Pacific Blue Cross Therapists in Dartmouth, NS
You go to work and do things most people cannot imagine. Either way, you come home carrying more than you show.
Whether you are a paramedic, a police officer, or a professional running on empty the pattern is the same: functioning on the outside, struggling underneath.
For first responders and military members, this work is also personal. I served eight years as a US military reservist. I understand the culture you operate in and why asking for help inside that culture is its own kind of courage.
I am Iffy Nwankwo, Registered Counselling Therapist in Nova Scotia and founder of Hartwell Counselling Therapy Group (HCTG ).
You go to work and do things most people cannot imagine. Either way, you come home carrying more than you show.
Whether you are a paramedic, a police officer, or a professional running on empty the pattern is the same: functioning on the outside, struggling underneath.
For first responders and military members, this work is also personal. I served eight years as a US military reservist. I understand the culture you operate in and why asking for help inside that culture is its own kind of courage.
I am Iffy Nwankwo, Registered Counselling Therapist in Nova Scotia and founder of Hartwell Counselling Therapy Group (HCTG ).
Feeling lost, stuck, or out of alignment in your career? These transitions often stir deeper questions of identity and purpose. I use a feminist, somatic and hands on approach. There’s no quick fix or one right path. In my career counselling, I use a transpersonal, psychospiritual approach that honours your intuition, practical life and the archetypes shaping your journey. Together, we’ll explore your inner landscape and reconnect with what feels truly aligned, so you can move forward with clarity, trust, and a deeper sense of purpose. Instead of endless talk therapy, I use a hands-on action-oriented technique called EFT tapping.
Feeling lost, stuck, or out of alignment in your career? These transitions often stir deeper questions of identity and purpose. I use a feminist, somatic and hands on approach. There’s no quick fix or one right path. In my career counselling, I use a transpersonal, psychospiritual approach that honours your intuition, practical life and the archetypes shaping your journey. Together, we’ll explore your inner landscape and reconnect with what feels truly aligned, so you can move forward with clarity, trust, and a deeper sense of purpose. Instead of endless talk therapy, I use a hands-on action-oriented technique called EFT tapping.
At Your Counselling Ltd, one of our core values is supporting individuals and families in achieving balance, resilience, and overall wellbeing. As a team of dedicated and compassionate mental health professionals, we believe in the power of support, personal reflection, and meaningful connection to help clients navigate life’s challenges and recover from adversity. Our collective approach is grounded in collaboration, respect, and trust. Drawing on both professional expertise and lived experience, our therapists engage clients at all stages of their journey with empathy, insight, and care.
At Your Counselling Ltd, one of our core values is supporting individuals and families in achieving balance, resilience, and overall wellbeing. As a team of dedicated and compassionate mental health professionals, we believe in the power of support, personal reflection, and meaningful connection to help clients navigate life’s challenges and recover from adversity. Our collective approach is grounded in collaboration, respect, and trust. Drawing on both professional expertise and lived experience, our therapists engage clients at all stages of their journey with empathy, insight, and care.
If you're here, you're likely carrying something heavy — persistent worry, difficulty quieting your mind, or the weight of experiences that have stayed with you longer than you'd like. You don't have to keep navigating that alone.
I'm one of the Clinical Directors at Virtual CBT, an established Ontario-based practice now expanding to Nova Scotia. We work with adults and teens navigating anxiety and trauma, and we also offer psychological assessments to help bring clarity to what you're facing. Our Psychologist can assess Autism, ADHD, or a full psycho-diagnostic assessment which covers a full range of different diagnoses.
If you're here, you're likely carrying something heavy — persistent worry, difficulty quieting your mind, or the weight of experiences that have stayed with you longer than you'd like. You don't have to keep navigating that alone.
I'm one of the Clinical Directors at Virtual CBT, an established Ontario-based practice now expanding to Nova Scotia. We work with adults and teens navigating anxiety and trauma, and we also offer psychological assessments to help bring clarity to what you're facing. Our Psychologist can assess Autism, ADHD, or a full psycho-diagnostic assessment which covers a full range of different diagnoses.
Are you having trouble moving past a specific event or feel like you are engaging in destructive thinking patterns or behaviours? Have you begun to explore your attachment style and would like to learn how to become more secure? Therapy is a safe and confidential place where you can share your innermost thoughts and feelings without fear of being judged. My practice aims to highlight your strengths while finding solutions for unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours, helping you to move forward and thrive in the areas of your life which are most important to you.
Are you having trouble moving past a specific event or feel like you are engaging in destructive thinking patterns or behaviours? Have you begun to explore your attachment style and would like to learn how to become more secure? Therapy is a safe and confidential place where you can share your innermost thoughts and feelings without fear of being judged. My practice aims to highlight your strengths while finding solutions for unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviours, helping you to move forward and thrive in the areas of your life which are most important to you.
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September 2026: Currently accepting female clients for virtual counselling across Ontario, Canada.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, workplace stress, self-doubt, trauma, or a major life transition while trying to hold everything together?
I support women navigating these challenges. Many of my clients are high-achieving women who feel emotionally exhausted from constantly holding everything together.
Therapy with me provides a warm, culturally responsive space to process experiences, strengthen boundaries
September 2026: Currently accepting female clients for virtual counselling across Ontario, Canada.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, workplace stress, self-doubt, trauma, or a major life transition while trying to hold everything together?
I support women navigating these challenges. Many of my clients are high-achieving women who feel emotionally exhausted from constantly holding everything together.
Therapy with me provides a warm, culturally responsive space to process experiences, strengthen boundaries
The ability to connect with you is a true privilege, blessing. I have deep passion to consistently improve, offer the highest standards of services, my approach is individualized, culturally, context sensitive. I work with children, teens, students, new graduates, individuals, couples, families. I treat anxiety, panic attacks, depression, grief, post trauma, assist those in life changes. I see my role to create a safe, warm, non judgemental, relaxed space so you find your best self, be motivated to work on your own, carrying out compassion, empathy, a clear understanding of a therapy approach, tools.
The ability to connect with you is a true privilege, blessing. I have deep passion to consistently improve, offer the highest standards of services, my approach is individualized, culturally, context sensitive. I work with children, teens, students, new graduates, individuals, couples, families. I treat anxiety, panic attacks, depression, grief, post trauma, assist those in life changes. I see my role to create a safe, warm, non judgemental, relaxed space so you find your best self, be motivated to work on your own, carrying out compassion, empathy, a clear understanding of a therapy approach, tools.
With over 30 years as a well-regarded psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator at Canada’s leading institutions, I help adults navigate trauma, mood and anxiety disorders, personality challenges, relationship struggles, and stress. I combine expertise with compassion, guiding people to insight, resilience, and lasting change through psychotherapy tailored to your unique personality and needs.
With over 30 years as a well-regarded psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator at Canada’s leading institutions, I help adults navigate trauma, mood and anxiety disorders, personality challenges, relationship struggles, and stress. I combine expertise with compassion, guiding people to insight, resilience, and lasting change through psychotherapy tailored to your unique personality and needs.
Accepting NEW Clients - Hoping to reduce stress, anxiety, or sadness and start to "feeling like yourself" again? Overwhelmed by life's pressures, past traumas, or relationship challenges? Noticing the same patterns or cycles? Want to understand how thoughts and emotion connect to your overall sense of self? Seeking a therapist who gets your values and background, connecting you to your past, present, and future experiences? Let's work to unravel whatever is weighing on you. I'm here for youth, individuals & couples, guiding you through whatever daily and past life brings. Online therapy in ON/SK/AB/BC, Walk and Talk in Calgary area.
Accepting NEW Clients - Hoping to reduce stress, anxiety, or sadness and start to "feeling like yourself" again? Overwhelmed by life's pressures, past traumas, or relationship challenges? Noticing the same patterns or cycles? Want to understand how thoughts and emotion connect to your overall sense of self? Seeking a therapist who gets your values and background, connecting you to your past, present, and future experiences? Let's work to unravel whatever is weighing on you. I'm here for youth, individuals & couples, guiding you through whatever daily and past life brings. Online therapy in ON/SK/AB/BC, Walk and Talk in Calgary area.
You know something needs to change, but you are not sure where to start. Maybe you are exhausted from the pressure of work, running on empty, or moving through a transition that has left you feeling unsteady. I work with adults navigating anxiety, burnout, stress, depression, and life transitions, including career changes, relationship shifts, and those stretching moments of uncertainty about what comes next. If you have spent years putting everyone else first and are ready to understand yourself better and build a life with more clarity and balance, you are in the right place.
You know something needs to change, but you are not sure where to start. Maybe you are exhausted from the pressure of work, running on empty, or moving through a transition that has left you feeling unsteady. I work with adults navigating anxiety, burnout, stress, depression, and life transitions, including career changes, relationship shifts, and those stretching moments of uncertainty about what comes next. If you have spent years putting everyone else first and are ready to understand yourself better and build a life with more clarity and balance, you are in the right place.
Accepting NEW clients - Feel like you're doing everything you’re “supposed to do,” but something still doesn’t feel right? Have a desire to better understand your thoughts, emotions, or patterns, work on building confidence or self-esteem, or find support for your child, relationship, or yourself? Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or like you’re carrying a lot on your own? You don’t need to have it all figured out to begin. You’re not expected to perform, impress, or have the right words, because we'll make sense of it all together. I offer a free consultation call. Daytime and evening availability.
Accepting NEW clients - Feel like you're doing everything you’re “supposed to do,” but something still doesn’t feel right? Have a desire to better understand your thoughts, emotions, or patterns, work on building confidence or self-esteem, or find support for your child, relationship, or yourself? Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or like you’re carrying a lot on your own? You don’t need to have it all figured out to begin. You’re not expected to perform, impress, or have the right words, because we'll make sense of it all together. I offer a free consultation call. Daytime and evening availability.
I work with adults navigating life transitions, including infidelity, separation or divorce, grief, identity shifts, and major relational changes. I also support clients with bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, and complex trauma. I provide sex therapy, including support around desire, intimacy, sexual functioning, communication, and relationship dynamics. I also work with couples navigating ENM, infidelity, intimacy concerns, and relational repair.
I work with adults navigating life transitions, including infidelity, separation or divorce, grief, identity shifts, and major relational changes. I also support clients with bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, and complex trauma. I provide sex therapy, including support around desire, intimacy, sexual functioning, communication, and relationship dynamics. I also work with couples navigating ENM, infidelity, intimacy concerns, and relational repair.
How many people are willing to understand the true feelings in a person's heart? I believe it is easy to define psychological illness, but it is very hard to find out a person's true feelings. This is the biggest challenge for one’s career. With that in mind, I work to understand all feelings and help all my clients learn to work through their difficulties to gradually become internally independent until they no longer need me.
How many people are willing to understand the true feelings in a person's heart? I believe it is easy to define psychological illness, but it is very hard to find out a person's true feelings. This is the biggest challenge for one’s career. With that in mind, I work to understand all feelings and help all my clients learn to work through their difficulties to gradually become internally independent until they no longer need me.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual psychotherapy clinic specializing in Psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach focuses on revealing, understanding, and resolving underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms through evidence-based interventions and a comprehensive treatment plan. With an in-depth collaborative discussion and analysis of unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood until the present day, we can explore how they inform us today to help relieve symptoms and develop targeted strategies to foster change.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual psychotherapy clinic specializing in Psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach focuses on revealing, understanding, and resolving underlying emotions and root causes of symptoms through evidence-based interventions and a comprehensive treatment plan. With an in-depth collaborative discussion and analysis of unconscious thoughts and emotions from childhood until the present day, we can explore how they inform us today to help relieve symptoms and develop targeted strategies to foster change.
You do not have to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Many of the people I work with are navigating something quieter but just as heavy: a transition they did not expect, a pattern they cannot seem to break, a version of themselves they are trying to grow into. I work with children, adolescents, and adults across all stages of life. Whether a child building confidence, a teen finding their footing socially, or an adult moving through change and uncertainty, I meet each person where they are and build from there.
You do not have to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Many of the people I work with are navigating something quieter but just as heavy: a transition they did not expect, a pattern they cannot seem to break, a version of themselves they are trying to grow into. I work with children, adolescents, and adults across all stages of life. Whether a child building confidence, a teen finding their footing socially, or an adult moving through change and uncertainty, I meet each person where they are and build from there.
Hi, welcome! I offer 1:1 perinatal mental health counselling and support groups to women and birthing people dealing with issues such as birth trauma, anxiety and OCD. Internal Family Systems Therapy is my primary modality with emphasis on feminist psychology. I also incorporate Jungian feminine and ancient Goddess archetypes as a powerful tool to aid in bringing awareness to and embodying empowering qualities that may have been forgotten or exiled. In our sessions together we will meet your inner child(ren) and discover what you need(ed) to bring healing to past wounds and wisdom to current challenges.
Hi, welcome! I offer 1:1 perinatal mental health counselling and support groups to women and birthing people dealing with issues such as birth trauma, anxiety and OCD. Internal Family Systems Therapy is my primary modality with emphasis on feminist psychology. I also incorporate Jungian feminine and ancient Goddess archetypes as a powerful tool to aid in bringing awareness to and embodying empowering qualities that may have been forgotten or exiled. In our sessions together we will meet your inner child(ren) and discover what you need(ed) to bring healing to past wounds and wisdom to current challenges.
If therapy hasn’t worked for you before, it may be because conditions like personality disorders, chronic anxiety, and emotional dysregulation require highly specialized treatment. I provide dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) delivered as it was intended.
I take a client-centered approach, tailoring therapy to each individual’s unique needs and goals. As my work is rooted from an integrative approach, I use multiple evidence-based modalities including CBT, and ACT to provide flexible and individualized care.
I work with adults experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, relational issues and many other problems. Reach out today!
If therapy hasn’t worked for you before, it may be because conditions like personality disorders, chronic anxiety, and emotional dysregulation require highly specialized treatment. I provide dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) delivered as it was intended.
I take a client-centered approach, tailoring therapy to each individual’s unique needs and goals. As my work is rooted from an integrative approach, I use multiple evidence-based modalities including CBT, and ACT to provide flexible and individualized care.
I work with adults experiencing trauma, anxiety, depression, relational issues and many other problems. Reach out today!
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual clinic specializing in psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach explores the root causes of symptoms by uncovering and understanding underlying emotions through evidence-based treatment. Through collaborative dialogue, we examine unconscious thoughts and emotions shaped from childhood to the present. We work to relieve symptoms by understanding how these patterns affect current experiences, and create targeted strategies for meaningful change long-term.
The Centre for Psychodynamic Insights is a virtual clinic specializing in psychodynamic psychotherapy. This approach explores the root causes of symptoms by uncovering and understanding underlying emotions through evidence-based treatment. Through collaborative dialogue, we examine unconscious thoughts and emotions shaped from childhood to the present. We work to relieve symptoms by understanding how these patterns affect current experiences, and create targeted strategies for meaningful change long-term.
Humans are social animals; our brains are built for connection. We crave safe relationships to support us to feel, heal, deal, and grow. We all want to be the best version of ourselves, we just may not know what our best self looks like, or, may lack the support and experience required to discover such. When we are supported to identify and address the unmet needs that may block us from feeling like 'our best', we gain a greater sense of self. By understanding the impact of our relationships, attachments, and environments, we are able to truly make sense of the choices we make, and actions we may - or may not - take.
Humans are social animals; our brains are built for connection. We crave safe relationships to support us to feel, heal, deal, and grow. We all want to be the best version of ourselves, we just may not know what our best self looks like, or, may lack the support and experience required to discover such. When we are supported to identify and address the unmet needs that may block us from feeling like 'our best', we gain a greater sense of self. By understanding the impact of our relationships, attachments, and environments, we are able to truly make sense of the choices we make, and actions we may - or may not - take.
Feeling stuck in grief, anxiety, or relationship struggles? You’re not alone—and you’re not broken. Whether it’s your first time in therapy or you’ve tried before and felt unseen, my approach offers something different: real connection, curiosity, and compassion. I bring both professional insight and personal experience to help you feel truly understood. Together, we’ll explore who you are, what you want, and how to build a life that feels meaningful. If you’re ready to stop just coping and start living with purpose, we can begin that journey—together—today.
Feeling stuck in grief, anxiety, or relationship struggles? You’re not alone—and you’re not broken. Whether it’s your first time in therapy or you’ve tried before and felt unseen, my approach offers something different: real connection, curiosity, and compassion. I bring both professional insight and personal experience to help you feel truly understood. Together, we’ll explore who you are, what you want, and how to build a life that feels meaningful. If you’re ready to stop just coping and start living with purpose, we can begin that journey—together—today.
