Jessica Milette

(she/her)

Education: MSW, RSW

Background: Jessica is a passionate community-focused grief advocate, fostering change through a culture of collaboration, lifelong learning, best practices, and creativity to build a brighter and kinder future. Jessica has been a Registered Social Worker since 2018 with four years of experience in hospice care. Jessica is also informed by her 15 years of experience providing grief and mental health peer support.

Specialty:

• Grief and Loss
• Non-death Grief and Loss
• Grieving complex relationships
• Caregiver support
• Anticipatory Grief
• Palliative Care
• Coping with uncertainty
• Loss of identity
• Service industry and gig economy workers

Approach:

• Mindfulness Techniques
• Decolonial Approaches
• Polyvagal Theory
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Narrative Therapy
• Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)/Parts Work
• Creative and Expressive Writing Techniques
• Person-Centered
• Strengths-Based
• Trauma-Informed
• Anti-Oppressive Practice

Perspective: Jessica believes in the power of connection; within ourselves, with those who have died, those we are in relationship with, and with our greater communities. She believes that therapy is a space where we can cultivate new ways of learning, thinking, and moving through challenging moments in our lives. Jessica welcomes clients with warmth, authenticity, curiosity, and open-heartedness. It can feel difficult to keep track of different reflections in therapy, and if it is helpful she offers clients a short recap containing key themes, and relevant resources.

Jessica can bill directly to Greenshield Insurance, Medavie Blue Cross, Manulife Insurance, Telus eClaims, and RAWM Insurance.