Jen Wiedman.

She/Her. Director. Owner. Principal Therapist.

Family Violence Specialist Therapist.

Accredited Mental Health Social Worker.

Intersectional. Feminist. Holistic.

Jen is a genuine, grounded Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, specialising in womxn’s wellbeing, LGBTQI+ communities and family violence matters. Originally from Brisbane, Jen identifies as she/her, Queer, Feminist, cis-woman, white Australian, fairly able-bodied, with lived experience.

Jen has worked across a variety of settings including women’s shelters, homelessness, adolescent forensic mental health, acute adult mental health and community development. After designing Queensland government programs for youth development, Jen moved overseas to support local communities in youth program development in the Solomon Islands and Indonesia. Her career and passion really became solidified after working with women experiencing homelessness, largely as a result of family violence in Brisbane. She is particularly interested in exploring the impacts of systems, power, oppressions, social justice, resilience and wellbeing.

Jen’s frameworks sit squarely within an intersectional Feminist space, and she flexibly incorporate a variety of psychological modalities as relevant to your needs.

Her strengths and restoration is drawn from nature and wisdoms of women and cultures gone before her. She connects to a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle, practices yoga and mindfulness to help stay in touch with herself, and enjoys bushwalking, running, van life, going to see live music & arts, good coffee, reading, drag, dance floors, sequins and quality friendships. All dosed healthily with a sense of humour, a laugh at her mistakes and living to her truth and values as authentically she can. Jen currently lives in beautiful Hobart.

She is currently also involved in Australia’s leading clinical trials for psychedelic assisted therapy, and you can check out more of Jen’s working and volunteer history on LinkedIn.

Jen’s expertise is supported by:

  • Bachelor of Social Science Human Services

  • Master of Social Work (Distinction)

  • Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Full Member

  • Accredited Mental Health Social Worker

  • Diploma of Flexible Learning for Young People

    Additional Training:

  • Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) (Psychology Training)

  • Advanced Supervision for Family Violence Sector (AASW)

  • Internal Family Systems (Townsville Clinical Psychology Services)

  • Sexuality Counselling Through the Lifespan (Mental Health Academy)

  • Traumatic Stress, Compassion Fatigue, and the Need for Self-care (Mental Health Academy)

  • Creative Arts Approaches for Reflective Practice and Self-Care in Counselling (Mental Health Academy)

  • The Role of the Body in Couple Therapy (Pat Ogden)

  • Responding to Risk in Intimate Partner Violence

  • Compassion Focussed Therapy

  • Sex Worker Awareness Training (Scarlet Alliance Tasmania)

  • The Five Essential Discussion Tools for working with men (NoToViolence)

  • A Narrative Therapy approach to men’s violence towards women (AASW)

  • CHCDFV001 Recognise and respond appropriately to domestic and family violence (DV-Alert)

  • Family Violence Basics, Screening and Safety Planning, and Responding to Perpetrators (AVERT)

  • Identifying Risk in Intimate Partner Violence - Psychiatric Psychological and Legal Factors (ANZAPPL)

  • Sexual Violence training (ZigZag)

  • PACTS: An innovative Primary care program Advancing Competency To Support family violence survivors (AASW)

  • Trauma Sensitive Yoga (introduction level)

  • Trauma, attachment and neuroscience (van der Kolk)

  • Understanding and responding to complex trauma (Rape and Domestic Violence Services)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) (Russ Harris)

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Psychosis

  • Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (Dr Ari Badaines, PDP)

  • Annual attendance at Domestic Violence conferences, webinars, presentations

  • Quality and ongoing individual supervision from clinical psychologists and peer support from mental health practitioners via MHPNs

Jen specialises in, and people who usually seek Jen out are:

  • Historical, current, or recovering from, or for folks who feel more comfortable seeing a therapist who gets it.

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  • Professionals in these industries who are seeking external supervision, critical self reflection of themselves in their own practice, or burnout prevention

  • Womxn identifying folks who want more out of life, who feel like something is missing and desire for greater fulfilment

  • Queer & Trans identifying folks, who may wish to discuss issues specific to being Queer or Trans, or who just feel more comfortable seeing a Queer therapist with lived experience

  • Folks who are in CNM/ENM/Poly relationship structures, curious and exploring, or experiencing challenges with society, family, mainstream norms or systems. For issues internal and external to relationships.

Jen currently has closed books for therapy & a waitlist for supervision.