meet Jen Welo

Jen is a pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working toward licensure and Independent Contractor.

 Jen supports couples, intimate partners, families, and individuals build stronger, more connected relationships. With a warm and direct approach, she works with clients to explore patterns and improve communication, often unearthing what is longing to be said. Jen believes healing isn't linear and happens at our own pace, with ups and downs along the way. She focuses on the importance of self-compassion, humor, and slowing down in the journey for change.

Jen welcomes all relationship structures and supports LGBTQIA2S+ folks. She works from a systemic lens, using family systems, attachment theory, ritual, art, and more. Jen tends to work with folks experiencing anxiety, sexual concerns, creative blocks, spirituality, and life changes.

Jen works under the supervision of Samantha Colai. Outside work, she enjoys eating good food, reading, solving puzzles, and jumping in cold lakes.

Areas of interest:

  • Life Transitions

  • Women’s Issues

  • Sexuality

  • Pre-Marital Counseling

  • Couples Issues

  • Family Therapy

Contact Jen

Phone: (612) 682-0838

Email: jen@hoperisingfamilyservices.com

Fax: 612-439-8907

Training and Experience:

  • Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1

  • K-12 Licensed Visual Arts Teacher

  • Masters in Education from Augsburg University

  • 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Availability

  • Tuesday and Thursday in person

Accepted Insurance

  • Aetna

  • Blue Cross/Blue Shield

  • Health Partners

  • Medical Assistance

  • Preferred One

  • UCare

  • Also offers a private pay option

*Does not accept Optum/Medica/United Healthcare/United Behavioral Health

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”

-Mary Oliver