Jenna Trostle (Founder)
Originally raised in New York (on Munsee Lenape land), Jenna received an BA in Environmental Studies (Honors) from Oberlin College in the USA, then moved to Australia a year later. Jenna finished a Graduate Diploma in counselling from ACAP, completed a Master’s degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Torrens University (JNI), wrote a Master’s thesis on polyamorous parenting, then moved to Melbourne shortly after graduation. Jenna is a PACFA clinical registrant, and founded Spectra Counselling at the beginning of 2018 to provide a space for people to embrace their differences and find inclusive support to be the people they want to be.
Jenna uses an integrative therapeutic approach, melding Emotionally Focused Therapy with person-centred techniques and narrative therapy to support clients in their journeys. Jenna is polyamorous and bi/pansexual, neurodivergent, anti-racist (understanding that Jenna’s white privilege means having to actively work on unlearning and challenging internalized racism as a lifelong practice) and interested in intersectional feminism, supporting GBKS (gender, body, kinship, sexuality) marginalized identities, and defending peoples’ right to embrace their differences and be themselves. Jenna leads workshops on consent and boundaries and body positivity, runs a panel on polyamory, and often helps facilitate discussions with PolyVic. Outside of therapeutic practice, Jenna creates art of various mediums, and is trying to see every waterfall in Victoria.
Past Colleagues
We are grateful to have had the following people previously support clients under the Spectra Counselling banner: