You deserve
a space to
feel safe.
If you're navigating anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship challenges, or life transitions, therapy can offer a supportive space to better understand your experiences and build practical tools for change. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and tailored to your unique needs.
Jelena Mlinarevic,
BA, MSW, RSW
Jelena is a Registered Social Worker who has spent years supporting individuals across a variety of clinical and community settings. Through this experience, she has worked with people navigating a wide range of mental health, emotional, and life challenges, developing a compassionate and practical approach to care. She provides counselling services to adults (18+) in Saskatoon through in-person, phone, and secure virtual sessions, and throughout Saskatchewan through phone and virtual counselling.
Jelena offers a warm, professional, and thoughtfully held therapeutic space where clients can explore challenges, build insight, and move toward meaningful change. Her practice is grounded in dignity, respect, collaboration, and person-centred care. She takes a holistic approach, recognizing the impact that relationships, life experiences, environments, and systemic factors can have on wellbeing. She works alongside clients to identify strengths, build resilience, and develop practical strategies that support long-term growth.
Areas of
support
Tailored individual counselling for adults 18+
Anxiety & Stress
Support for overwhelm, racing thoughts, burnout, panic, and ongoing stress. Together, we work on understanding triggers, calming the nervous system, and building practical tools to feel more grounded in daily life.
Depression & Low Mood
Support for feelings of hopelessness, low motivation, disconnection, and emotional heaviness. Therapy can help you better understand what you're experiencing, rebuild routines, strengthen coping, and reconnect with meaning and yourself.
Trauma & Healing
Gentle, trauma-informed care to process painful experiences, build emotional safety, and support nervous system regulation at a pace that feels manageable and respectful.
Grief & Transitions
Support through loss, change, uncertainty, and major life adjustments. This may include grief, identity shifts, relationship changes, career stress, or navigating a new chapter in life.
Relationships & Boundaries
Support with communication, conflict, people-pleasing, attachment patterns, and setting healthier boundaries in relationships while staying connected to your own needs and values.
Couples Counselling
Supportive counselling for both partners together — improving communication, working through conflict, rebuilding trust, and reconnecting at a pace that works for both of you.
Self-Esteem & Growth
Support in strengthening confidence, self-worth, identity, and self-compassion. Therapy can help you challenge critical self-talk and build a more grounded connection with yourself.
Coping Skills & Regulation
Practical tools to manage emotions, stress, triggers, and daily challenges. This may include grounding skills, mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and adaptive coping strategies.
Virtual & Phone
Secure video and phone sessions available across Saskatchewan.
Insurance & Funding
Approved for Victim Services, NIHB, and most insurance providers.
Taking the first step
is the hardest part.
Book a free 15-minute consultation to discuss what brings you in, ask questions, and see whether my approach feels like the right fit for your needs.
Have questions?
I'd love to hear from you.
"You don't have to have it all figured out,
support starts here."
Honouring the land
and its peoples
Jelena Counselling Services acknowledges that Saskatchewan is located on the traditional territories of First Nations and Métis peoples. We honour the histories, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous communities and recognize the ongoing impacts of colonization. We are committed to continued learning and to supporting Truth and Reconciliation in ways that are meaningful, respectful, and grounded in care. Our practice is guided by a commitment to providing a safe, inclusive, and culturally respectful space for all.
