Jennifer also set up her own company in London to provide quality care to individuals affected by substance use disorder and other co-occurring disorders.

Jennifer has a lot of experience in developing tailor-made bespoke support services for a range of disorders and addictions and has specialist experience in providing relapse-prevention, recovery-based social integration and continuing care support. Jennifer recognises that a person also needs a lot of help and support after their treatment episode, or a person may be at a later stage but need some extra help to maintain their personal recovery.

Jennifer also helped develop a community recovery service for people who are both abstinent and non-abstinent. She incorporated a range of services to promote integration into mainstream society through education, vocational training, volunteer work and a range of holistic therapies.

Jennifer’s strong interest for ‘relapse’ led to her master’s degree research focussing on “What are the main factors contributing to why abstinent-based recovering drug addicts/alcoholics relapse.” This research resulted in Jennifer implementing a relapse prevention treatment program designed to help people that had developed a pattern of relapse to exit the cycle.

Jennifer has extensive experience of working with family members and feels that the family quite often need more support than they are offered. Helping the family as a whole can also help the person to have a better outcome and improve their relationships.

Jennifer recently completed training in mindfulness with the Jon- Kabat Zinn MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) model. Jennifer has a strong interest in this approach and believes that there are lots of benefits with helping people with mental health issues and reducing stress and chronic pain.