Dr. Jennifer S. Kennett is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, an NBCC Nationally Approved Clinical Supervisor, and a counselor-educator with more than 30 years of experience spanning private practice, public health, nonprofit, and academic settings.
She currently serves as the Education Director at Catalyst Counseling, a group practice where she oversees the training and professional development of associate-level clinicians, provides clinical supervision, and facilitates couples co-therapy training. She is also the founder of Private Practice Alchemy, supporting mental health professionals through supervision and business coaching.
Jennifer is deeply committed to the counseling profession beyond the therapy room. She currently chairs the Policy and Professional Advocacy Committee of the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association (WMHCA), where she works to strengthen the licensure and practice standards of the profession statewide. She previously served as WMHCA President from 2024 to 2025.
Her clinical approach is integrative, drawing on narrative theory, attachment-based perspectives, existential theory, and principles of neuroscience. She views the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for meaningful change, whether working directly with clients or supervising emerging clinicians.
Jennifer earned her PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision from Antioch University Seattle in 2024, where her dissertation examined supervisor competence assessment.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision, Antioch University Seattle
- Dissertation Title: Measures to Assess the Competence of Supervisors of Provisionally Licensed Mental Health Counselors
- Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- Master of Business Administration, Keller Graduate School of Management
- Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Simon Fraser University
- Masters Thesis: Perceived Parental Roles in Stepfamilies: Implications for Family Cohesion & Functioning
- Bachelor of Arts, Honors Psychology, Simon Fraser University
- Honors Project: The Relationship of Perceived Stepfamily Adjustment to Identity Development and Structure in Women
- Mary Batchelor Memorial Scholarship
- Clinical Supervision
My goal is for the classroom to be a rewarding and inspiring experience — an interactive, co-creative process that improves the quality of client care, strengthens clinical skill, and nurtures professional self-reflection and growth.
I think of learning as an intellectual playground. Not the sterile, safety-padded playgrounds of today, designed to eliminate every scrape and stumble, but the kind that once let children climb higher than seemed wise, test their own limits, and discover what they were capable of through free play and a little productive risk. That is the spirit I want in the classroom: a space where ideas can be climbed on, pushed against, and occasionally fallen from, because that is how real understanding is built.
Learning starts from a place of curiosity. In any learning space, I want students to feel encouraged to explore ideas by engaging their senses, their prior knowledge, and their emotional experience — not just their intellect. Clinical growth is not purely cognitive; it lives in the body, in memory, and in feeling, and the best learning invites all of it in.
Because I see the classroom as a co-creative space rather than a one-directional one, I always welcome feedback on how we can build a better learning experience together. The playground, after all, is shared ground — and it works best when everyone helps shape it.
- Theories of Counseling I
- Theories of Counseling II
- Pre-Internship Practicum
- Internship