Changing the narrative. - what is your story, how has your story impacted you? Understanding the consequences of trauma is to explore new territory, to find rich story development and the preferred identity in which you seek. This service is Aboriginal owned & operated therapeutic services. Janneen holds strong cultural ties to the Narungga nations people of South Australia of Yorke Peninsula. As a First Nations woman I believe in connecting culture to our wellbeing to begin the healing process. Our own stories and experiences have shaped us to who we are today. We look at ways of re-telling, re-authoring and re-membering our stories to make our own identities stronger. 

Janneen has 25 years experience and knowledge in child protection services, half the career spent as a first responder to First Nations investigation and assessments, and the other half in early intervention child protection. The predominant work has been working intimately with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander families in the strong advocacy in keeping families together and addressing the generational trauma that has impacted by colonial practices that continue to impact Aboriginal communities today. Children being removed at an exponential rate is causing generational disconnection and identity loss. 

Janneen holds a Masters degree  & Grad Cert in Narrative Therapy & Community Work and is in the early stages of a PhD focusing on the relationships between First Nations communities and child protection. Janneen is a trauma specialist and is currently working as a sexual assault therapist. Janneen has interests in complex trauma, generational trauma, group-work and Aboriginal attachment theory and the connection to oneself , culturally, spiritually and to family. An area to be explicitly explored.