Jenna is a Registered Psychotherapist and Yoga Teacher based in Ottawa, Canada. She is the Co-Founder of Holistic Psychotherapy - a Canada-wide Psychotherapy service and virtual resource specializing in holistic and psychedelic-assisted approaches to mental health.
As a Holistic Psychotherapist, Jenna assists her clients in restoring health in mind, body, emotion, relationship, and spirit. She offers individual psychotherapy and clinical supervision. Jenna is also a published researcher in the field of the indigenous Amazonian plant medicine, Ayahuasca, as a complement or alternative to Western mental health treatment.
Jenna respectfully acknowledges that she lives and works on the ancestral, unceded territory of the Anishinaabe People.
Publications
Lafrance, A., Renelli, M., Fletcher, J., Files, N., Tupper, K. W. & Loizaga-Velder, A. (2021). Ayahuasca as a Healing Tool Along the Continuum of Recovery from eating disorders. In The therapeutic use of ayahuasca, Second edition. (Edited by B. C. Labate & C. Cavnar), Springer Science & Business Media.
Renelli, M., Fletcher, J., Loizaga-Velder, A., Files, N., Tupper, K., & Lafrance, A. (2018). Ayahuasca and the Healing of Eating Disorders. In Embodiment and Eating Disorders: A Handbook of Theory, Research, Prevention and Treatment. (Edited by H. L. McBride, J. L. Kwee), Routledge.
Renelli, M., Fletcher, J., Tupper, K. W., Files, N., Loizaga‐Velder, A., & Lafrance, A. (2018). An Exploratory Study of Experiences with Conventional Eating Disorder Treatment and Ceremonial Ayahuasca for the Healing of Eating Disorders. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity. doi:10.1007/s40519-018-0619-6
Lafrance, A., Loizaga-Velder, A. Fletcher, J., Renelli, M., Files, N., & Tupper, K. W. (2017). Nourishing the Spirit: Exploratory Research on Ayahuasca Experiences Along the Continuum of Recovery from Eating Disorders. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. doi:10.1080/02791072.2017.1361559
Lafrance, A., Loizaga-Velder, A., Fletcher, J., & Brewerton, T. (2017). How the Amazonian Tea Ayahuasca Affects Mental Health. Chacruna.
Fletcher, J. & Lafrance, A. (2016). 7 Ways to Cultivate Your Ayahuasca Experience. Chacruna.
Credentials
Master of Arts, Counselling Psychology (2011)
Bachelor of Science, Psychology & Biology (2009)
Registered Psychotherapist (R.P., Registration # 004625) – College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C., Member #6677) – Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association