JENNIFER ELVE
MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST
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ABOUT JENNIFER
Jennifer Elve is a psychotherapist. Jennifer has received a Masters of Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Adams State University. She also holds a Bachelors of Science in Gerontolgy from the University of South Florida. Jennifer currently owns and operates her own private practice, Elevated Counseling and Wellness PLLC while also working with the Washington State Department of Enterprise Services as an Employee Assistance Program counselor. In her private practice, she focuses primarily on racial trauma, depression, and anxiety. Jennifer actively works toward de-stigmatizing mental illness to create a more socially just society for all. Jennifer offers presentations, group facilitation, supervision and consultation specializing in diversifying outdoor spaces, improving mental health with outdoor spaces, racial trauma, mental health, crisis response and social justice. Jennifer strives to help others find happiness and healing within themselves through processing their history, building resilience, reflecting, reclaiming their joy and recharging with the goal of healing and becoming the best version of themselves.
As an Afro-Caribbean American woman now living in the Pacific Northwest, I’ve realized you can learn a lot about how you see yourself in the world and how the world sees you! And finding a space that helps you connect and communicate is vital to overall wellbeing. I have a strong affinity towards harm reduction/trauma, social justice work, and racial identity. I am a Geriatric Mental Health specialist through the state of Washington and offer support and tools around caregivers, aging, life transitions, grief, and loss.
Therapeutically speaking, I focus on working psychodynamically with my clients, analyzing the whole person, not just a cluster of symptoms. together we will explore your life experience early on, examine patterns of relating and will refine your goals to cultivate a satisfying and meaningful life. I utilize an eclectic therapy approaches of Narrative therapy, somatic therapy and Cognotive Behavioral Therapy. I look forward to working together with you, while you explore, learn, and evolve into the person you want to be.
Personally, I am founder of LevelUp Hikes LLC. The first black female led hiking touring company in Washingston state. Jennifer is very interested in diversifying the outdoors and showing the connection between our physical, emotional and mental wellbeing through our connections to nature.
“Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don’t prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.”
—Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself