Jennifer Anderson
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Hello! I’m Jennifer.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and have been practicing since 2004. I founded Conejo Valley Family Counseling in 2014.
At a very young age I was always the person that my friends turned to for support. In high school I was a peer counselor and had my first experience of coming along side people in their time of need and I knew I found my calling and passion. From that time on I knew there was nothing else I wanted to do. I also had the experience of working with an amazing therapist in my young adulthood that helped me work through my own pain points and struggles. She changed the way I see myself and the world and I am the person I am today because of her. Being on the receiving end of a healing relationship made me know all the more that I wanted to help people find healing and hope.
I specialize in working with people healing from early relational trauma, survivors of childhood abuse, those with dissociative disorders as well as parents of special needs children due to raising 2 special needs children of my own.
My Approach
I pull from a variety of methods that are based in the healing power of relationships and repatterning the brain such as Attachment Focused EMDR, Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment, Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy, Neuroaffective Relational Model, and Trauma Regulation and Integration Process.
I help my clients examine the patterns that have shaped their lives based on early relationship injuries or traumas. As we begin to examine these patterns I help my clients to look at new ways of responding to themselves and those that they are in relationship with. For those clients that struggle with painful memories, flashbacks, or hypervigilance to triggers we use models to help free them from the hold the past has on them so that they are able to live in the present.
I hope my clients experience their time with me as a place where they feel seen, heard, valued and understood. I strive to give my clients a corrective experience that helps repair the earlier experiences that have led to anxiety, depression, low self esteem, relationship challenges and difficulty coping with every day life. I hope through the process of making sense of their painful experiences that my clients are able to live a life full of joy, fulfillment, and freedom from the pain they have been carrying with them.
If you're ready to take the next step towards healing and connection, please reach out and schedule a session. I'm here to support you every step of the way.