Jennifer Keough- Therapist

11/18/2025

11/11/2025

Why Couples Who Come Together Later in Life Benefit from Counselling

When couples form later in life, they bring a lifetime of experiences, values, and responsibilities to the relationship. While this creates depth and wisdom, it can also introduce unique challenges. Counselling provides a space to strengthen your connection and ensure that this new chapter starts on a strong foundation.

Here’s why:

Blended histories: Each partner comes with a personal story — previous relationships, families, careers, and patterns that shape how they connect. Counselling helps you understand and integrate these histories in healthy ways.

Clear communication: Later-in-life couples often know what they want — but expressing needs or navigating differences can still be difficult. Counselling helps improve communication and fosters mutual respect.

Merging lives and families: Combining households, finances, or adult children’s dynamics can be complex. Counselling helps you plan thoughtfully and manage change together.

Healing old wounds: Past hurts can influence present relationships. Counselling offers a safe place to address unresolved emotions, so they don’t interfere with the bond you’re building now.

Intentional connection: At this stage, love is a choice. Counselling helps you be intentional about maintaining closeness, intimacy, and teamwork as you build a shared future.

Investing in counselling early on isn’t about fixing problems — it’s about building a healthy foundation for a fulfilling and lasting partnership.

Does this resonate with you?
If you see yourself in any of what I’ve shared, you don’t have to face it alone. Couples counselling can help you strengthen your connection, navigate differences, and create a relationship built on understanding and trust.

Reaching out can be the first step toward feeling supported and finding a way forward.

Jennifer Keough, DCP-C, MA, RSW, CCC, CCS
Online or in-person sessions available
📍 50 High Street, Grand Falls-Windsor
📞 Call: 709-300-7567
💻 Book online: evergreenwellnessnewfoundland.janeapp.com

11/06/2025

Welcome Back to Exploring Life’s Challenges Together

Each week in this series, I’m highlighting a common life challenge and sharing insights to give you a glimpse into what it might be like to work with me in therapy. My goal is to offer encouragement, reflection, and a sense that you’re not alone in what you’re facing.

These posts aren’t meant to replace therapy, but to spark awareness and hope as you consider your own path forward.

Today, we’ll explore divorce.

Does this resonate with you?

If you see yourself in any of what I’ve shared, you don’t have to face it alone. Reaching out can be the first step toward feeling supported and finding a way forward.

Jennifer Keough, DCP-C, MA, RSW, CCC, CCS
Online or in-person sessions available
📍 50 High Street, Grand Falls-Windsor
📞 Call: 709-300-7567
💻 Book online: evergreenwellnessnewfoundland.janeapp.com

11/04/2025

“Now That I’ve Said That Out Loud…”

It’s one of the most common things I hear in therapy and it’s often followed by a deep breath, a moment of clarity, or even tears.

Saying something out loud can change everything.

When we give our thoughts and emotions words, they become real enough to understand, examine, and work through. What once felt overwhelming, confusing, or tangled starts to make sense.

Processing out loud helps you:
Gain perspective — thoughts that swirl in your mind sound different when spoken.
Organize emotions — saying things aloud helps you notice patterns and uncover what’s really beneath the surface.
Feel seen and understood — having someone truly listen can make even the heaviest feelings lighter.

You don’t have to have everything figured out before you speak it. Therapy is the place to find your words and, through them, your way forward.

Does this resonate with you?

If you see yourself in any of what I’ve shared, you don’t have to face it alone. Reaching out can be the first step toward feeling supported and finding clarity.

Jennifer Keough, DCP-C, MA, RSW, CCC, CCS

Online or in-person sessions available
📍 50 High Street, Grand Falls-Windsor
📞 Call: 709-300-7567
💻 Book online: evergreenwellnessnewfoundland.janeapp.com

10/30/2025

Welcome Back to Exploring Life’s Challenges Together

Each week in this series, I’m highlighting a common life challenge and sharing insights to give you a glimpse into what it might be like to work with me in therapy. My goal is to offer encouragement, reflection, and a sense that you’re not alone in what you’re facing.

These posts aren’t meant to replace therapy, but to spark awareness and hope as you consider your own path forward.

Today, we’ll explore burnout.

10/23/2025

Welcome Back to Exploring Life’s Challenges Together

Each week in this series, I’m highlighting a common life challenge and sharing insights to give you a glimpse into what it might be like to work with me in therapy. My goal is to offer encouragement, reflection, and a sense that you’re not alone in what you’re facing.

These posts aren’t meant to replace therapy, but to spark awareness and hope as you consider your own path forward.

Today, we’ll explore blended families.

10/16/2025

Welcome Back to Exploring Life’s Challenges Together

Each week in this series, I’m highlighting a common life challenge and sharing insights to give you a glimpse into what it might be like to work with me in therapy. My goal is to offer encouragement, reflection, and a sense that you’re not alone in what you’re facing.

These posts aren’t meant to replace therapy, but to spark awareness and hope as you consider your own path forward.

Today, we’ll explore Life Transitions.

10/15/2025

Our practicum interns are accepting new clients (ages 10+) for both in-person and online sessions across Canada!

Individual Sessions: $25
Couples & Family Sessions: $50

Each intern offers compassionate, client-centred support in a safe and welcoming space—helping you navigate life’s challenges, strengthen relationships, and build emotional well-being.

Your healing journey deserves care, understanding, and accessibility.

10/14/2025

NL Health Services is offering a free, virtual Family Matters Group, a supportive 10-week program for adults who have a loved one living with mental health issues and/or addictions.

The sessions focus on:

✔️ Understanding mental health and addictions

✔️ Exploring the impacts on the family

✔️ Setting healthy boundaries

✔️ Building self-care and communication strategies

✔️ Supporting recovery

Dates: October 30, 2025 – January 15, 2026

Time: Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Newfoundland) |1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Labrador)

Duration: 10 sessions

Location: Online via Zoom

To register, email: nlgroups@nlhealthservices.ca

To learn more, please visit https://nl.bridgethegapp.ca/adult/online-programs/provincial-mental-health-groups/family-matters/

10/11/2025

As Thanksgiving arrives, I find myself reflecting on the many moments of growth, connection, and courage I’ve witnessed this year, from clients showing up for themselves in hard seasons, to students leaning into their learning, to colleagues continuing to support one another with compassion and care.

Gratitude, to me, isn’t about perfection or having it all figured out, it’s about noticing the small, quiet moments that remind us we’re still growing, still healing, and still becoming.

Whether you’re surrounded by loved ones or carving out space for rest and reflection, I hope this weekend offers you gentleness, grounding, and gratitude in whatever form it shows up for you.

With warmth and appreciation,
Jennifer Keough

10/09/2025