Counsellor

Jana-Lyn Bergen

MC, CCC

Works with Individuals 8+

Hi, I’m Jana-Lyn.

I’m a Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC) with a Master of Counselling degree, and I work with preteens, teens, and adults in Saskatoon.
I approach therapy relationally, with empathy, curiosity, and no judgement. My goal is to make therapy feel as comfortable and accessible as possible—because talking about the complicated stuff is hard enough without feeling like you have to impress your therapist while doing it.
I strive to create a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space for everyone. Your race, culture, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, relationship structure, background, or life experiences are all part of the person you are—and you shouldn’t have to leave those parts of yourself at the door when you come to therapy.
I love working with young people (ages 10+). I’ve spent more than a decade supporting teens and young adults, and I genuinely enjoy being invited into that sometimes hilarious, sometimes messy, often confusing stage of life where you’re figuring out who you are, what you need, and where you fit.
I also really enjoy working with adults who are navigating the complicated stuff that comes with, well… being an adult.
Maybe you’re overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, burned out, struggling in your relationships, navigating a major life transition, or simply feeling like you don’t quite feel like yourself lately. Therapy can be a space to slow things down, make sense of what’s happening, and figure out what you want moving forward.
I have experience supporting clients with concerns including:
  • Anxiety
  • Anger
  • Attachment and relationship concerns
  • ADHD
  • Body image
  • Burnout
  • Depression
  • Emotional and mood regulation
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-harm
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Stress and overwhelm
  • Life transitions
  • Coping skills
  • Trauma
My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and client-centred—but what does that actually mean?
It means I’m not there to tell you what’s wrong with you or hand you a list of things you need to fix all the while holding a clipboard, asking you “how does that make you feel?”
You’re the expert on your own life. My job is to bring the training, experience, curiosity, and therapeutic tools to help you make sense of what’s happening and figure out where you want to go from here.
Therapy with me might involve practical skills, uncomfortable conversations, making connections between your past and present, laughing at something that absolutely should not be funny, or realizing that a pattern you’ve been frustrated with actually makes a lot of sense when we understand where it came from.
I draw from Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), attachment-focused approaches, and strength-based practices, tailoring our work to you rather than expecting you to fit into one particular therapy box.
You don’t need to have everything figured out before you start therapy. You don’t even need to know exactly what’s wrong.
You just need to be willing to get curious about what’s happening and what you want to be different.
I acknowledge I live and work on Treaty 6 Territory—the traditional and ancestral land of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, Nakota, and Métis nations.