Our team
Jennie Fitzhardinge, MCouns
Jennie is the owner and principal therapist at Navigator and her specialty is working with people who struggle with intense emotions and their aftermath.
She helps her clients to navigate life's difficult challenges and choices. She draws on her experience and training as a family and mental health counsellor and prior experience in the media, corporate and government sectors to give her clients a whole-of-life approach to navigate their unique challenges.
Jennie’s therapeutic tool box includes Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and other person-centred therapies. These therapies give people the skills they need to manage their emotions and their relationships.
Jennie has a Masters in Counselling from Murdoch University and experience in the not-for-profit and academic sectors. She has completed intensive DBT training and has 10 years’ experience delivering DBT-informed groups. She is a Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) Registered Clinical Counsellor. She was on the NEABPD Australia steering committee and regularly runs the free Family Connections program for family and friends of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Pepper
Pepper is Jennie’s co-therapist. She is particularly good at working with young people with anxiety and emotional distress. If you are not a dog person, then she will not attend. Pepper does not charge for her services, she does it for the love of humanity and pats. Lots of pats.