“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift”




-Robin Wall Kimmerer Potawatomi botanist, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

Taanishi- Hello!
I am Jennifer-Lee (she/ her).

I am Métis/Cree down my mom’s line and mixed European ancestry on my dad’s side. 

I belong to the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and a member of the Métis Nation of British Columbia. 

I am mother to three amazing adults whom I am forever proud and in awe of. I am also an auntie, sister, daughter, niece, cousin, partner, and friend. These relationships anchor and support me - providing me daily responsibilities, learnings and joy. 

I carry gifts and inspiration from my ancestors, Elders, many teachers, and Creation itself.

Whether it be in kinship care-counselling, consulting in Circles or one-to-one, or facilitating large groups in the exploration of our shared history on these Indigenous lands I receive support knowing they are with me. I am also grateful to the practice and moorings of Somatic Abolitionism and the years of mentorship walking and imagining alongside Dr. Resmaa Menakem. 

I hold a Masters and Bachelors of Social Work from the University of British Columbia, and registered with the BC College of Social Workers. I am an approved provider for the First Nations Health Authority. 

I am grateful to the live on the stolen occupied ancestral shared homelands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. I am committed to being here in a good way, contributing to the education and understanding of the historic and ongoing impacts of colonization and to the healing for all.

 
 
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Jennifer-Lee’s work with our organization has been and continues to be transformational.

Jennifer-Lee’s work with our organization has been and continues to be transformational. Her skills and insight have supported us individually so that collectively we can meet the needs of the people we serve.  As an Indigenous led and serving organization existing in systems that weren't made for us, it has been absolutely necessary and critical for us to do this work with her.  We have developed deeper listening skills, given more space to acknowledge difficult things, personally and structurally, and have grown stronger together.  

With deep gratitude and appreciation. 

-Leah Walker, Executive Director Kilala Lelum

I’m constantly blown away during and after my sessions with Jenlee.

I’m constantly blown away during and after my sessions with Jenlee. I feel seen and listened to authentically because we take on what’s coming up in the moment; physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.

It’s super healing for me as an Indigenous woman to work with an Indigenous woman who is reflecting on me without me needing to teach or educate on my existence as an Indigenous woman. 

But Jenlee is also a gifted healer who happens to be a therapist because she is intuitive, grounded, and skilled in working with the subtleties of emotions.

I’m so grateful for the support and guidance I receive from Jenlee as I feel it has significantly improved my well-being by having this support. 

If you have a chance to work with JenLee, then you are lucky.

-Jessica Sandhu - Coach, Yoga Teacher, Indigenous Healer, Entrepreneur 

Jennifer Lee holds a powerful space for white bodied therapists to gather and reflect.

Jennifer Lee holds a powerful space for white bodied therapists to gather and reflect. She is caring and fierce in her facilitation and offers deep insight at every gathering. Being a part of her circles is a highlight in my month and I would recommend her to anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of how to work in an effective and just way in the world.    

-Nicole Marcia , MA, MC, RCC, C-IAYT, Registered Clinical Counsellor & Yoga Therapist

As a BIPOC counsellor, working with Jenlee as my counselling supervisor has been a true blessing

As a BIPOC counsellor, working with Jenlee as my counselling supervisor has been a true blessing. I didn’t know what it could truly feel like to work through a decolonized lens—until I began working with her. With Jenlee, I’ve found a safe, non-judgmental space where human experiences are met with openness and care. I feel supported not just intellectually, but somatically, and that embodied sense of safety continues to guide me in holding space for my clients with greater grounding, compassion, and authenticity.

-Parminder Thind Registered Counsellor

The power and impact of working with Jennifer-Lee is that she is living the practice, the work alongside and with you

The power and impact of working with Jennifer-Lee is that she is living the practice, the work alongside and with you. Her leadership is in her embodied and vulnerable authenticity.  She is not trying to “teach” but more sharing her lived experience transparently and inviting others into that shared practice.  My ability to channel liberation work into my therapeutic work with clients with heart, with relationality, and with humility has been profound for my own healing and for that of my clients as well.           

-Laura Montoya Somatic Coach, SE

Being in Circle with Jennifer-Lee has felt like receiving a kind of permission I didn’t know I needed—a permission to unapologetically exist as whole.

Being in Circle with Jennifer-Lee has felt like receiving a kind of permission I didn’t know I needed—a permission to unapologetically exist as whole. As a mixed-race Indigenous woman who is often assumed to be white, I’ve learned to mask parts of myself to stay safe—to navigate racism, assumptions, and appropriation. For so long, naming my Indigeneity came with fear and the pressure to explain or ease others’ discomfort. With Jennifer-Lee, I’ve experienced what it feels like to be witnessed without needing to apologize, justify, or translate. Our conversations return me to something deeper than identity—there is room to reconnect to Land and ancestors in a way I don’t have to earn, prove, or explain. The experience is one of remembering wholeness through truth, kinship, pain and laughter. It’s the most potent medicine in these times. 

— Dr Chelsea Laboucane Williams - PsyD Mixed European and cree (nehiyaw) Métis

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Jennifer-Lee’s work with our organization has been and continues to be transformational.

Jennifer-Lee’s work with our organization has been and continues to be transformational. Her skills and insight have supported us individually so that collectively we can meet the needs of the people we serve.  As an Indigenous led and serving organization existing in systems that weren't made for us, it has been absolutely necessary and critical for us to do this work with her.  We have developed deeper listening skills, given more space to acknowledge difficult things, personally and structurally, and have grown stronger together.  

With deep gratitude and appreciation. 

-Leah Walker, Executive Director Kilala Lelum

I’m constantly blown away during and after my sessions with Jenlee.

I’m constantly blown away during and after my sessions with Jenlee. I feel seen and listened to authentically because we take on what’s coming up in the moment; physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.

It’s super healing for me as an Indigenous woman to work with an Indigenous woman who is reflecting on me without me needing to teach or educate on my existence as an Indigenous woman. 

But Jenlee is also a gifted healer who happens to be a therapist because she is intuitive, grounded, and skilled in working with the subtleties of emotions.

I’m so grateful for the support and guidance I receive from Jenlee as I feel it has significantly improved my well-being by having this support. 

If you have a chance to work with JenLee, then you are lucky.

-Jessica Sandhu - Coach, Yoga Teacher, Indigenous Healer, Entrepreneur 

Jennifer Lee holds a powerful space for white bodied therapists to gather and reflect.

Jennifer Lee holds a powerful space for white bodied therapists to gather and reflect. She is caring and fierce in her facilitation and offers deep insight at every gathering. Being a part of her circles is a highlight in my month and I would recommend her to anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of how to work in an effective and just way in the world.    

-Nicole Marcia , MA, MC, RCC, C-IAYT, Registered Clinical Counsellor & Yoga Therapist

As a BIPOC counsellor, working with Jenlee as my counselling supervisor has been a true blessing

As a BIPOC counsellor, working with Jenlee as my counselling supervisor has been a true blessing. I didn’t know what it could truly feel like to work through a decolonized lens—until I began working with her. With Jenlee, I’ve found a safe, non-judgmental space where human experiences are met with openness and care. I feel supported not just intellectually, but somatically, and that embodied sense of safety continues to guide me in holding space for my clients with greater grounding, compassion, and authenticity.

-Parminder Thind Registered Counsellor

The power and impact of working with Jennifer-Lee is that she is living the practice, the work alongside and with you

The power and impact of working with Jennifer-Lee is that she is living the practice, the work alongside and with you. Her leadership is in her embodied and vulnerable authenticity.  She is not trying to “teach” but more sharing her lived experience transparently and inviting others into that shared practice.  My ability to channel liberation work into my therapeutic work with clients with heart, with relationality, and with humility has been profound for my own healing and for that of my clients as well.           

-Laura Montoya Somatic Coach, SE

Being in Circle with Jennifer-Lee has felt like receiving a kind of permission I didn’t know I needed—a permission to unapologetically exist as whole.

Being in Circle with Jennifer-Lee has felt like receiving a kind of permission I didn’t know I needed—a permission to unapologetically exist as whole. As a mixed-race Indigenous woman who is often assumed to be white, I’ve learned to mask parts of myself to stay safe—to navigate racism, assumptions, and appropriation. For so long, naming my Indigeneity came with fear and the pressure to explain or ease others’ discomfort. With Jennifer-Lee, I’ve experienced what it feels like to be witnessed without needing to apologize, justify, or translate. Our conversations return me to something deeper than identity—there is room to reconnect to Land and ancestors in a way I don’t have to earn, prove, or explain. The experience is one of remembering wholeness through truth, kinship, pain and laughter. It’s the most potent medicine in these times. 

— Dr Chelsea Laboucane Williams - PsyD Mixed European and cree (nehiyaw) Métis

 

Consulting One to One and Circles

By design our current society moves with urgency. Our education and training all reinforce the messages of productivity and speed. In this conditioning we have learned to deliver and move quickly and often feel like there are no other options. Together, we will practise slowing down and compassionately care for the discomfort of BEING in the slow. We will explore and notice how the push ‘to fix’, ‘to know’,  ‘to advise’, ‘to diagnose’ gets in the way of being our fullest selves and severs our connection to wisdom - this push impacts us as the carers and those we care for.

Liberation practice requires the unlearning of hierarchical, direction driven relationships as the norm and invites turning towards ourselves with softness and curiosity, creating space for something more to be imagined.  

You are not alone - we have all come through and exist in these systems that harm and oppress. Wisdom is within each of us, let’s create the space to experience the possibilities. 

Whether you are a therapist, social worker, psychologist or someone who wants to explore liberation from these pressures I want to connect with you and build the society our future generations can thrive in. 

 
 
 

Kinship Care- Counselling

“Trauma decontextualized in a person looks like personality. Trauma decontextualized in a family looks like family traits. Trauma in a people looks like culture.”
-Dr. Resmaa Menakem

Alongside Indigenous kin I support the remembering of who you are and invite gentle curiosity for who you wish to be.  Caring for the harms of colonization- historically, intergenerationally and personally, we will deepen connections to the ways you know how to be well - while putting down the ways that no longer serve. In a world shaped by white supremacy and colonial policies it is courageous to take the steps towards your fullness and liberation. You are not alone. 

I am grateful to walk with you in this journey to provide therapeutic guidance and kinship care. 

 
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I've had the honour of working with and receiving teachings and clinical consultation from Jennifer-Lee and feel blessed to call her a mentor and friend.

Not only have I been a participant of the Anti-Indigenous Racism Training, I have also recommended it to colleagues, family and friends. Jennifer-Lee, along with her co-facilitators, brings a level of depth and authentic storytelling to the issues of colonization, discrimination and reconciliation that should not be missed. I have also learned from Jennifer-Lee in the courses she's led with Resmaa Menakem that have helped me to metabolize the pain of white supremacy. Some of the powerful lessons that I've learned from Jennifer-Lee is to find my voice and to have the felt sense that my ancestors' resiliency lives deep inside of me.  

-Ly Hoang; RCC, School Counsellor 

While on this path of unlearning & relearning, the value of cultivating a community to support offering this work in relational and justice-oriented ways is important to me.

Exploring this with Jen-Lee over the years has helped me reconnect to an inner trust and wisdom that feels transformative to howI work and who I choose to be within that. I'm deeply grateful. 

-Nashina Merani Miranda
South Asian Relational Trauma & Somatic Focused Therapist

Jennifer Lee carries the strength of her lineage & holds beautiful relational space in Circle as well as 1:1.

Her presence is warmth-filled, fierce & wise. As a person & therapist who lives in a white body, I feel deeply grateful to be in liberatory practice with her guidance & clear seeing. It has been invaluable to my own personal & professional accountability & reckoning with historic, current & ongoing impacts of colonialism, as well as working to disrupt oppression. 

-Kim Fleming MSW, RSW

My time with Jen-Lee has been transformational. She has helped me take the concept of "allyship" and interrogate it, turn it inside out, and look at it from all angles.

It is not always comfortable and this is the point - growth is not meant to be cozy and comfortable! 

My journey with Jennifer-Lee continues to deepen my understanding of myself and the ways in which I have been shaped by white supremacy and colonialism. This has made my therapeutic practice more inclusive, holistic, and connected to community and spirit. 

If you are a white settler and in the "helping" professions, I would highly recommend one-on-one work with Jennifer-Lee to deepen your understanding of the ways white bodies can cause harm in therapeutic spaces, and to develop tools to address these harms.

Jen Lee's groups are wonderful ways to connect with others "in the work" to deepen our practices and experience solidarity.  

-Jenny M, RCC

Jennifer-Lee has a gift for inviting and supporting folks in the work of responsibility and liberation practices.

She is warm, caring and fierce. Since 2021 I have been working alongside Jennifer-Lee facilitating Somatic Abolitionism and I love working with her. I am grateful to call her kin.    

-Dr. Resmaa Menakem
Healer, Author, and Founder of Somatic Abolitionism

Jenlee is a powerful and compassionate facilitator.

She embodies the wisdom of her ancestors and elders, which she channels through her steady, loving presence. As a facilitator Jenlee is able to hold a mirror up while reminding us of our humanity and the healing that is possible. It is always an honor to hold space with Jenlee and to learn from her deep well of truth. 

-Ja Young Ahn-Williams,
Transformational Coach and Facilitator

Participating in Circle with Jennifer-Lee has been a powerful invitation to show up authentically and practice embodied ways of being.

Through her facilitation, we engage in co-creation, softening, and expanding—allowing shared threads of experience and collective wisdom to emerge naturally. Jennifer-Lee holds space with deep love and kindness, grounded in a firm commitment to accountability. This creates the conditions for meaningful repair and transformation.

Her presence invites a slowing down, encouraging us to be in genuine relationship with ourselves and each other. There is space for what is—without judgment—nurturing compassion, tenderness, and connection. In this sacred environment, healing becomes not only possible but deeply felt, both individually and collectively.       

-Megan Lukasewich

JenLee embodies being in honest , generous relationship - naming what is true and also supporting the dreaming into what is possible.

She offers support for “turning toward” ourselves as well as encourages awareness and compassion for when we “turn on” ourselves or another. Being in circle or 1:1 with her, you absolutely sense the power of her Spirit and her ancestors.                       

- jo’cai bath, LMFT

Jenlee is patience and strength personified.

Her wisdom, guidance, and inner peace is exactly what I was seeking to help support me on my anti-racist journey both as a registered psychologist in my professional life, but also in my own personal life as a mother, wife, daughter, cousin, aunty and human." 

-Katherine Martinez, Psy.D., R.Psych

I highly recommend Jennifer-Lee Koble as a facilitator and group leader.

Her skills in facilitating tough discussions and creating space for compassionate self-reflection are most needed in these challenging times. Incorporating cultural wisdom and self-awareness of bodily stress and resources, Jennifer-Lee creates the type of communal connection and personal growth opportunities that can help people navigate life in 2025 and beyond.  

-Heliana Ramirez, PhD, LISW, RSW

I gained great benefit from attending the circle. It was incredibly supportive and a safe place to land amidst all the yuck that happens daily in this world of colonisation.

It helped me to slow down, become more conscious of roles and expectations  from colonisation/capitalism/patriarchy and begin the process of letting them go. Jennifer-Lee is a skilled facilitator who held space with warmth and wisdom. I would notice immediately how it improved not only my experiences in helping my clients but my relationships in all areas of my life.  I recommend her circles to everyone!    

-Diana Kollar
M.A., Registered Clinical Counsellor
Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist and Certified Relational Life Therapist

I am deeply grateful for Jennifer-Lee’s clear and compassionate relational capacity.

Her reflections are uniquely generative, allowing me to connect with truth, uncover what needs tending and re-member the essence of who I am.      

-Hawley Winter
White Body Therapist

It is difficult to put into words the impact Jennifer-Lee's wisdom, guidance, and generosity of heart has had on my capacity to open my awareness and heart to explore the hard truths of how colonization has lived inside all parts of me, as a white bodied woman.

Through the welcoming circles Jennifer-Lee creates, I am gifted with a safe space to keep learning and practicing how to show up responsibly and respectfully as a white body in this world and hopefully begin a new conversation that allows space for healing and new possibilities.

-Danielle Schroeder, RCC, MA

She is one of the people I admire most for her incredibly high integrity, kindness, and intelligent approach to life.

Jennifer-Lee  has the lived experience of being Indigenous and she is one of the people I admire most for her incredibly high integrity, kindness, and intelligent approach to life. She is extremely knowledgeable, yet always furthering her education about anti-Indigenous racism and related topics. She is an excellent therapist and facilitator with many years experience. 


-Elder Mahara Allbrett, Tsleil-Waututh Nation

“Strong communities are born out of individuals being their best selves.”




-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and academic

Anti-Indigenous Racism Workshops

‘“Reconciliation is neither comfortable nor convenient, and it shouldn’t be.”
— Christi Belcourt Michif, visual artist, designer, community organizer, environmentalist, social justice advocate, and avid land-based arts and language learner.

 
 

Join us in learning how to be in the discomfort and noticing the ways colonial policies and history-telling encourages us to look away. Our hearts and bodies know and feel the injustice; we all long for healing. 

Together we will explore our responsibilities in this journey.