Jennifer Hawkins

Jennifer is a Registered Psychologist who supports children experiencing anxiety in its many forms, including separation anxiety, social anxiety, selective mutism, sleep anxiety, health and medical anxiety, phobias, and panic. She also works with children who are navigating OCD, big emotions and emotional regulation, behavioural challenges, trauma and stress, and grief and loss.

She has a special interest in supporting neurodivergent children, including children with autism, ADHD, executive functioning differences, social communication challenges, and giftedness. She also helps children build social skills, navigate friendships and peer relationships, and feel more confident in their interactions with others.

Working alongside parents and caregivers is an important part of her approach. Through parent coaching, she helps families better understand what may be underneath their child's behaviour, strengthen connection, and find practical ways to support their child at home and in their everyday world. Her goal is to help children feel safe, understood, confident, and capable.

Her warm, patient, and strengths-based approach allows children to feel comfortable being themselves. Sessions are often playful and creative, using play therapy, art therapy, Theraplay, and executive functioning strategies to help children explore their emotions, develop coping skills, build self-awareness, and strengthen problem-solving abilities.

She offers in-person therapy sessions for children, as well as both in-person and online parent coaching, providing families with support that feels practical, collaborative, and tailored to their child's unique needs.