Body-Based Theraputic Counselling
My approach to counselling is relational and somatic, offering space to explore the complexity of what you are navigating at a pace that honours your nervous system and capacity. This work is grounded in presence, deep-listening, collaboration, and emotional attunement. If you are navigating grief and loss of any kind, you are welcome here. Areas of focus may include:
Grief and Loss (personal loss, parts, collective, generational)
Integration of trauma (personal, ancestral, systemic)
Family Systems Exploration, Relationships and Communication
Chronic or Life-limiting Illness, Self-Inquiry and Identity Shifts
This is not a rushed or prescriptive process. Sessions are shaped by your needs and may include reflection, emotional processing, and gentle somatic awareness.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
My Counselling Approach
Therapeutic Counselling Sessions are rooted in relationship, attunement, and respect for your inner wisdom. Rather than focusing on fixing or pathologizing, we work with what is present—creating space for insight, emotion, and the cultivation of nervous system capacity over time.
Sessions with me are relational, reflective, and embodied. I draw on Bowen Family Systems, Person-Centred, Gestalt, and Transpersonal approaches, creating space to explore patterns in your life, the beliefs that drive them, and new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Our time together is guided by your pace and priorities—you are the primary decision-maker in the direction of therapy. Sessions may include reflective dialogue, somatic awareness, and experiential exercises to deepen insight and resourcing. I invite our time together to be a collaborative process, grounded in curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore new ways of being.
Why Somatic?
In today’s world — particularly within dominant North American culture — we often move at an unsustainable pace; Francis Weller refers to this as Ascension Culture. Our days are filled with errands, appointments, family responsibilities, work, constant doing….more, more, more. Over time, this can leave us feeling burnt out, disconnected, and overwhelmed.
The counselling I offer invites you to slow down and reconnect with your inherent being-ness.
“Somatic” means relating to the body. In our work together, we intentionally cultivate deeper listening to the cues and wisdom of your body, learning the unique language it speaks.
As you attune to your bodymind and develop greater trust within your system, integration of past and present experience becomes possible. We explore embodiment practices alongside nervous system regulation tools and therapeutic approaches that support greater coherence across mind, body, and spirit.
A somatic approach can be especially supportive in grief work, as grief profoundly impacts the physical body. Within the territory of loss, there is often nothing to fix — and the immensity of that reality can feel overwhelming to the nervous system.
By slowing down and gently noticing how grief lives in the body, learning how to meet it, and gradually building a relationship with it, space opens to metabolize the layered experience of loss.
“Movement is how the body remembers itself. It is how survival shifts into recovery. It is how safety is relearned, one step, one stretch, one breath at a time.”
― Jasmin Tzortzakakis Malik, When the Body Whispers: Reclaiming Energy, Balance, and Wellbeing
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke »
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Format: Individual sessions
Receipts provided for insurance reimbursement
Services provided within the scope of practice for a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC)
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Counselling is typically offered in standard session blocks of 60 or 90 minutes.
I offer virtual and in-person sessions.
Pricing:
60 minutes, $140 + GST
90 minutes, $200 + GST
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Counselling fees for a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) are approved by Blue Cross, Green Shield Canada, ClaimSecure, SunLife and Manulife. Additional Extended Benefits may qualify for reimbursement with your Extended Health Benefits Plans or HSA.
Please consult with your human resources department or your insurance provider to determine whether your employee extended benefit plan covers therapy provided by Registered Therapeutic Counsellors (RTC) registered with the Association of Cooperative Therapeutic Counsellors of Canada (ACCT).
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A minimum notice period is required for cancellations or rescheduling. Late cancellations and missed appointments may be subject to a fee. Full policies are reviewed during booking and intake.
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This practice offers part-time one-on-one therapeutic support and does not provide 24/7 care or emergency/crisis services.
If you are in immediate danger or require urgent support, please contact emergency services or a local crisis line.
24-hour Crisis Line (Vernon BC): 1-888-353-2273
24-hour Suicide Prevention Line (Canada): 1-833-456-4566
Frequently Asked Questions
Professional note: Counselling services are provided within the scope of practice for a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor. Informed consent, confidentiality, and privacy practices are reviewed with all clients prior to beginning services.
I offer a free 20 minute complimentary consultation as an opportunity to get to know each other, discuss your unique needs and ensure that pursuing counselling support from me feels like the right fit for you.