Jenica (she/her) is a visiting registered acupuncturist (R.Ac) from Vancouver Island www.passagewellness.com/

She is currently taking new Whitehorse patients, beginning in March 2025.

Jenica completed her diploma in Doctorate studies of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Kootenay Columbia College of Integrative Health Sciences in 2012. She began practicing as a Community Acupuncturist shortly after, which inspired her to use her skillset for positive social and cultural change.

Currently Jenica is on temporary leave from her private practice on Vancouver Island, on the lands of the Unceeded Coast Salish Territory as well as the lands of the Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish Peoples. She is very excited to be a visiting practitioner here in Whitehorse, where the Kwanlin Dün and Taa'an Kwächän peoples reside.

In addition to her private practice, Jenica works as a clinical assistant for Alaine Duncan’s Tao of Trauma virtual year-long certification program, which integrates theoretical and clinical concepts from Western Neuroscience with the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine in support of treating trauma survivors.

In her practice, Jenica advocates for our innate individual and collective capacity for healing and she views her role as a facilitator to support the healing of her patients. She values that each patient is an expert of their own experience, body, and needs and she strives to compassionately hold a non-judgemental space and work together with her patients to heal.