Non-Insured Health | First Nations Therapists in Qualicum Beach, BC
At heart I am a down-to-earth optimist, I believe we are born with a desire to be the best version of ourselves. Rather than seeing transitions, depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship issues as merely suffering to be overcome, I see them also as opportunities to deepen in our understanding of self and in our ability to handle the world successfully. Each of us is on a heroic journey, and each life needs two things to grow and develop, ‘love” and “difficulties”. It is the difficulties that cause us to look inside ourselves, and to understand self in a deeper way, and to develop an outlook and the skills to be in the world.
At heart I am a down-to-earth optimist, I believe we are born with a desire to be the best version of ourselves. Rather than seeing transitions, depression, anxiety, trauma, and relationship issues as merely suffering to be overcome, I see them also as opportunities to deepen in our understanding of self and in our ability to handle the world successfully. Each of us is on a heroic journey, and each life needs two things to grow and develop, ‘love” and “difficulties”. It is the difficulties that cause us to look inside ourselves, and to understand self in a deeper way, and to develop an outlook and the skills to be in the world.
Direct billing is available for Canada Life, FNHA, GreenShield, and Medavie Blue Cross to help make accessing therapy as simple as possible.
You may look like you're managing on the outside while feeling overwhelmed on the inside. Many of the people I work with are navigating chronic illness or pain, ADHD or autism, anxiety, grief, caregiving, burnout, or major life changes. Living with physical or emotional challenges can affect every part of life. I provide a supportive, non-judgmental space where we can make sense of what you're experiencing, identify what's keeping you stuck, and work toward meaningful, lasting change together.
Direct billing is available for Canada Life, FNHA, GreenShield, and Medavie Blue Cross to help make accessing therapy as simple as possible.
You may look like you're managing on the outside while feeling overwhelmed on the inside. Many of the people I work with are navigating chronic illness or pain, ADHD or autism, anxiety, grief, caregiving, burnout, or major life changes. Living with physical or emotional challenges can affect every part of life. I provide a supportive, non-judgmental space where we can make sense of what you're experiencing, identify what's keeping you stuck, and work toward meaningful, lasting change together.
Navigating life’s challenges can be daunting, especially when exploring identity or facing family and social pressures. I’m here to provide a safe, affirming space where you can share your story without fear of judgment. I specialize in supporting children, youth, young adults, parents and families. With experience in identity exploration, family dynamics, and building resilience, I work collaboratively to help you thrive. Whether you’re a young person seeking guidance or a parent looking for support, we’ll build on your strengths to foster growth and healing.
Navigating life’s challenges can be daunting, especially when exploring identity or facing family and social pressures. I’m here to provide a safe, affirming space where you can share your story without fear of judgment. I specialize in supporting children, youth, young adults, parents and families. With experience in identity exploration, family dynamics, and building resilience, I work collaboratively to help you thrive. Whether you’re a young person seeking guidance or a parent looking for support, we’ll build on your strengths to foster growth and healing.
I work with families youth and adults who are struggling and wanting to find ways to make improvements. It is my role to assist you in developing clear goals and implementing practical and effective strategies for positive change.
I work with families youth and adults who are struggling and wanting to find ways to make improvements. It is my role to assist you in developing clear goals and implementing practical and effective strategies for positive change.
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Kitsune Counselling and Consulting
Counsellor, MA, RCC
3 Endorsed
Nanaimo, BC V9T
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I work with folks that are struggling with the effects of chronic stress, loss, and relational trauma. I believe humans have a great ability to form protective patterns of behaviours and beliefs to try and cope with the intensity of adversity. When we outgrow these patterns, they can become the sources of anxiety or distress. I specialize in navigating these inner landscapes with clients so they can connect with what and how they want their lives to look like. My approach to healing invites the complexity of being a human so people can bring their whole authentic self forward.
I work with folks that are struggling with the effects of chronic stress, loss, and relational trauma. I believe humans have a great ability to form protective patterns of behaviours and beliefs to try and cope with the intensity of adversity. When we outgrow these patterns, they can become the sources of anxiety or distress. I specialize in navigating these inner landscapes with clients so they can connect with what and how they want their lives to look like. My approach to healing invites the complexity of being a human so people can bring their whole authentic self forward.
Therapy is a space for radical inner discovery. My therapy approach focuses on increasing your self-compassion, recognizing your strengths, and sitting with your struggles. I connect with people through experience, and our sessions can often be experiential in nature. This can mean a focus on parts work, somatic work, breath work, internal visualization or narrative therapy. My approach to therapy invites you to sit with me in the unknown or the uncomfortable, to build your sense of self-empowerment and discovery.
Therapy is a space for radical inner discovery. My therapy approach focuses on increasing your self-compassion, recognizing your strengths, and sitting with your struggles. I connect with people through experience, and our sessions can often be experiential in nature. This can mean a focus on parts work, somatic work, breath work, internal visualization or narrative therapy. My approach to therapy invites you to sit with me in the unknown or the uncomfortable, to build your sense of self-empowerment and discovery.
Do you struggle with feeling disconnected from yourself and others? Do you put your needs at the bottom of the to-do list? Do you wonder if life should feel somehow better? Happier? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed and uncertain about how they are supposed to manage their relationships, careers, and their lives. Pushing away your needs and not taking time for yourself can lead to long-term issues and challenges for your mind and body. Life shouldn't be so hard and you deserve to live a better life. Together we can create goals that focus on your values and having better connections to yourself and others.
Do you struggle with feeling disconnected from yourself and others? Do you put your needs at the bottom of the to-do list? Do you wonder if life should feel somehow better? Happier? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious, overwhelmed and uncertain about how they are supposed to manage their relationships, careers, and their lives. Pushing away your needs and not taking time for yourself can lead to long-term issues and challenges for your mind and body. Life shouldn't be so hard and you deserve to live a better life. Together we can create goals that focus on your values and having better connections to yourself and others.
I know you already have your own resources and skills to deal with your struggles. My skills and experiences are simply to help you find these resources within you. A person comes to me because they are stuck and lost in stressful worries or getting angry too quickly or frustrated and powerless in conflicts with other. Our work together is for you to find your natural instinct and insights to develop the clarity to move forward. The skills I use to help you are in grounded in Somatic Experiencing, an understanding of the dynamic of your nervous systems and Focusing, a therapy skill to open your clarity and the way to go forward.
I know you already have your own resources and skills to deal with your struggles. My skills and experiences are simply to help you find these resources within you. A person comes to me because they are stuck and lost in stressful worries or getting angry too quickly or frustrated and powerless in conflicts with other. Our work together is for you to find your natural instinct and insights to develop the clarity to move forward. The skills I use to help you are in grounded in Somatic Experiencing, an understanding of the dynamic of your nervous systems and Focusing, a therapy skill to open your clarity and the way to go forward.
It is my hope that through counselling, people who struggle with life’s adversities will grow and change towards living and feeling empowerment, love, and compassion. I work with individuals on a range of areas including relationships, trauma, grief, loss, addiction, anxiety, and depression.
It is my hope that through counselling, people who struggle with life’s adversities will grow and change towards living and feeling empowerment, love, and compassion. I work with individuals on a range of areas including relationships, trauma, grief, loss, addiction, anxiety, and depression.
As a Registered Clinical Counsellor with over 25 years experience, my heart’s work is to be a sacred witness for those carrying the weight of trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and addiction. I offer compassionate support to people of all genders, while my primary passion and focus are devoted to women’s healing and empowerment. I help you understand the coping mechanisms that helped you survive but now show up as patterns that hold you back and cause you to think, feel, and behave in ways that no longer serve you. I believe deeply in every person’s innate capacity for healing and growth.
As a Registered Clinical Counsellor with over 25 years experience, my heart’s work is to be a sacred witness for those carrying the weight of trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and addiction. I offer compassionate support to people of all genders, while my primary passion and focus are devoted to women’s healing and empowerment. I help you understand the coping mechanisms that helped you survive but now show up as patterns that hold you back and cause you to think, feel, and behave in ways that no longer serve you. I believe deeply in every person’s innate capacity for healing and growth.
If you're covered through the First Nations Health Authority in BC, I take care of applying for funding and getting paid so that you don't have to.
I’m glad you found your way here!
I'm a settler living on K’ómoks First Nation territory and I offer feminist, attachment-based somatic therapy for those who want to recover from trauma and PTSD. I am naturally a gentle, yet direct person, and I specialize in relational trauma therapies. I typically serve clients who want to feel more confident in relationships with a greater sense of self-worth, inner peace, and freedom.
My approach invites you to reconnect with your body, strengthen your sense of self, and feel emotions with compassion and intention. We collaborate, since helping you feel empowered is important to me.
If you're covered through the First Nations Health Authority in BC, I take care of applying for funding and getting paid so that you don't have to.
I’m glad you found your way here!
I'm a settler living on K’ómoks First Nation territory and I offer feminist, attachment-based somatic therapy for those who want to recover from trauma and PTSD. I am naturally a gentle, yet direct person, and I specialize in relational trauma therapies. I typically serve clients who want to feel more confident in relationships with a greater sense of self-worth, inner peace, and freedom.
My approach invites you to reconnect with your body, strengthen your sense of self, and feel emotions with compassion and intention. We collaborate, since helping you feel empowered is important to me.
Currently, I can direct bill clients with Blue Cross, Green Shield, FNHA, or those who have been referred to me through ICBC or EFAP/Telus Health.
I specialize in offering individual and couples counselling, where I strive to create a safe and non-judgmental space for exploration and healing. I believe in taking a holistic approach to therapy, understanding that mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing are interconnected. This means that I consider various aspects of your life and experiences.
Currently, I can direct bill clients with Blue Cross, Green Shield, FNHA, or those who have been referred to me through ICBC or EFAP/Telus Health.
I specialize in offering individual and couples counselling, where I strive to create a safe and non-judgmental space for exploration and healing. I believe in taking a holistic approach to therapy, understanding that mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing are interconnected. This means that I consider various aspects of your life and experiences.
I hold a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology and am a provider with FNHA and CVAP.
I specialize in trauma, neurodiversity, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, EMDR, parenting support, childhood anxiety and attachment, separation and divorce, co-parenting, child and teen counselling, LGBTQ+ affirming care, Gottman therapy, and anxiety, depression and grief.
I hold a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology and am a provider with FNHA and CVAP.
I specialize in trauma, neurodiversity, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, EMDR, parenting support, childhood anxiety and attachment, separation and divorce, co-parenting, child and teen counselling, LGBTQ+ affirming care, Gottman therapy, and anxiety, depression and grief.
I have been working as a counsellor for 29 years and my work focuses on addiction and trauma issues. They often go hand in hand but not always as each person is unique. The focus of my counselling work is very respectful as I acknowledge that you know yourself best. Most people seek out counselling because they are stuck in old patterns that they have outgrown yet need help to move forward in a new, more helpful way. I appreciate the courage it takes to reach out and I will work hard to help you make the changes you need.
I have been working as a counsellor for 29 years and my work focuses on addiction and trauma issues. They often go hand in hand but not always as each person is unique. The focus of my counselling work is very respectful as I acknowledge that you know yourself best. Most people seek out counselling because they are stuck in old patterns that they have outgrown yet need help to move forward in a new, more helpful way. I appreciate the courage it takes to reach out and I will work hard to help you make the changes you need.
If life has begun to feel heavy on your shoulders, I’m here to help you find steadier ground. I’m Monique Hendricks, a Registered Clinical Counsellor on Vancouver Island, offering a soft and supportive space for people of all ages facing anxiety, depression, grief, or relational challenges. My trauma-informed approach is gentle and grounding. With your consent, my practice includes mindfulness or somatic awareness to help you reconnect with your breath, your body, and the quiet wisdom already within you.
Healing begins when you feel safe, supported, and truly heard.
If life has begun to feel heavy on your shoulders, I’m here to help you find steadier ground. I’m Monique Hendricks, a Registered Clinical Counsellor on Vancouver Island, offering a soft and supportive space for people of all ages facing anxiety, depression, grief, or relational challenges. My trauma-informed approach is gentle and grounding. With your consent, my practice includes mindfulness or somatic awareness to help you reconnect with your breath, your body, and the quiet wisdom already within you.
Healing begins when you feel safe, supported, and truly heard.
Welcome. If you've been feeling stressed, overwhelmed or just tired of carrying too much on your own, I'm glad you found your way here.
In my practice, I seek to create a container of safety and connection where people can feel seen, understood and supported. From this place, more helpful and authentic ways of thinking, feeling and relating can emerge or return.
Welcome. If you've been feeling stressed, overwhelmed or just tired of carrying too much on your own, I'm glad you found your way here.
In my practice, I seek to create a container of safety and connection where people can feel seen, understood and supported. From this place, more helpful and authentic ways of thinking, feeling and relating can emerge or return.
Today as a society there are so many stressors that we have to deal with on an individual basis such as mental illness, trauma, struggles with addiction, work and relationship stress that can impact our overall ability to function and succeed. Going through any of these struggles alone is a near impossible task and I am happy that you are looking for someone to walk along with you through life's challenges.
Today as a society there are so many stressors that we have to deal with on an individual basis such as mental illness, trauma, struggles with addiction, work and relationship stress that can impact our overall ability to function and succeed. Going through any of these struggles alone is a near impossible task and I am happy that you are looking for someone to walk along with you through life's challenges.
Seahorse Counselling bills directly to Blue Cross, CVAP, ICBC, FNHA, Jordan's Principle, Autism Funding, Humanacare and Walmsley.
Creativity and an inner sense of knowing exists within each of us, even if you do not identify as artistic. As a Registered Clinical Counsellor and professional art therapist, I offer creative, sensory and experiential tools and activities to help clients tap into insight and knowledge with less effort and more ease.
Seahorse Counselling bills directly to Blue Cross, CVAP, ICBC, FNHA, Jordan's Principle, Autism Funding, Humanacare and Walmsley.
Creativity and an inner sense of knowing exists within each of us, even if you do not identify as artistic. As a Registered Clinical Counsellor and professional art therapist, I offer creative, sensory and experiential tools and activities to help clients tap into insight and knowledge with less effort and more ease.
Although I am also a couples counsellor, I work primarily with those who have experienced trauma. Trauma is the experience of being emotionally and psychologically overwhelmed and overcome for weeks, months, or years by adverse childhood experiences and adult traumatic events. My focus is always on the present and a hopeful future - how can those debilitated by anxiety, shame, poor self-worth, child sexual abuse, c-PTSD and PTSD, and dissociative disorders including Dissociative Identity Disorder, become healthy enough to meet their own needs for income, housing, affirming relationships, and wellness - physical, emotional AND mental
Although I am also a couples counsellor, I work primarily with those who have experienced trauma. Trauma is the experience of being emotionally and psychologically overwhelmed and overcome for weeks, months, or years by adverse childhood experiences and adult traumatic events. My focus is always on the present and a hopeful future - how can those debilitated by anxiety, shame, poor self-worth, child sexual abuse, c-PTSD and PTSD, and dissociative disorders including Dissociative Identity Disorder, become healthy enough to meet their own needs for income, housing, affirming relationships, and wellness - physical, emotional AND mental
Reaching out for counselling can feel like a big step, especially when you’ve been carrying a lot on your own. My goal is to offer a warm, genuine, and non-judgmental space where you can slow down, feel heard, and begin making sense of what you’re experiencing.
I believe there is no single path to healing. Together, we’ll explore what has shaped you, recognize the strengths you already carry, and find a pathway forward that feels meaningful and realistic for your life.
Reaching out for counselling can feel like a big step, especially when you’ve been carrying a lot on your own. My goal is to offer a warm, genuine, and non-judgmental space where you can slow down, feel heard, and begin making sense of what you’re experiencing.
I believe there is no single path to healing. Together, we’ll explore what has shaped you, recognize the strengths you already carry, and find a pathway forward that feels meaningful and realistic for your life.
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