, this may involve establishing safety and stability, processing experiences where appropriate, and rebuilding connection, agency and a sense of self.
In professional and group settings, it may mean recognising habitual responses under pressure, developing greater awareness and practising more sustainable ways of working and relating.
There is no universal timeline, and progress is rarely linear.
The relationship matters
The quality of the working relationship matters. I aim to create spaces that are respectful, boundaried and attentive to the dynamics of trust, power and difference.
This includes being willing to reflect, acknowledge missteps and engage in repair when needed. Professional expertise and human connection are not competing priorities; both are important to the work.
Collaboration, agency and shared power
I bring professional knowledge, experience and practical tools. You bring your own knowledge of your life, priorities and circumstances. Neither perspective tells the whole story on its own.
I value working alongside people rather than positioning myself as the authority on their experience. The aim is to support greater understanding, agency and choice—not to create dependence on me or a single way of doing things.
Quality over quick fixes
I value thoughtful, consistent work over promises of instant transformation. Depending on the service, meaningful engagement may take the form of ongoing individual work, a structured group experience, professional supervision or a tailored organisational engagement.
Each has its own purpose, scope and timeframe. The intention is the same: to make the work useful, grounded and relevant beyond the session or program itself.
Hi, I’m Jen Wiedman.
For the past 20 years, I’ve been exploring what it takes to keep choosing myself and turn up authentically—especially when it feels like a sense of belonging or relational connection is at risk. And for the last 6 years as a Mental Health Social Worker and Supervisor in private practice, I’ve been bringing this same curiosity, compassion and empowering practice to every worker that sits in front of me who tells me of the same issues: burnout with the systems, lack of safe boundaries, being on autopilot, a sense of just going through the motions, choosing what feels known over what feels true, and complete and utter exhaustion.
I’m deeply passionate about reclaiming our power as workers, yes even within broken systems. It is a radical act of anti-oppressive practice to take charge of our own selves, the way we interact with clients and colleagues, and take care of ourselves. It is advocacy and activism. It starts with us. If we can do it for ourselves, we can also model this for our clients, colleagues, staff and family too.
I’m beyond passionate about family violence recovery, Queer folks, worker wellbeing and sector disruption. I love working individually and collectively with victim-survivors, lived-experience-workers and leaders, and doing my part to transform minds, practices, lives and systems to orient to us first. But it starts with us.
Holistic Experiences
Talk therapy
Talking therapy is designated for individuals to process and explore their thoughts. Commonly this incorporates support to reflect, examine, and think critically about scenarios or concerns. This capacity is influenced by numerous factors on any given day: the amount and quality of sleep we’ve had, the accumulations of stressors that day to get to therapy, and so on. A therapist will help you separate and pace the session, not feeling rushed or pressured.
Using an attachment-focused approach, meaning creating a safe, stable and secure relationship together, supports deeper self-exploration and more sustainable and positive outcomes in therapy.
Sensory safety
Our space has been intentionally and thoughtfully designed to cater to all senses, taking into consideration your whole experience as a client. Here, every moment, every input is intended to help soothe the entire brain and nervous system.
Specifically designed to elicit an atmosphere of comfort and sanctuary, the space incorporates aromatherapy, calming colours and warm textures to explore or gaze upon. The room is light filled and you can enjoy looking outside. Lights off and blinds can be drawn if you are light sensitive.
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Relational & Community
Research tells us that the most significant predictor of a positive outcome for therapy is the relationship someone has with their therapist. This element has been shown to be even more important than what interventions, strategies or techniques are used in counselling. This factor makes it so important for people to see their therapist as another human, rather than ‘experts’ or people who have it all together. We too have insecurities and flaws, and experience fear and sadness and struggle with our own vulnerabilities. It is this collective human experience that helps us to connect with each other in meaningful, shared ways and enhances the ability to grow and thrive.
“Without community, there is no liberation…” Audrey Lorde
Creative & Somatic experiences
Alongside talk therapy, non-verbal ways of engaging, relating and expressing are offered, such as creative and expressive therapies, and body-based and sensory approaches. Somatic experiences can include breath work, gentle movement, pausing or slowing down to observe what’s happening in your body, or using humming, big sighs or rhythms. These interventions effectively regulate the emotional parts of the brain (the limbic system and the brain stem), the areas of the brain that are often in distress when people attend counselling.
Using this approach allows individuals with differing sensory needs, verbal capacity, or who have experienced significant trauma, to have access to a variety of modalities for self-expression.
Walking sessions are also available as this can be less formal, less confronting as we walk side by side, keep the body in gentle movement, and inspired by natures’ surroundings and lessons.