Connect with Jennifer

Resilience Counselors provide individual and group counseling sessions to students on-campus and by telehealth. As your child’s Resilience Counselor, Jennifer is able to provide individualized social and emotional support beyond what is possible to offer in a full classroom setting.

Some of the ways in which our Resilience Counselors are helpful to students and their families include:

  • Facilitating strengths-based individual and group therapy to support student resilience

  • Sharing information and resources with parents and caregivers as part of the therapy process

  • Encouraging collaborative support from school staff, administrators, and teachers while still protecting student confidentiality

  • Strategizing approaches for students, families, and colleagues with a focus towards improving behavior, relationships, and academic performance

  • Engaging in classroom observation and social emotional learning (SEL) topics to gather information about student strengths and challenges, to better provide comprehensive individual support

  • Assisting in crisis intervention and response

    You can contact Jennifer by email at Jen@AcknowledgeAlliance.org

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Jennifer is an Associate Clinical Social Worker with Master’s Degrees in Social Work and Public Health from Boston University. After many years of working in public health and health education at health insurance companies, she started a small business teaching yoga and mindfulness to kids of all ages, primarily in schools. She continued to pursue mindfulness training from Mindful Schools, Mission Be, and San Francisco Education Fund. She decided to go back to her social work roots and received a Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPSC) from UC Berkeley to do school counseling at public schools. She did individual counseling with middle school students last year with One Life Counseling Services. She is excited to be at Acknowledge Alliance to continue her work in school counseling and facilitate social and emotional learning in the classrooms. She is passionate about children's mental health and providing kids with tools to help them with life's challenges.

Acknowledge Alliance is a mental health agency that promotes lifelong resilience in children and youth, and strengthens the caring capacity of the adults who influence their lives. Since 1994, Acknowledge Alliance (formerly the Cleo Eulau Center) has used the power of fostering resilience to help build positive connections between teachers and students to open the doors to learning and wellbeing. The foundation of Acknowledge Alliance started with the belief that when a child has a caring adult in their life who holds high expectations and believes in them, they can succeed despite adversities. Acknowledge Alliance serves K-12 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, integrating resilience into all levels of learning by coaching educators, counseling at-risk youth and teaching social emotional learning lessons for the whole classroom.