Counselling & Psychotherapy

Mental health is an essential part of wellness.

Counselling and psychotherapy can support your personal development and growth by offering support and a context respond to better understand and integrate your particular circumstances and challenges.

The journey of walking a path with a counsellor can support you in:

integrating and processing anxiety
low mood &depression
grief & loss
trauma, PTSD
relationship and attachment challenges
stress/burnout
addiction
life transitions
navigating health challenges
disconnection from self and the natural world

Our practitioners help you recognize and build on the strides you’ve already made in your life’s journey while helping you develop more skills to navigate the challenges.

Our counselling services are informed by research and practice in wholeness-focused, trauma-informed, somatic/body-oriented, mindfulness-based, and nature connected approaches.

We’ve been very thoughtful about curating our counselling team, because we understand finding the right fit is essential when working with a practitioner. If you are unsure whether a practitioner is the right fit for you, we invite you to book a free Complimentary Meet & Greet or give us a call to learn more!

Counselling & Psychotherapy Salt Spring Island

Counselling & Psychotherapy Salt Spring Island, Naturopathic doctor

The Process

Initial Session

The 75 minute first visit explores the intentions and primary challenges that brought you to counselling, your mental health history, as well as exploring relevant areas such as lifestyle, family history, and past and present relationships that may be impacting your well-being. This visit always involves reviewing informed consent as well as discussing ideas and co-creating a plan for next steps.

Subsequent sessions

May be 60 or 90 minutes in length. A counselling relationship can be from one to many sessions over years long, depending on your needs and goals. For your first time in counselling we recommend you anticipate 4-5 sessions over a few months.

Relationship Counselling

With the support of your counsellor, you will explore the concerns and questions that brought you and your partner(s) to counselling, counselling/mental health history, as well as exploring relevant areas such as lifestyle, family history, and past and present relationships that may be impacting your current relationship. This visit also involves reviewing informed consent and discussing ideas for next steps. Relationship counselling visits can be booked for romantic partners, business partners, parent/child, or other relationships. This visit can accommodate up to three people (and, please notify us if you anticipate bringing three so we can ensure we have enough space and chairs to accommodate this visit). Note: Please book your visit under the account of the client whose name you'd prefer on the invoice.

Nature-based sessions

subsequent visits may be nature-based sessions if you feel this would be comfortable and supportive for you. Nature-based sessions offer unique benefits in a counselling experience. We invite you to discuss with your counsellor whether this is right for you.