Counselling Services
Allow me to walk by your side…
Counselling Services - Online
I offer one-on-one, personalized counselling sessions online, from Vancouver and available internationally. Sessions are available in French & English.
I am not your conventional talk therapist. I combine a unique array of approaches from mindfulness based, embodied and somatic (body focused), intuitive, expressive and ritualistic. I offer a spiritual framework (not religion based) and consider the space I hold for my clients to be sacred. I have a dynamic approach, meaning I am not a therapist who sits back and only offers reflective listening. While I do offer this, I also engage, lovingly challenge, and roll up my sleeves to get down in the trenches with you.
My clients often comment that they feel deeply accepted and seen with love and compassion, and this connection is a deeply sacred and transformative healing agent.
Free 20 minute initial consultations are available. Starting with this is a wonderful way for us to connect and feel into whether we are the right fit for each other. There are no strings attached, no hidden sales pitch, no further obligations. I offer this time for free, whole-heartedly, as I know that choosing to work with a therapist that we resonate with, can see ourselves trusting and being vulnerable with, is key to the magic that can happen in a counselling relationship. Likewise, if I do not feel that I have the right skills to support you, it can give us a chance to explore other options.
Forest Walking Sessions
I now offer one-on-one, 90 minute Forest Walking Sessions in Vancouver, generally around Pacific Spirit Forest (near UBC), but location may vary.
There are so many benefits to moving our bodies and being in nature for our overall wellbeing, and especially while engaging in therapy.
Outdoor (or walk/talk) therapy sessions may involve walking, meandering, communing with nature, slowing down, walking in silence together, sitting on a log, in a comfortable meadow or on a bench, and perhaps even getting playful or ceremonial. It will generally include addressing therapeutic goals and topics. While movement may be a benefit to you physically, the focus of the experience is therapy, not exercise. You will be invited to set the walking pace that feels appropriate for you, and to choose preferred areas in the environment that feel most comfortable. I choose trails that are mostly flat, easy, comfortable, and enchanting.
Outdoor therapy has a variety of potential benefits that may help us determine if this an appropriate mode of therapy for you:
Meeting outside of the typical office/home environment can provide a change of scenery and help in getting “unstuck” in the therapeutic process.
Meeting in person instead of virtually can enhance presence and connection.
Evidence that bilateral rhythmic movement (i.e. walking) can evoke potentially helpful changes in brain chemistry and enhance processing difficult therapy material.
Expanded options for grounding, relaxation, or mindfulness strategies.
Less formal/clinical setting can increase accessibility and comfort.
Empirical evidence that contact with nature decreases rumination and negative mood states, and positively impacts attention and concentration.
Greater connection to the natural world and the environment has been shown to improve well-being.
Other specific benefits related to the treatment plan (gradual exposure for phobias, social anxiety, etc.).
As this might not be appropriate for everyone or ever session, if you are a new client, I will request that we have at least one online session prior to meeting in nature. If you are an existing client, you can contact me to book these sessions.
These sessions are 90 min. long so we aren’t rushed in settling in and finding our pace.
I would be deeply honoured to walk by your side, as your companion, cheerleader and guide, and offer you my heart, acceptance, strength, soft place to land, and love.
20 minute Online discovery session - Free
60 minute Online session - $195 + GST
90 minute Online/Forest Walking session - $290 + GST
Most counsellors offer 50 min. sessions.
I prefer allowing for lots of time to slow down and extra space to process.
As such, I am often flexible and generous with my time, and frequently allow for extra time at no additional investment, when needed.