Therapists in Penticton, BC

While working with me, you’ll find that I take a gentle yet direct angle to help you move at your pace while giving an encouraging push to keep you on your path to healing and wholeness. I take a special focus in exploring how your past experiences impact your current life in a nonjudgmental and compassionate way. This often looks like examining how your trauma (big or small, it's all valid!) is still carried today. I aim to help you find the safety to let go of your burdens and find new ways that your system can work for you, based on the here and now instead of the past, through processing and integration of new patterns.

I offer a person-centered, holistic approach to supporting people to connect with their innate wisdom to heal, grow, and thrive. Honouring the unique context of peoples’ experiences, I support people on their transformational path through anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, loss, loneliness, depression, healing trauma & creating resilience. My focus is to create a safe, warm, inclusive atmosphere where the fear & shame that often hold us back from healing can soften through an experience of compassionate acceptance & deeply attuned therapeutic support.

Do you struggle with depression or anxiety? Are you unsure of what to do from here? Let's untangle those moments to help you see your true self, which includes your strengths, struggles and life transitions. When we see ourselves through a different lens, we may recognize a more authentic self, creating self-acceptance and self-love. Let’s work together to create a relationship based on trust, genuineness and acceptance. I have daytime and evening availability.

We are an online counselling agency so do not provide services in person. Strength Counselling Services has licensed, experienced therapists who use evidence-based practices, prioritize client needs, and maintain ethical standards. We offer culturally sensitive, affordable services in a supportive environment. We offer a comprehensive goals assessment, regularly assess progress, and collaborate with other professionals. We provide transparency in our fees and for thirteen years now have held a positive reputation of trust, and client success. Lastly, ensuring our clients' privacy and confidentiality are of utmost importance to us.

We believe counselling is about being open and willing about exploring that which is negatively impacting your life. Facing challenges and difficulties takes courage and a belief that something could be different and even, perhaps, better. I aim to create a warm and welcoming space. Here, you are invited to explore your current situation with a focus on how to create a brighter tomorrow. We believe each person has a sense of what is helpful. Personalizing each session, we collaboratively create a plan to move you through this challenge and to a tomorrow with greater freedom. We offer reduced rate counselling with our MACP candidate.

Are you struggling to keep up with the many demands of life? Do you feel disconnected from yourself and those around you? Does past trauma affect your ability to feel safe in the present? Are you tired of navigating systems that don’t make sense or support you? You are not alone! We are all biologically wired for love and connection, but when you fight each day to keep your head above water it can be extremely isolating and asking for help might feel scary and overwhelming. I would like to assure you that you are worthy of help and compassionate support is available to you and your family.

I work primarily with adult (19+) individuals who want to find freedom from the patterns they can’t seem to understand or can’t seem to change. Perhaps you are burdened with anxiety; perhaps want to become your authentic self; maybe you want to explore troubling relationship patterns; or maybe you find yourself repeating behaviours despite your best intentions to change. Whatever it is that brings you here, welcome! Even in life’s most painful, disorienting moments, I believe reconnecting with the essence of who we are provides us with wisdom that can propel us forward. I'm here to help you do just that.

I specialize in working with adult men who struggle with anxiety, guilt, anger, depression, self-esteem, trauma, and relationship issues. A particular specialty is with men who are highly sensitive or introverted. I have worked with many young to middle aged male adults who want a new direction in life and/or who struggle to develop a healthy sense of autonomy in relationships. If you are looking for support in becoming more aware, empowered, and self-compassionate while you embark on a new path that is more aligned with how you want to live your life, I can guide you along the way.

Are you wanting to be more present with your children? Create a life that you love? To have deeper connections to yourself and others?