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Vancouver Counselling Therapy 604-417-3315

In my practice I support people who are healing form childhood sexual abuse, abandonment, and neglect.
I hold space for people while they dance with grief or are on a healing journey form sexual assault and abuse.
I offer support to people who are moving through creative or spiritual emergence and heal their creativity scars, stepping in on the path of healers, creatives, and entrepreneurs. Finally I help people integrate experiences of altered states of consciousness, transcendent and psychedelic experiences into daily lives.

My work focus is:

Psilocybin Therapy
Psychedelic Integration
Consensual Non-monogamy
Sexual Trauma
Birth trauma
Childhood sexual abuse, abandonment, and neglect

People who are drawn to work with me are curious about my unique blend of therapeutic approaches to transformation.

I use a unique concoction of old and new healing modalities when I work with people. This blend is informed by my Masters Degree, the amazing field of Neuroscience, two year training in Somatic Experiencing, and Narrative Therapy. I balance these Western approaches to therapy with dreamwork, ceremony, intuitive guidance and ancient healing practices passed to me by wise teachers who hold secrets of old world medicines from shamanic and mystical traditions. I bring ceremonial work of my maternal grandmothers who were healers of the Slavic Ukrainian descent and I am often guided to pick up a drum and offer clients healing experiences that come from my paternal ancestors, Native Siberian Shamans from Altai Mountains. I know that nature is the greatest healer and honouring wise, wild nature and human wholeness is essence of my work in the world.

Yes, it is quite a blend of education, training, and experiences. Below you will find a list of therapists who in some ways do similar work. They are amazing colleagues and friends!

Therapists/Counsellors accepting new clients

Melanie O'Leary

Soul Sanctuary Events

Melanie Keller O’Leary is an Earth & Soul Medicine Practitioner, Sound Therapist, Sacred Ceremony Facilitator and Creative Visionary. By combining contemporary and traditional wisdom, Melanie is committed to preserving ancestral wisdom traditions by restoring myth, creativity, ceremony, rites of passage and earth & soul medicine within her healing practice.With creativity and abundant gentleness, Melanie helps people to heal their past, dream their future, connect to their authentic self and support them in being or becoming who they really are.

Chantelle Sands

Chantelle Sands is an Indigenous Counsellor from Yukon; practicing in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Chantelle holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in counselling. Chantelle works from humanistic, trauma-informed and integrative approach. Chantelle believes the greatest tool in counselling is the relationship between client and counselor and does not consider herself the expert. She understands that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to counselling and will use tools and techniques from different modalities of therapy and tailor an individual approach for you. Some frameworks that influence Chantelle's work include: narrative therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, Carl Jung shadow work, feminist/anti-oppressive theory. To learn more about Chantelle you can visit her website www.fireweedhealing.com

Cathy Wilder

RCC, M.Ed., DipC

Cathy works intuitively with a Western & Eastern foundations to health & wellbeing. As she works in a wide range of ways to creatively connect people more deeply to themselves, their significant partner, important family members and friends this allows for many healing opportunities. It also illuminates one’s narrative to facilitate the shifting of stuck patterns.
Being with and journeying with others while stepping into their shadows, dark and heart-breaking spaces to emerge into more of who they are, into a life that has purpose, meaning, greater wellbeing & satisfaction has been a driving force in Cathy's life for over 35 years.

Cathy works with both individuals and couples. Some specific areas of focus include:

Relationship issues,
Conscious Separation
Health challenges- moving into Wellness
Grief and Loss
Depression
Anxiety
Effective Boundary Development
Living with Uncertainty
Addictions: Healing and Shifting
Cultivating Joy

For further information go to: www.creativeconnections.ca

Angela Caruk

Angela is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. If you are interested in dream work or looking for more bliss in sexuality and pleasure in life, I recommend you find out more about what she does. She is passionate about Somatic Dreamwork, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Embodied Wisdom, Relationships, Women’s Work & Creativity.

PROGRAMS: CVAP & FNHA
LOCATION: Victoria & Online
Website: https://shaktistories.com/counselling/

Christine Butler

Christine is a Registered Professional Counsellor, teacher and workshop facilitator. She is fiercely passionate about supporting women going through challenging life transitions (periods of change), and those wanting to expand their self-awareness. Through her personal and professional experience, Christine has come to believe that the transitions we move through in life (periods of change), whether chosen or imposed, subtle or life-altering, are actually invitations to transform, and she views them as sacred rites of passage that are beckoning us to expand more fully into our truest, untamed, wild, authentic nature.
LOCATION: Online
https://www.christinebutler.ca

ICBC, CVAP, Insurance Covered Counselling

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With more than 124 clinicians in over 60 convenient locations (Clinical Counsellors, Registered Social Workers, a Registered Psychologist, Intern Counsellors, and Practicum Student Counsellors) offering 34 languages.

LOCATION: multiple locations on Lower Mainland
PROGRAMS: ICBC, CVAP & FNHA

Couples Counselling

Sheryl Thompson

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What Sheryl Says about her Practice:
With decades of unresolved trauma locked in my body and numerous attempts to shift this through traditional talk therapy, I attended an introductory Somatic Experiencing (SE) workshop. After gaining a beginner’s understanding of trauma physiology and how traumatic energy can get stored in the body, I knew this was the key I had been looking for. Through the foundational SE training, and advanced trainings in somatic touch, I have personally experienced the profound changes that can happen when the nervous system and the body become central characters in the healing story. My goal is to gently assist you towards healthy regulation, and to a place where you can attune to yourself, others and the world around you while feeling safe. Trauma steals our safety, our curiousity and full access to our innate life force energy. My hope on our journey together is the safe container of therapy and my curiousity reignites your curiousity, and the spark that is you.

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Fernanda Selayzin Souza

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Fernanda is my go to couple’s therapist! She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Master’s Degree in Education (MEd) from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology (MCP) from the Adler University. Originally trained as a Psychologist in Brazil (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais). Fernanda has a very warm and genuine style as well as 21 years of experience counselling clients from a variety of cultural, religious, and social backgrounds. She has successfully helped many get to where they wanted to be, and often while moving through challenging life transitions, devastating losses, emotional pain, difficult relationships, grief, impairing distress, and other kinds of overwhelming experiences.
Her approach to counselling is based on many years of training in attachment-focused and trauma-informed perspectives, as well as family systems. It is also based on my understanding that biopsychosocial and spiritual factors impact human well-being and functioning.

Registered Acupuncturist

Delphine Baumer

Registered Accupuncturist

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Delphine is an intuitive Acupuncturist with a keen sense of energy flow within the body. She has a passion for finding and treating the underlying root imbalance causing symptoms.

Registered Massage Therapists

Terry Green

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Terri is a graduate of the West Coast College of Massage Therapy where she completed 3000 hours of training to receive her registered massage therapy status. Terri has been practicing since 2005, and over the years she has taken a multitude of post graduate courses to deepen her understanding of massage therapy and the human body. Terri believes that learning creates space for inspiration. She is particularly passionate about myofascial release , visceral manipulation , and cranial sacral therapy and has successfully used these techniques in her practice for the past several years. Her training and dedication has allowed her to witness huge shifts in clients who live with chronic pain, as well as issues relating to posture, range of motion, and mobility. You can expect her treatments to be healing, relaxing and informative. Her deep understanding of anatomy and willingness to impart this knowledge will leave you feeling both empowered and connected to your body. When she is not in the office you can catch her passionately pursuing her yoga practice, baking cookies, and shopping for shoes!

Erica Moore

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Erica is a Registered Massage Therapist who helps people release tension related to pain and trauma so they can feel a greater sense of safety, resilience and freedom. In her sessions, you do not re-experience past trauma or injury in a cathartic way. Instead, she guides you to revisit past “survival” reactions, such as fight, flight, freeze and collapse, without becoming overwhelmed.
Her approach allows you to experience that “the danger has passed,” as trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk puts it. You are now safe to live in present reality. This is what she calls “befriending your body.”