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).

Email: dr.jennifer@rideauviewclinic.ca

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,

  • trauma and dissociation,

  • life transitions,

  • parenting struggles,

  • performance blocks, and

  • 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 shock, stress and reactive patterns, and to increase integration. This work promotes clients’ well-being and supports new possibilities - at home, work, in relationships, as parents, in performance, and sport.

I use an integrative approach that is grounded in science. I endeavour to provide the optimal conditions - attunement, curiosity, openness, non-judgmental awareness - to harness the wisdom and healing orientation of our embodied brains.

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

  • Interpersonal Neurobiology (Dr. Daniel J. Siegel)

  • Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR, Level 1 & 2)

  • Brainspotting Therapy (Phases 1 through 4; Master Class; Expansion; Brainspotting & Integrative Sport Medicine; Brainspotting for Addiction; BSP Intensive with Roby Abeles; Canadian Consultant Training)

  • F.L.O.W. Model Master Program (Brainspotting specialty training to enhance performance with Ruth Chiles and Dr. Alessia Bruno)

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

  • Rhythms of Regulation: Polyvagal Theory & Applications in Therapy (Deb Dana)

  • Emotion-Focused Therapy (Levels 1 & 2, Dr. Leslie Greenberg)

  • Circle of Security Parenting (COS-P)

  • Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)

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

  • Structural Model of Dissociation

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Mindfulness meditation

I have worked extensively with complex developmental trauma, and the many ways it both impacts a person and has required adaptations (e.g., dissociation, addictions) to the environment that were brilliant and lifesaving, but no longer fit current realities, and/or are causing ongoing suffering.

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. I also have the honour of assisting Ruth Chiles in her North American FLOW model training, which applies Brainspotting to performance.

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. 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.