Main Areas of Focus
Main Areas of Focus
Healing from Childhood Trauma, Abuse and Neglect
Healing from Childhood Trauma, Abuse and Neglect
If your childhood has been difficult and often left you feeling unseen, unheard, and unloved - due to abuse, neglect, or intergenerational trauma - and over time led you to struggle with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and relationship issues:
Overcoming Depression and Low Mood
Overcoming Depression and Low Mood
If you are unhappy with yourself or with life despite your accomplishments, and are extremely negative or critical with yourself:
My hope is to provide you with a safe space to be vulnerable and to talk about your difficult feelings. To help you understand and manage your feelings better so that over time you may gain clarity and new insights about yourself and your needs.
Anxiety Support
Anxiety Support
If you are struggling internally with constant worries, feeling overwhelmed, self-doubt, and fear of judgement, rejection and abandonment:
I use evidence-based strategies to help you manage your worries and fears and to help you re-shift and reframe the way you think about yourself and your situation so that you can find more inner peace within yourself.
Improving Relationship & Communication
Improving Relationship & Communication
If you are struggling with relationship issues with your partner, family and friends, or feeling insecure and difficulty being intimate or opening up to people. Or having difficulty setting boundaries and being a “people pleaser”:
I can help you gain new understandings of where your difficulties and unhelpful patterns stems from and how they get carried into our adult relationships. My aim is to hold space for deep reflections and insights that will further bring change into yourself and eventually your relationships with others.
Building Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
Building Self-Esteem and Self-Worth
If you often engage in critical self-talk, are a people pleaser, and feel unsatisfied with yourself or feel disconnected with yourself:
I can help you gain more insight and awareness into yourself, your patterns and tendencies. To better understand how it impacts you, your relationships, and help guide you to reconnect with your true authentic self and improve your sense of self worth.
"Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us." - David Richo
"All healing starts with beginning to accept yourself and love yourself: even your flaws."
- Bryant McGill
“Emotions serve an important purpose – they clue you into things that you’ll never understand if you don’t take the time to ask yourself why.”
— Travis Bradberry
Jennifer Leong Psychotherapy
Jennifer Leong Psychotherapy
Jennifer Leong, MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker
Registration #: 822341