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Leadership & supervisor consultation
Focused guidance for leaders navigating burnout, conflict, complex staff needs, boundaries, or organizational change.
Trauma-informed consulting & clinical care · Ontario
Change begins beneath the surface.
Root & Rise helps people and organizations understand what is driving the patterns they can see—then build safer, clearer, and more sustainable ways forward.
Registered Social WorkerOCSWSSW #849159
Two complementary lensesIndigenous Social Work + Behavioural Science
Flexible accessVirtual across Ontario · On-site by arrangement
People are not problems to be fixed.
Behaviour, burnout, and conflict all tell us something about the conditions around them.
The Root & Rise difference
We do not ask people to become more resilient inside systems that keep wearing them down.
For organizations & teams
Healthier workplaces are built—not wished into being.
When teams are stretched thin, another generic wellness presentation is rarely the answer. Root & Rise helps leaders understand the people-and-systems side of pressure and create changes staff can actually feel.
Nonprofits & community servicesHealthcare & human servicesIndigenous organizationsEducationPublic-sector teams
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Workplace assessment & action planning
A practical review of the pressures affecting your people, followed by clear, realistic recommendations your team can use.
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Workshops & facilitated learning
Engaging, customized sessions on trauma-informed leadership, psychological safety, vicarious trauma, communication, and sustainable helping practices.
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Ongoing advisory support
Monthly consultation and responsive leadership support for organizations that need a trusted thinking partner—not another report on a shelf.
What the work strengthens
Psychological safety and trust
Clearer roles and boundaries
Trauma-informed leadership
Burnout and vicarious-trauma prevention
Healthier conflict and communication
People-centred change and crisis response
Clear ethical boundaries
Consultation is not therapy, HR management, an EAP, or a workplace investigation.
The work is systems-focused, practical, and designed to support—not replace—your organization's existing responsibilities.
For individuals & families
Support that looks beneath the behaviour, not down on the person.
Care is collaborative, culturally responsive, and paced with you. You do not need to arrive with the right words—or have everything figured out—to begin.
Individual counselling
Adults 18+ · Virtual across Ontario
Trauma-informed, relational therapy for stress, grief, identity, life transitions, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and the patterns that keep returning.
Behavioural consultation
Individuals, children, youth & caregivers
Practical support to understand what behaviour is communicating and build realistic strategies for home, school, and community life.
Psychedelic-informed support
Education · Preparation · Integration
Grounded, non-directive support for people exploring legal pathways or making meaning of past psychedelic experiences—with safety and ethics at the centre.
Root & Rise does not provide, administer, or facilitate access to psychedelic substances. Services are limited to education, preparation, integration, and therapeutic support within the legal and ethical scope of social work practice in Ontario.
View services & feesOne practice, four commitments
Warm enough for honesty. Structured enough for change.
Relational
Safety, trust, consent, and connection come before performance.
Systems-aware
Individual experiences are understood within family, workplace, culture, and community.
Evidence-informed
Practical tools draw from behavioural science, social work, and trauma-informed practice.
Culturally responsive
Context, identity, colonial history, and lived experience are never treated as footnotes.
Meet Jennifer Jones, BSW, RSW
I understand the person in the room—and the system around them.
I'm a Registered Social Worker, consultant, facilitator, and founder of Root & Rise. My work brings together an Honours degree in Indigenous Social Work, an Advanced Diploma in Behavioural Science, and experience spanning frontline care, program leadership, staff development, organizational strategy, and community services.
I have worked alongside people navigating trauma, addiction, grief, cognitive and developmental differences, family stress, justice-system involvement, and complex service systems—and alongside the teams responsible for supporting them.
That combination lets me translate between lived reality and organizational responsibility, without losing the human being inside either one.
Registered Social WorkerIndigenous Social WorkBehavioural ScienceTrauma-informed practiceFacilitation & adult learning
Beyond the work
Sometimes the long way is the whole point.
Outside of work, I am happiest near water, fishing, wandering through the woods, exploring a new community, or crouched down to photograph something small and strange that most people might walk past.
One of my favourite days this summer began with my partner and me simply looking for a boat ramp. We kept driving from town to town—with no real plan—until we were more than two hours from home and eventually found ourselves out on the river. The searching became the day.
That curiosity shapes how I work, too: notice what gets missed, stay open to the detour, and leave room for the way forward to reveal itself.
Start where you are
Tell me what is happening beneath the surface.
Whether you are leading a team through pressure or looking for support for yourself or your family, the first step is a straightforward conversation about what you need.