Jenna Thiel, ASW

Jenna Thiel, ASW, is Part-Time Therapist at Golden Coast Rehab. An Associate Clinical Social Worker (ASW #135640) in California, Jenna brings clinical experience in grief, bereavement, crisis, case management, and family-systems work from an interdisciplinary hospice setting, and provides assessment, group, and individual therapy for adults.

Jenna's clinical background includes a master's-level medical social worker internship at Harbor Hospice, a 32-bed inpatient hospice facility in Houston, Texas. There she provided grief and bereavement counseling to patients and families using narrative therapy and family systems approaches, offered crisis support, and delivered case management. She took part in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings, coordinated care plans with physicians, nursing staff, and chaplaincy, documented encounters in electronic health records, and wrote a family resource guide. She also supported Spanish-speaking families with the help of interpreters and bilingual staff.

Jenna holds a Master of Social Work from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Global and Multicultural Studies and Spanish from Montana State University. She also holds a Texas LMSW license and a Certificate in EMDR Therapy Skills, with training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and addiction and recovery, and she has high-level Spanish comprehension. Jenna works in a trauma-informed way, drawing on EMDR, mind-body practices, and an Internal Family Systems-informed approach.