Dr. Jennifer Hopton, C.Psych.

Clinical Psychologist

Office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00 am – 3:30 pm; Thursdays 1:00 – 7:00 pm (Monday virtual only).

I am a registered psychologist who is passionate about supporting people to rewire their brains and nervous systems to experience optimal well-being.

I work with children, adolescents, and adults experiencing:

  • stress

  • anxiety

  • depression

  • grief and loss

  • difficulties with emotion regulation

  • life transitions

  • performance blocks

  • recovery from sports injury and concussion

I work collaboratively with my people to increase their felt sense of safety and connection to self and others, to process stress, reactive patterns and emotional experience, and to increase mindful awareness, a sense of inner stability, and self-compassion. This work expands into new ways of being to optimize clients’ performance and ability to be in a flow state – at home, work, in relationships, as parents, in performance, and sport.

I believe in a holistic approach to health. I use an integrative approach, grounded in neuroscience, that recognizes the wisdom and healing orientation of our brains and bodies when in the supportive presence of an attuned, non-judgmental other.

I have in-depth knowledge and training in the following evidence-based approaches:

  • Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT, Phase 1; completing Phase 2)

  • Brainspotting Therapy TM (Phases 1 through 4; Master Class; Expansion; Brainspotting & Integrative Sport Medicine; Consultant-in-Training; currently completing the 7-month F.L.O.W. Model Master Program specialty training for work to enhance performance)

  • Rhythms of Regulation: Polyvagal Theory & Applications in Therapy

  • Emotion-Focused Therapy (Levels 1 & 2)

  • Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)

  • Circle of Security Parenting (COS-P)

  • Attachment, Regulation, Competency (ARC) framework for complex trauma

  • Structural Model of Dissociation

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Mindfulness meditation

I completed a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Counselling Psychology at McGill University in 2003, and then worked for several years in community, not-for-profit settings. I went on to complete a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa in 2016. My graduate research focused on trajectories of symptoms following developmental trauma, predictors of placement stability in the child welfare system, and program evaluation of trauma-focused treatment groups for men. I have worked extensively with complex developmental trauma and dissociation.

I regularly provide supervision and consultation to psychology trainees, clinicians, and community agencies. As a Brainspotting Consultant, I provide guidance to therapists completing Brainspotting training and certification.