Assistant Professor
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
Ainsley Jenicek is a Clinical Social Worker, Couple and Family Therapist, and Psychotherapist who joined the School of Social work as an Assistant Professor in June 2022 after several years working in youth psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital and in private practice. Her therapeutic work has involved working with people individually and in relationships (couples, parents and children, three generation families, sibling relationships). Her clinical work has been focused on relational trauma in childhood and adulthood, intergenerational family issues, intercultural and interracial relationships, gender identity within relationships, and mental health struggles, such as major depression, suicidality, anxiety, and more. In addition to her training as a Couple and Family Therapist, she has completed the three-year training to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) as well as a fellowship year with the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Quebec English Branch. Ainsley also worked for the Ordre des travailleurs sociaux et thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux (OTSTCFQ) to support the creation of the four foundational documents (the "Référentiels") that describe and frame the required competencies of Couple and Family Therapists within the province of Quebec. Prior to becoming a clinician, Ainsley worked in the community sector doing popular education, community building, group facilitation, and offering informal support within the LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and migrant communities based in Quebec. She is currently pursuing her PhD focusing on chosen family systems to explore how these family systems shift the way we view families as a whole and how clinicians might prepare themselves to support these relationship systems.
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Saturday, April 15, 2023
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM US Eastern Time