Women’s Counselling in BC 

Attachment-based therapy focuses on understanding how early relationships and attachments shape emotional patterns, behavior, and connection styles in adulthood. By exploring your attachment history, we can uncover any patterns that may impact your relationships and personal well-being. This approach helps clients develop healthier, more secure connections by identifying and healing attachment wounds, improving emotional regulation, and fostering a deeper sense of trust and safety. In our work together, I will support you in recognizing these patterns and empower you to build stronger, more fulfilling relationships by cultivating emotional awareness and healing old wounds.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic approach that helps you connect with the different parts of yourself and access your inner guidance: your wise, compassionate core. We all have parts of us that can feel conflicted or stuck, like inner critics or unresolved emotions. IFS helps you understand these parts as protective responses that developed to help you cope.

In our sessions, I’ll guide you to connect with these parts and, more importantly, to tune into your Self: the grounded, compassionate center within you. From this place of inner wisdom, you can heal and bring balance to the parts of you that need attention. By strengthening your inner guidance, you can navigate challenges with more clarity, peace, and self-compassion.

I use Mindfulness-Based Therapy to help you develop greater awareness and presence in your life by focusing on the present moment, free from judgment. Through mindfulness techniques like meditation, I’ll guide you in learning how to manage stress, reduce anxiety, and break free from negative thought patterns.

Mindfulness-Based Therapy is especially effective for those struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, or overwhelming emotions. It equips you with practical tools for self-regulation and emotional resilience, helping you respond to life’s challenges with greater calm and clarity. By cultivating mindfulness, we’ll work together to foster deeper self-awareness, improve mental clarity, and nurture a sense of peace and well-being.

I often use somatic therapy, a body-based approach to healing that helps you gently reconnect with your physical sensations and emotions. Rather than diving into traumatic memories, somatic therapy focuses on tuning into the body in the present moment, which helps you stay within your window of tolerance, where healing can happen most safely and effectively.

We might use simple practices like breathwork, mindfulness, grounding techniques, or gentle movement to help you notice and work with the sensations in your body. This process supports you in gradually rebuilding trust in yourself and your body, especially if past trauma has left you feeling disconnected or unsafe in your own skin.

Somatic therapy is about coming home to your body, at your own pace, and creating a renewed sense of safety, stability, and wholeness from the inside out.

I offer a compassionate space where you can explore your sense of meaning, purpose, and connection, whatever those ideas look like for you. Whether your beliefs are rooted in religion, shaped by philosophy, or guided by a personal spiritual path, I’ll meet you with respect and openness.

My approach is holistic, honoring the connection between mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Depending on what resonates with you, we might incorporate practices like meditation, mindfulness, visualization, or gentle energy-based techniques. These tools are always tailored to your comfort and interests, helping you reconnect with your inner wisdom and feel more grounded and whole.