Our Group of Registered Clinical Counsellors is based in Victoria B.C. on unceded Coast Salish Territory. We offer skilled, caring professional counselling for effective living! We believe in action-based practical solutions using people's strengths and abilities to find new ways of feeling, thinking and behaving for improving their lives and relationships.
Our areas of specialty are parenting and relationship issues, grief and loss, anxiety, stress, trauma, personal growth and development, LGBTTQQ2, transgender support, aging, pre-marital issues, healing from abuse, PTSD, depression AND life transitions. We are all Registered Clinical Counsellors based in Victoria B.C.
Our areas of specialty are parenting and relationship issues, grief and loss, anxiety, stress, trauma, personal growth and development, LGBTTQQ2, transgender support, aging, pre-marital issues, healing from abuse, PTSD, depression AND life transitions. We are all Registered Clinical Counsellors based in Victoria B.C.
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I have been working with individuals, couples, children, adolescents and families here in Victoria since 1971. I worked on contract to the Ministry of Families and Children for 15 years counselling children and families and training as a Play Therapist.
I graduated from the Pacific Coast Family Therapy Training Institute in 1985 as a Certified Family Therapist and became a founding member of the Island Family Counselling Centre where I was in private practice for 15 years working with youth, adults, families and joining two other therapists to provide group play therapy to children.
I graduated from the Pacific Coast Family Therapy Training Institute in 1985 as a Certified Family Therapist and became a founding member of the Island Family Counselling Centre where I was in private practice for 15 years working with youth, adults, families and joining two other therapists to provide group play therapy to children.
I have been in private practice since 1986, offering in-depth, client-centred psychotherapy. In 1988 I became actively involved in the founding of the B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellors, a regulatory body that sets the standards of the counselling profession of British Columbia. I remain a committed and active member in good standing.
My areas of specialty are relationships and marital issues, grief and loss, mid-life issues, life transitions, healing from loss and trauma, personal growth and historical sexual abuse. I have a Masters in Counselling Psychology from the University of Victoria. I have had extensive training in emotionally focused therapy for couples and utilize a variety of empathetic, somatic and cognitive approaches.
Since 1989 I've had the privilege and pleasure of serving men and women, individuals and couples, from 18 to 89, in my private practice. My clinical practice has included both short-term solution focused counselling and longer-term psychotherapy. More recently I've enjoyed expanding my practice to include coaching.
What are the differences between the services offered and educational backgrounds of the following mental health professionals? A. Registered Clinical Counsellor - A Registered Clinical Counsellor usually has a Masters degree in psychology or counselling or works at a Master's level of competence in counselling.
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