Who We Help
Empower yourself to thrive
We believe that for people to change, heal, and thrive, they need to be treated with empathy and compassion. We want to help support people with strategies, tools and/or overall healing.
Our goal is to utilize a client’s strengths and resources within a collaborative approach. We support our clients to define their goals for therapy while also providing recommendations after assessing a client’s history and present-day issues.
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EMDR
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy
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Mindfulness techniques
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Attachment-based approach
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Solution-focused strategies
Repair, rebuild, & renew your relationship
Face-to-face marriage and couple counselling sessions are scheduled on a weekly to bi-weekly schedule. The first treatment goal is restoring the marriage or couple friendship. You will learn how to calm yourself and your partner before your emotions hijack you and ruin any chance of a productive discussion. Some areas we will address...
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Communication
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Conflict resolution
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Addiction
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Depression and/or anxiety
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Infidelity
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Relationship with in-laws
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Compulsive internet use
Enrich your family unit
Family counselling is done in a supportive environment to help with parenting challenges, family stress, adjustment to separation, divorce, blended family struggles, challenges with in-laws/extended family, and changes along the stages of life for your children and/or teenager. We are here to provide education, tools and strategies in a collaborative relationship. You may learn the following:
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Find different ways to cope with family stress
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Develop different options to solve problems
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Learn how to improve your relationships and connections with others in your family.
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Receive information and resources that you can utilize at home.
Helping children navigate challenges
We assess your child’s presenting concerns by assessing his/her history, developmental stage, strengths and the child or youth’s interests. We work in consultation with the parents or guardians as the attachment relationship is integral in the healing and change process. We utilize the following therapeutic methods with children and youth:
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Play therapy
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Sand tray therapy
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Theraplay or parent/child therapy
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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Integrative Attachment Trauma Protocol that utilizes attachment strategies, sand tray therapy, play therapy, and EMDR.
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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
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Mindfulness Strategies
Seek spiritual clarity and direction
provide counselling services to the individual, marital couples, the family and the community. We seek the wisdom of God through His Holy Scriptures. Our goal is to bring hope, psychological, emotional, and healing while using clinical skills and techniques that are effective. Christian counselling is based upon professional counselling expertise in which the Therapist partners with distressed people while utilizing Scriptural wisdom and prayer with the goal of assisting healing and living in fellowship with God and His people.
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Navigate family challenges with grace, compassion, and Scriptural truth
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Seek spiritual clarity and direction during times of uncertainty
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Process grief, trauma, or loss with a Christ-centered approach
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Address anxiety, depression, or emotional wounds through faith-integrated therapy
We're here to help
Virtual counselling provides accessibility whether you are local, national, or international. We are here for you. Please reach out at 519-281-1845 to our Intake Coordinator. She will connect you with the right therapist.
We are excited to be able to provide you with online counselling during this time. There are a number of benefits to online counselling.
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Comfort of Home
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Anonymous
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Flexibility
Therapies
What does Christian counseling help with?
In Christian counselling, the therapist is not only clinically trained but also integrates prayer, Scripture, and spiritual insight, helping clients draw closer to God while working through life’s struggles.
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Links spiritual Christian wisdom with science and research
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Holistically connects the nervous system and body (physical) and mind (mental) with the soul (spiritual)
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Therapist and client engage in therapy from a shared Christian worldview and value system
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Respects the centrality of Christianity in the client’s life while incorporating evidence-based science
What is emotionally focused individual therapy?
EFIT is a type of individual therapy based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), originally created for couples. It focuses on helping individuals understand their emotional experiences, heal from past wounds, and build secure connections — with themselves and others.
EFIT is grounded in attachment theory, which teaches that feeling safe, seen, and supported is essential for emotional health.
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Goes beyond how one logically understands their past to access how they truly feel about it
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Validates ways of understanding one’s thoughts feelings that otherwise don’t “make sense”
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Heals wounding from treatment by people in one’s past to allow for forgiveness and letting go
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Resolves guilt and shame from how one treated other people in the past
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Promotes empathy for self and others
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Establishes feelings of trust and safety in interpersonal relationships
What is emotionally focused couples therapy?
EFCT is a structured, evidence-based form of couples therapy that focuses on building emotional connection and improving communication. It helps couples identify and shift negative patterns that keep them stuck in conflict, disconnection, or hurt.
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Rooted in attachment theory research that undergirds understanding of what makes relationships work
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Goes beyond surface “content” issues to the emotional “process” issues at the root of couple struggles
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Promotes healthy dialogue in a couple
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Creates a safe space for partners to talk about themselves
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Promotes understanding of each partner’s experiential reality
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Allows for the discussion of day-to-day issues from a base of safety and trust in the partner
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Connects present relational hurts to other people in each partner’s past
What is eye movement desensitization & reprocessing?
EMDR is a type of therapy that helps people heal from trauma, distressing memories, and emotional pain. It works by helping the brain reprocess painful experiences so they no longer feel as overwhelming.
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation — usually eye movements, tapping, or sounds — to help the brain "unstick" from trauma and process memories in a healthier way.
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Employs the most well-researched form of trauma therapy
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Targets the trauma that is at the root of present-day mental health troubles
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Helps the client come up with their own healing answers
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Promotes actual physical change in the wiring of the brain towards health
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Desensitizes triggers and upsetting memories so that they are no longer triggering
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Allows a different way of thinking of past upsetting events
What is dialectical behavior therapy
DBT is a type of therapy that helps people manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and cope with distress in healthier ways. It’s especially helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by their emotions or who struggle with impulsive behaviors.
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Teaches skills to manage difficult emotions and situations
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Helps find a balance between extreme ways of thinking and being
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Promotes mindfulness
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Helps navigate interpersonal relationships more effectively
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Emphasizes positive thinking
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Helps to creatively come up with ways of feeling good
What is cognitive behavior therapy
CBT is a type of talk therapy that helps people understand the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. It’s based on the idea that negative thinking patterns can lead to emotional distress and unhelpful behaviours — and that by changing those thoughts, we can feel better and act more effectively.
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Identifies ways of thinking leading to a negative view of self
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Teaches skills to interrupt unhelpful ways of thinking and turn them into more helpful thought patterns
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Reduces depression by promoting a more positive view of self and the world
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Reduces anxiety by reducing fear associated with unhelpful thoughts
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Reduces stress by challenging the distortions in thought that exacerbate the stress
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Allows for a clearer and more accurate view of self and the world
What is emotionally focused family therapy?
EFFT is a therapy model designed to help families strengthen emotional bonds, improve communication, and heal relational wounds. It's based on the principles of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment theory, which highlight the importance of feeling emotionally safe, supported, and connected within the family system.
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Creates a safe space for each member of the family to share their perspective
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Helps each member of the family to see the others’ experiential realities and to be seen
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Connects present issues to past hurts arising from within and outside the family
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Restores proper, healthy relationship dynamics between parents, siblings, and children
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Restructures relationships within the family to operate in a more healthy way
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Brings unspoken fears and feelings to mutual awareness
Integrative attachment EMDR
Integrative Attachment EMDR Therapy is a specialized form of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) that focuses on healing early attachment wounds and trauma.
While standard EMDR helps people process traumatic memories, this integrative approach also addresses deep emotional needs related to attachment — such as safety, trust, and connection — which often form in childhood and shape how we relate to others as adults.
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Combines attachment theory with EMDR to effectively heal relational trauma
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Especially suited for healing trauma connected to parental figures
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Helps one to experience the feeling of connection that was missing in childhood
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Promotes a feeling of safety in one’s present environment
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Leads to more safety and more feeling of comfort in interpersonal relationships
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Increases ability to trust self and others
What is internal family systems therapy?
FS Therapy is a gentle, powerful approach to healing that helps people understand and work with the different “parts” of themselves — like the inner critic, the protector, or the wounded child. It’s based on the idea that we all have an inner system of parts, and that every part has a purpose, even if it’s causing distress.
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Increases awareness of the existence of hidden parts of self
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Promotes wholeness through the integration of rejected parts back into the self
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Validates the experiences that led to the isolation of parts of self
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Reduces shame associated with certain parts of self
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Allows for the greater expression of one’s true self
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Gives language to name and describe parts that are often experienced
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Welcomes and organizes the various parts of self into a cohesive whole
What is the Gottman Method?
The Gottman Method is a research-based approach to couples therapy, developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. It focuses on strengthening relationships by improving communication, deepening connection, and helping couples manage conflict in healthy ways.
The method is grounded in over 40 years of scientific research on what makes relationships succeed or fail.
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Promotes a more comprehensive understanding of who one’s partner is as a person
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Teaches skills to promote more effective dialogue and avoid relational pitfalls
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Promotes expression of self in a way that is not experienced as personally attacking or threatening
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Establishes a culture of positivity and appreciation in the couple relationship
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Promotes cooperation and a sense of unity in dealing with day-to-day issues
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Teaches skills for effective conflict resolution
What is compassion focused therapy
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) is a therapeutic approach designed to help people who struggle with shame, self-criticism, or feelings of unworthiness. It focuses on developing compassion for yourself and others as a way to promote healing and emotional well-being.
CFT blends techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and neuroscience with a deep emphasis on kindness, warmth, and acceptance.
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Encourages compassion towards self and others
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Fosters experience of self and others in a non-judgmental way
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Increases feelings of safety, trust, and acceptance of self and others
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Reduces feelings of shame, rejection, and self-criticism
What does Solution Focused Therapy?
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) is a short-term, goal-oriented therapy approach that focuses on what’s working and how to move forward, rather than spending a lot of time exploring the problem. It helps individuals, couples, or families identify their strengths, set goals, and build solutions based on their own resources.
SFT is based on the idea that you don’t have to understand every detail of a problem to start creating positive change.
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Focuses on specific present-day problems and goals
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Encourages creative thinking about current issues
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Restores a sense of hope with regards to present dilemmas
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Increases awareness of the tools and resources at one’s disposal
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Concretizes problems and solutions
What is Somatic Psychotherapy?
Somatic Psychotherapy is a body-centered approach to therapy that recognizes the deep connection between the mind, body, and emotions. It helps people become more aware of how stress, trauma, and emotions are stored in the body, and how physical sensations can guide healing.
“Soma” means body, and somatic therapy works with both talk and body-based techniques to help people process and release stuck emotions and trauma.
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Increases awareness of feelings in the body
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Releases trauma stored in the body, located beyond conscious awareness
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Reduces physical pain or discomfort by treating the trauma at its root
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Connects body feelings with emotions and thoughts
What is Theraplay?
Theraplay is a child and family therapy approach that focuses on building healthy, secure attachments between children and their caregivers. It uses playful, structured, and nurturing activities to strengthen connection, increase trust, and support emotional regulation.
Based on principles of attachment theory, Theraplay is especially helpful for children who have experienced trauma, loss, or disruptions in bonding, and it actively involves parents or caregivers in the healing process.
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Strengthens the bond between parent and child
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Couches the “work” of therapy in fun and play
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Builds a greater sense of trust, safety, and self-esteem
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Helps parent and child to enjoy each other more
What is Play & Sand Tray Therapy?
Play Therapy and Sand Tray Therapy are creative, non-verbal forms of therapy that allow children (and sometimes teens and adults) to express thoughts, emotions, and experiences through play and symbolism — especially when words are hard to find.
These approaches are especially helpful for processing trauma, grief, or complex emotions in a gentle and developmentally appropriate way.
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Play Therapy uses toys, games, drawing, and storytelling as tools for emotional expression and healing.
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Sand Tray Therapy involves creating scenes in a tray of sand using miniature figures, symbols, and objects, allowing a person to externalize their inner world in a safe, symbolic way.
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Provides age-appropriate therapy for younger clients
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Allows for the creative expression of self
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Powerfully communicates distressing past experiences that are otherwise “hard to describe”
What is Premarital Counseling?
Premarital Counselling is a type of therapy designed to help engaged or seriously dating couples prepare for marriage by building a strong foundation for a healthy, lasting relationship. It gives couples the tools to understand each other more deeply, strengthen communication, and navigate challenges before they arise.
In Christian settings, premarital counselling also invites couples to align their relationship with biblical values, seeking God’s guidance and purpose for their union.
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Identifies and tackles current issues in the relationship before they worsen
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Prepares the couple for married life
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Teaches skills to pre-emptively address anticipated difficulties in the relationship
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Strengthens the emotional feeling of connection before marriage
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Lays the foundation for a new home marked by positivity and appreciation
What is Polyvagal Informed Therapy?
Polyvagal Informed Therapy is an approach to therapy that is based on the Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges. This theory explains how our nervous system reacts to stress, danger, and safety, and how these responses impact our emotions, relationships, and behaviors.
In therapy, a polyvagal-informed approach helps clients understand their nervous system, recognize when they’re stuck in survival states (like fight, flight, or freeze), and learn how to return to a place of calm, connection, and safety.
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Helps maintain control of self in a stressful situation
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Increases awareness of feelings in the body
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Helps to effectively navigate situations where one feels threatened or attacked
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Re-establishes feelings of safety in the midst of intense emotions
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Validates the body’s survival mechanism, reducing shame and guilt
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Connects overwhelming experiences in the present with one’s past
Specializations
What is depression?
Depression is a mood disorder that can vary from mild to severe. It is most commonly associated with feelings of sadness, but can also include many other changes in how one experiences their day-to-day life. People suffering from depression may also experience anxiety, anger, thoughts of death or suicide, decreased energy, loss of interest in previously enjoyable activities, and changes in eating or sleeping patterns.
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Helps you understand the root causes of your feelings
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Teaches healthy ways to cope with stress and sadness
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Offers a safe, judgment-free space to talk
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Builds tools to manage negative thoughts
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Helps process difficult emotions like grief, guilt, or anger
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Encourages small, realistic steps toward feeling better
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Provides consistent support so you don’t feel alone
What is bullying?
Bullying is an experience of ongoing, persistent, repeated attempts where one intends to cause harm through physical, verbal, or social means. Bullying can be done by one person or by a group towards another person or another group. The bully intends to gain and maintain power and control over the bullied through repeated hurtful actions.
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Provides a safe space to talk about your experiences without fear or judgment
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Helps process feelings of fear, shame, anger, sadness, or isolation
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Builds self-esteem and confidence that may have been damaged by bullying
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Teaches coping skills to manage anxiety, depression, or stress
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Improves assertiveness and communication to respond to bullying effectively
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Supports healing from trauma related to long-term or repeated bullying
What is attachment repair?
Attachment theory powerfully explains the foundation for a strong relationship and is backed by more than 50 years of research. The effects of a strong (or weak) attachment begin in childhood and can carry into adulthood. The attachment relationship between two people can undergo a felt break when one feels hurt by the other. This break necessitates an attachment repair to restore the relationship.
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Helps you understand your attachment style and how it affects relationships
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Explores early life experiences that may have shaped trust, connection, or emotional security
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Teaches tools to build healthy, secure relationships in adulthood
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Supports healing from past relational wounds, including neglect, abandonment, or inconsistent care
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Helps develop emotional regulation skills to manage fear, anxiety, or clinginess in relationships
What is Christian counseling?
Christian counselling can be varied in the degree to which Christianity is integrated in the counselling experience. It can take the form of discussing faith and Christianity in the context of daily presenting concerns or, conversely, the integration of Scripture alongside “secular” evidence-based treatment.
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Integrates Biblical wisdom and prayer alongside therapeutic techniques for holistic healing
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Offers spiritual support to help you grow in faith and trust in God during challenging times
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Helps navigate life struggles with faith-based guidance, bringing clarity and peace
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Supports emotional healing through the power of Scripture and spiritual reflection
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Teaches practical tools for coping with stress, anxiety, and life’s difficulties grounded in Christian values
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Helps restore relationships by incorporating forgiveness, grace, and communication principles from the Bible
What is spiritual abuse & religious trauma?
Spiritual and religious trauma can often arise from church or other faith-based environments where one experiences coercion, manipulation, or indoctrination into a certain set of beliefs. Spiritual and religious trauma can affect all dimensions of a person: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. It can lead to feelings of lack of safety, an inability to trust people or God, fear, shame, guilt, and flashbacks. While spiritual and religious trauma is not a formal diagnosis, it can lead to a variety of other mental health issues and needs to be taken seriously.
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Provides a safe space to explore painful spiritual experiences without judgment
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Helps process feelings of guilt, shame, or fear associated with past religious experiences
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Explores unhealthy or harmful beliefs that may have been instilled in religious settings
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Supports healing from spiritual abuse or experiences of manipulation within religious communities
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Rebuilds a healthy and personal connection with spirituality or faith
What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
Obsessive compulsive disorder is characterized by frequent obsessive thoughts and behaviours that interrupt a person’s day, impeding their ability to go through their day smoothly. These intrusive obsessive thoughts lead the person to frequently and repetitively do behaviours to remove the feared stressor. There are four main categories of obsessions and compulsions: checking, removing contamination, arranging and ordering, and unwanted thoughts.
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Helps you understand your obsessions and compulsions
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Teaches techniques to manage intrusive thoughts
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Uses Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to reduce the urge to perform rituals
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Breaks the cycle of fear and avoidance
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Builds healthier ways to cope with anxiety
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Improves daily functioning and reduces time spent on compulsions
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Strengthens your ability to tolerate uncertainty
What is neurodiversity?
Neurodiversity refers to the idea that some people’s brains are wired differently than the “standard” (i.e. neurotypical) understanding of what constitutes “normal” thinking and behaviour. The concept of neurodiversity is often applied to people living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Tourette’s syndrome (TS), dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, although there are other presentations that fall under the neurodiverse umbrella.
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Assists with executive functioning skills like organization, focus, and planning
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Provides a safe, accepting space to explore unique experiences and needs
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Improves relationships by building communication and understanding
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Helps address anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem that may arise from being misunderstood
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Promotes acceptance and empowerment rather than “fixing” differences
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
Post-traumatic stress disorder is characterized by stress reactions to a traumatic event that persist and remain intense long after the time of the traumatic event. These reactions can take the form of flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, upsetting emotions, fear and anxiety, sleep trouble, constantly being on the alert, withdrawal and avoidance, and physical problems, to name just a few. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) differs from PTSD in that PTSD can develop after a single traumatic event, while C-PTSD develops as a result of repeated traumatic experiences and/or the experience of trauma over a longer time period.
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Provides a safe space to process trauma at your own pace
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Helps reduce flashbacks, nightmares, and intrusive thoughts
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Teaches grounding and calming techniques to manage anxiety and panic
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Reframes negative beliefs about yourself, others, or the world
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Improves emotional regulation and helps you feel more in control
What is parenting?
Parenting is full of joys and challenges. One doesn’t ever graduate from being a mother or father to their children, but what the parent-child relationship looks like changes as children progress through life. Counselling is not just for parents with infants, but children of all ages.
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Understanding life-stage appropriate parent-child dynamics
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How to understand the messages communicated by a child’s behaviour
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Negotiating life-stage transitions
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Repairing past wounds in the parent-child relationship
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Developing stronger connections between parent and child
What is domestic violence?
Domestic violence is any form of behaviour used to gain and maintain power and control over one’s partner in a relationship. Domestic violence is often thought of as being physical, but can also be emotional, sexual, economic, technological, or psychological in nature.
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Provides a safe, confidential space to talk about your experiences
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Helps you process trauma, fear, and emotional pain in a supportive environment
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Rebuilds self-worth and confidence after emotional, physical, or psychological abuse
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Teaches safety planning and boundary-setting for protection and empowerment
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Supports healing from shame, guilt, or isolation often caused by abuse
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Helps you understand the cycle of abuse and recognize unhealthy patterns
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Guides you through decision-making about your future and relationships
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Improves emotional regulation to manage anxiety, depression, or anger
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Supports recovery and resilience for long-term healing and stability
What is insomnia?
Sleep concerns can take many forms, of which the most common is insomnia, which is a difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep. Other troubles related to sleep include sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy. Insufficient quality sleep can have negative effects on mental health and overall functioning.
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Identifies the root causes of sleep problems (stress, anxiety, trauma, etc.)
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Teaches relaxation techniques to calm your mind and body before bed
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Replaces unhelpful sleep habits with healthier routines
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Addresses racing thoughts or worries that keep you awake
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Teaches Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) — the most effective, research-backed approach
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Helps manage underlying issues like anxiety, depression, or chronic stress
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Improves sleep quality and duration through small, sustainable changes
What is medical trauma?
Medical trauma refers to physical and emotional responses to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures, and negative treatment experiences. Medical trauma can lead the brain and the body to reject important present or future physical healing as a result of past traumatic experiences. Therefore, healing from medical trauma can aid in future help-seeking behaviours.
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Provides a safe space to process fear, anxiety, or helplessness from past medical experiences
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Helps you understand and work through trauma responses, such as panic, avoidance, or hypervigilance
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Teaches calming and grounding techniques to manage medical-related triggers
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Reduces anxiety around future medical appointments or procedures
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Supports healing from feelings of betrayal, loss of control, or bodily violation
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Rebuilds trust in healthcare systems or providers, if it has been damaged
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Validates your experience and helps you feel seen, believed, and supported
What is disordered eating?
Disordered eating is a preoccupation with food that often takes the form of either eating insufficient or excessive amounts. Disordered eating often represents a coping mechanism for stress or negative emotions, and/or an unhealthy self-image. Disordered eating typically follows one of three behaviour patterns: eating insufficiently, eating followed by purging, or binge-eating
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Explores the emotional and psychological roots behind eating behaviors
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Helps develop a healthier relationship with food, body, and self
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Teaches coping strategies to manage stress, anxiety, or trauma without using food
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Challenges harmful thoughts around weight, body image, and self-worth
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Provides support for rebuilding body trust and self-compassion
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Helps break the cycle of restrictive eating, bingeing, or purging
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Addresses perfectionism, control issues, or low self-esteem
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Supports long-term recovery by identifying triggers and preventing relapse
What is personality disorders?
Personality disorders are a lifelong pattern of thought and behaviour that leads the person to react in ways that hurt themselves and others. Personality disorders have been classified into three “clusters” which encompass ten personality disorders in all.
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Provides a safe, non-judgmental space to explore complex emotions and behaviours
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Helps you understand the patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that contribute to the disorder
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Teaches emotional regulation skills to manage intense emotions like anger, fear, or sadness
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Improves interpersonal skills to develop healthier relationships and communication strategies
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Identifies triggers and patterns that lead to unhealthy behaviors or conflicts
What is anger management?
Anger is a natural emotion experienced as a reaction to stressful events. However, while anger can be a valid response to an event, the intensity of anger felt or outward expression of anger may be unhealthy. Anger management helps to properly experience anger in a way that is in line with the stressful event and is healthy and productive in its expression.
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Helps you understand the root causes of your anger
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Teaches healthy ways to express anger without hurting others or yourself
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Builds emotional awareness so you can recognize anger before it escalates
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Teaches calming strategies like breathing, mindfulness, and time-outs
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Improves communication skills to express needs without aggression
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Identifies triggers and helps you respond more thoughtfully
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Breaks patterns of explosive or suppressed anger
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Strengthens self-control and patience in challenging situations
What is couples counseling?
Couples counselling is there to help you strengthen your bond with your partner. Couples counselling is not just a last resort attempt to save the relationship before a break-up or separation. It can be helpful for any couple to explore how to grow in their relationship, to reach even greater heights in a relationship that is already satisfying. There is no shame in using couples counselling to uncover and work on areas of growth in the relationship; in fact, doing so early can help prevent more difficult issues later on.
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Improves communication skills so both partners feel heard and understood
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Helps resolve ongoing conflicts in a healthy, respectful way
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Rebuilds trust after betrayal, infidelity, or emotional distance
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Strengthens emotional connection and intimacy
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Teaches tools for managing stress and conflict as a team
What is grief & bereavement?
The loss of a relationship can be one of the most painful experiences for us as human beings. As humans, we are built for connection with others, and the loss of such a connection can shake us not just emotionally, but physically, psychologically, and spiritually. Grief is the natural reaction to loss. Grief and bereavement counselling can help to process the loss, to move through it instead of simply moving on, and to return to a place of peace and stability.
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Provides a safe space to express and process your emotions
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Helps you understand the grieving process and know that your feelings are valid
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Supports you through feelings of sadness, anger, guilt, or numbness
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Assists with adjusting to life after loss and finding a new sense of normal
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Helps prevent complicated or prolonged grief from becoming overwhelming
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Encourages healthy ways to remember and honor your loved one
What is separation & divorce counseling?
Counselling can be very helpful for couples who are deciding to separate or divorce. Counselling can help the couple communicate issues leading to the separation or divorce, and either help both partners leave the relationship more amicably or perhaps even encourage giving the relationship another try. Counselling is also very helpful for growth, uncovering weaknesses and areas of growth in each partner, and helping each partner to improve as individuals, so as not to hurt future partners in the same way.
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Provides a safe space to process grief, anger, and loss
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Helps you navigate the emotional impact of ending a relationship
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Supports healthy communication, especially if co-parenting is involved
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Builds self-esteem and confidence after a painful transition
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Helps you make sense of what happened and find closure
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Teaches coping strategies to manage stress, sadness, and uncertainty
What is infidelity?
Infidelity is a state or act that betrays the promise in a couple’s relationship to be faithful to each other. Infidelity can be either emotional or physical in nature. In an affair, it is the betrayed partner and not the partner who committed the infidelity who has a greater say in whether what was done constitutes infidelity.
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Creates a safe space to process pain, betrayal, and confusion
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Helps both partners express emotions honestly and respectfully
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Supports rebuilding trust after it's been broken
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Explores the underlying issues that may have contributed to the affair
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Guides the healing process whether the goal is reconciliation or separation
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Teaches healthy communication to prevent blame and reactivity
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Helps manage intense emotions like anger, grief, guilt, and shame
What is childhood trauma?
Childhood trauma is any negative experience in childhood that feels overwhelming for the child. Trauma can look like something an adult might consider ‘not a big deal’, but a child is not equipped with the same capacity as an adult to deal with difficult situations. The younger the child, the more important it becomes to take negative experiences seriously, as the presence of a caring and trusted adult makes a big difference in how the child experiences upsetting events in general and traumatic events in particular.
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Provides a safe, supportive space to talk about painful or confusing experiences
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Helps process trauma in a way that feels manageable and healing
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Teaches emotional regulation skills to manage fear, anger, or sadness
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Reduces symptoms of PTSD, such as nightmares, flashbacks, or anxiety
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Improves self-esteem and self-worth often damaged by early trauma
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Supports building trust in others and forming healthy, safe relationships
What is bipolar disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder marked by extreme swinging between feeling “up” (i.e. manic) and “down” (i.e. depressed). People in the up state feel more energized, impulsive, elated, and/or agitated, while people in the down state feel more lethargic, sad, and/or hopeless.
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Teaches strategies to manage mood swings and recognize early warning signs
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Helps create structure and routine to support emotional stability
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Provides support during depressive or manic episodes
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Improves coping skills for stress, sleep issues, and impulsive behavior
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Guides you in maintaining healthy relationships and setting boundaries
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Works alongside medication management for more effective treatment
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Addresses feelings of shame, confusion, or isolation
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Builds self-awareness to better understand your thoughts, emotions, and triggers
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Offers ongoing support and accountability through ups and downs
What are phobias?
A phobia is defined as a persistent, excessive fear of an object, animal, person, or situation. Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder. Phobias are extremely common; many people are able to name a thing or two which provoke an intense fear which they recognize doesn’t make logical sense.
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Helps you understand the root of your fear
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Teaches calming techniques to manage anxiety when facing the phobia
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Gradually exposes you to the feared object or situation in a safe, controlled way (known as exposure therapy)
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Replaces fearful thoughts with more realistic, helpful ones
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Builds confidence in your ability to face fear without panic
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Reduces avoidance behaviors that limit your life\
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Provides emotional support as you work through fear
What is ADD/ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that begins in childhood and may continue into adulthood. ADHD now includes ADD, and is usually characterized in three “subtypes” or presentations. ADHD can be “predominantly inattentive” (what used to be called ADD), “predominantly hyperactive-impulsive”, or “combined”.
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Teaches time management and organization skills
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Helps reduce impulsive behaviors through self-awareness techniques
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Supports emotional regulation (like managing frustration or mood swings)
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Builds self-esteem by focusing on strengths and successes
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Provides coping tools for overwhelm, procrastination, and restlessness
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Improves relationships by addressing communication challenges
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Offers structure and accountability to help stay on track
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Helps identify and manage co-occurring issues, like anxiety or low mood
What is stress & anxiety
Stress is a feeling of physical, mental, or emotional tension. Stress is the body’s normal reaction to difficult situations. Likewise, anxiety, worry, and fear can be normal reactions in stressful situations. Anxiety disorders (including panic disorder and phobias) on the other hand, are experiences of anxiety and fear that are more intense or more prolonged than expected.
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Teaches calming techniques like deep breathing, grounding, and mindfulness
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Helps identify triggers and understand what’s fueling your anxiety
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Replaces anxious thoughts with more balanced, helpful ones
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Builds coping strategies to handle overwhelm in daily life
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Supports emotional regulation so stress doesn’t take over
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Improves sleep and relaxation through lifestyle and thought changes
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Provides a safe space to talk about fears, worries, and stressors
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Boosts self-confidence in managing life’s demands
What is postpartum depression?
The experience of negative emotions after the birth of a child is normal and common, especially for women, as the baby is no longer physically attached to the woman and hormones are in flux. When this experience of the “baby blues” becomes persistent, mothers and fathers may be experiencing postpartum depression.
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Provides a safe space to talk about overwhelming emotions
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Helps process feelings of sadness, guilt, or anxiety that often come after childbirth
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Supports your emotional adjustment to the changes of motherhood
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Offers tools to manage stress, exhaustion, and mood swings
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Addresses identity shifts and feelings of loss or isolation
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Helps rebuild confidence and self-worth as a new parent
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Supports bonding with your baby and navigating relationship changes
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Teaches coping strategies for intrusive thoughts or emotional lows
What is sex therapy?
Nearly every client in an intimate relationship will face the challenge of decreased sexual connection. Whether the result of routine family and relationship changes or the distress of life-changing events, sexual rupture is prevalent, and it's pushing people away from each other. Sex therapy aims to help couples revive their physical and emotional intimacy to better their relationship.
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Rebuild emotional and physical intimacy
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Address decreased sexual connection due to life changes or stress
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Encourage vulnerable, honest communication
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Foster curiosity instead of blame
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Identify and explore unmet needs together
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Use evidence-based methods (e.g., art therapy, mindfulness, Imago therapy)
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Normalize the effects of life transitions on sex and closeness