About Jen Chester ~
Jen is a highly experienced therapist and teacher.
Offering Art Therapy, Equine Assisted Therapy and
counselling in the Logan, Scenic Rim, Yarrabilba and Jimboomba areas.
Jen holds a Degree in Psychological Science from Griffith University, a Diploma of Transpersonal Art Therapy from the Ikon Institute, a Masters in Mental Health from UQ and is a qualified Equine Assisted Therapist through Equine Assisted Therapy Australia.
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Jen lectured in Expressive Arts Psychotherapy at the Ikon Institute in Brisbane for 8 years.
Masters of Mental Health(UQ)/AThR(ANZACATA),
B.Psych.Science.,Dip Transpersonal Art Therapy,
Equine Assisted Therapy Australia training
​Jen has extensive experience as a therapist and has worked as a Youth Worker in an Immediate Response residence for teenage boys and with vulnerable young people at both headspace and Mater CYMHS. Today she delivers Equine Assisted therapy and Art Therapy combined with Nature Therapy at Tamborine Village. Jen currently works with clients of all ages, including teens/young adults with ASD, ADHD and at-risk youth in care. She has extensive experience in working with neurodiverse clients.
Jen initially trained at Ikon in the transpersonal Art Therapy model established by Dr. Raphael Locke, an anthropologist, psychoanalyst, consciousness researcher and initiated Iroquois shaman, then lectured at Ikon as the course transformed into a more clinical model, rounding out her training at UQ with the Masters of Mental Health, Art Therapy major.
​She combines the transpersonal and clinical models into a holistic trauma informed experiential psychotherapeutic approach utilising a range of creative modalities.
​​Both Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Expressive Arts Psychotherapy are trauma informed experiential forms of therapy that can help develop new neural pathways to facilitate behavioural and cognitive change. Together they create a powerful process to enable transformation.
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Jen is committed to ethical practice and holds space with absolute care and respect for her clients.
