Family Therapy in Nakusp, BC

Your child is amazing. You just want the best for them. If you're exploring the idea of therapy, it's likely that your child is currently encountering some difficulties. There's nothing more heart-wrenching than witnessing your child face challenges. Sometimes, you can pinpoint the underlying issue, but in other instances, it remains a complete mystery. Art therapists are trained in both art and psychology, and have knowledge about the psychological role of the creative process and the impact of using different art materials and techniques for helping uncover issues, build healthy coping mechanisms, and support healing and growth.

My individualized process is guided by your needs, wants, beliefs, and values. I use many approaches to support you: active listening, empathy, targeted psychological and social interventions, thought exercises, and goal setting. I help you understand how changing can improve your quality of life and how to take those difficult steps towards self-improvement. Our relationship will be based on mutual respect, empathy, professionalism, respect for diversity, and a focus on your rights to confidentiality and autonomy. I help with couples counselling, child, youth & family issues, anxiety, depression, OCD, and men's issues.

In the face of life’s unexpected challenges, you may be feeling overwhelmed and stuck. My role as your counsellor is to be your guide, meeting you in your present moment, and moving at your pace, giving you practical tools to cope and overcome. Together, we’ll navigate a compassionate, judgment-free space, focusing on regaining control and fostering a healthier, happier life. My goal is to aid you in achieving peace of mind and enhancing your overall quality of life.

It is seeming all too normal these days to experience feelings of disconnection. A separation from ourselves, our passions, our bodies, our communities, etc. We spend so much time in our heads trying to figure out how to survive when we so desperately want to be thriving. Where has our aliveness gone? How do we get our bodies and our senses back online and truly show up for our unique experience?

Are you looking for a counsellor who is open to see what you see? I am here to align with you as we look at how to find the right answers specific to you. Whether you struggle with anxious thoughts, periods of despair, difficulties with your relationships or just feel generally unhappy and restless, or perhaps life has thrown a curve-ball that is out of your control and traumatic to integrate, I believe the wisdom of our bodies can be utilised so that you can find resonant and usable techniques to change your life. I know that inner peace and healing are absolutely attainable and I am excited to walk with you as you find a new path.

I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with a focus in Relational Somatic Therapy & Early Life (pre and perinatal) Attachment Therapy. I offer a compassionate, body-centered, somatic approach to working with clients to build resiliency, adapt to major life transitions, build secure attachment in primary relationships and bring support and tools to trauma resolution. Currently accepting new clients in my practices in Nelson, Slocan Valley, BC and online. You can see my web site at: gritandgracecounselling.ca and make contact to set up a free 15 minute consult via email or phone.

I am passionate about supporting children, teens and young adults. Over the past decade I have been committed to providing therapeutic counselling services to children, adolescents and their families in the West Kootenays. I have provided art therapy services through a number of local community services centers as well as for school districts.

Embrace the potential for true change at any stage of life. Whether contending with anxiety, negative thought cycles, concerns about your child, PTSD, anxiety, or facing a separation, I offer tailored short-term counseling for specific challenges and long-term therapy to delve into historical issues and enduring patterns. Together, we craft a personalized treatment plan aligned with your current needs, motivations, and strengths. Utilizing evidence-based approaches such as CBT, EMDR, DBT, EFT, and more, I'm driven to guide you in overcoming symptoms and related distress.

At Kelowna Trauma Therapy, we exist to help you find freedom from trauma - whether "big" or "small." We believe you already have the internal resources you need to heal from whatever trauma you have experienced. Our job is to help you find your way to healing, using proven therapeutic methods such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing and Neurofeedback.

Do you believe that emotions are a crucial part of the human experience and want to work with a therapist who shares this belief? As a trained therapist in Emotion-Focused Family Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy, I am here to help you process and understand your emotions. I am a therapist with a multicultural background from Latin America. I offer therapy services in both Spanish and English because I understand the importance of language and culture in the therapy process. My goal is to create a culturally sensitive and inclusive environment that will support all my clients on their journey towards healing and growth.

Couple and Family Counselling is the focus of my practice. Relationship dynamics can be complex. I work with couples and family members in a collaborative and non-judgmental way to identify what is working and what is not within the family system. I also specialize in working with trauma, first responders (BCEHS and the RCMP) and with individuals who have experienced, witnessed, or perpetrated violence. I believe the details of my clients lived experiences are important and I will work hard to understand clients responses, and the larger context. I have over 10 years’ experience working with individuals, couples, and families.

Life has taught me to never underestimate people, and that everyone has unique needs when it comes to healing, because we all have unique identities and ways of functioning.

“Nothing about us without us” is a movement in the Autistic community that is foundational in the support provided to Neurodiverse persons and their families. I am passionate about helping individuals and families thrive. I work with families from diverse backgrounds and am dedicated to providing culturally-sensitive care. As a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor who also has lived experience as an Autistic person, I understand the nuanced needs of autistic adults and families needing support for their neurodiverse children.

At some point, we all hit a wall where self-help books and call-in therapy radio shows are no longer enough. Whether you are finding your way through grief over the loss of a loved one, experiencing a transition in your life, struggling in relationship or career, there is no reason why you have to go it alone. Believing a counselor must work on healing their own issues first, I have worked thru my own struggles in all of these areas. As a result I bring that learning to help many others.

Do you feel weighted down by stress, unrealistic expectations, anger, guilt, shame, fear, anxiety, depression, or self-defeating behaviors? Do you find yourself in relationships that resemble your own family dysfunctions and could not break free? Have you somehow become one of those “hurt” people who hurt people? Then you have found the right place to journey with me toward freedom and wholesome living. If you have had your will and funeral wishes prepared ahead, Dignity Therapy (DT)might be what you need next. DT enhances end-of-life experience and its legacy document preserves one’s special memories for many generations to come.