Stress Therapists in Kentville, NS

Life can be difficult and overwhelming. Counselling provides an opportunity to explore your life, yourself, and your relationships in a supported, non-judgmental, and safe space. It recognizes your unique, personal story while helping you understand the shared human experience of life's challenges. You'll be supported in many ways including, fostering greater self awareness, understanding your emotions, easing stress and anxiety, incorporating healthy behaviours, cultivating new coping strategies / problem-solving / decision-making skills, finding your meaning & purpose, and improving your relationship with yourself & others.

Interior Sanctuary Counselling is rooted in connecting people to themselves in order to find peace and meaning, connecting them to nature and spirituality, and supporting couples and families in bringing peace and stability to their relationships. Creating a sense of "home" in our minds, bodies, relationships, and family systems helps to reduce feelings of loneliness. Buddhist psychology and spirituality are part of my therapeutic approach. Meditation helps reduce stress and increase insight, whilst learning the skills to adapt to change and recognizing the interconnectedness of all life can help to heal our sense of isolation.

Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed? That it’s hard to find balance in your life? Talk therapy can help, even if it feels daunting at first. As a Registered Clinical Psychologist, I have years of experience to help you develop skills and resiliency to cope with difficulties in life. I work with adults (age 19+) and older adults (age 65+) and provide treatment for a wide range of issues, including stress, depression, anxiety, PTSD, family/relationship issues, caregiving stress, and sleep. In my practice, I strive to create a safe space that is free of judgment and build a collaborative, trusting relationship.

Stories—the stories we tell ourselves—are powerful, and yet we can change them. Often, the first step toward change is being open to learning about yourself and the roles you play in your stories. It takes courage to do this work. I’m here to guide you on your journey of self-understanding, acceptance, and empowerment in a safe and supportive environment. As a therapist, I’ll meet you where you are. Whether you have never been to therapy or have lots of experience, we’ll focus on what is important to you and help you gain a new perspective on your life.

Are you feeling lost or overwhelmed or stuck? Have you experienced trauma or loss? Is anxiety impacting your daily life? Do you find yourself asking “Who am I?” or “What do I want my life to be?” I can offer you a calm and quiet space where I use an integrative approach to therapy, drawing on many different strategies to meet the unique needs of each individual. Art is a powerful tool that I use sometimes to help clients express and accept feelings; to explore a sense of self; and to reduce stress. Mindfulness, nature-based therapies, and a trauma-informed approach are also part of my practice.

Whether you are a child, pre-teen, adolescent or young adult, all stages of life have different challenges. Currently my work focuses on supporting children, adolescents and young adults who are experiencing emotional difficulties and other feelings of psychological distress that may lead to feeling isolated, stressed, sad, anxious, and overwhelmed. The overall goal is to help recognize and verbalize feelings, identify typical behavior patterns, defenses and inner conflicts in order to reduce symptoms, provide insight and improve daily functioning and quality of life.

I support individuals and couples who want to improve their relationships, and adults and teens who experience anxiety, depression, effects of trauma, or a life transition. I also enjoy working with university professors and students, immigrants, neurodiverse, and 2SLGBTQ+ clients. Life’s challenges can be overwhelming and I know from experience that reaching out for help can be scary. I also know that therapy can be life changing. My counselling style is gentle and compassionate, geared to help you gain a deeper understanding of the roots of your distress, cultivate self-acceptance, and foster personal and relationship growth.

If you're feeling stuck, I can help you understand this and make changes to improve your life. Our sessions will be supportive, affirming, and non-judgmental. I look forward to hearing about things that are going well in your life and areas you want to improve. Together, we will identify solutions to the problems that you’re facing and make a plan to work through them.

Christina works as a counsellor at Acadia University. Her areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, eating disorders, musician's mental health, relationships, grief and loss, spirituality, and yoga philosophy (including the practice of pranayama - breath control). She is a certified yoga instructor and former professional musician. In 2022, she was an associate professor for the School of Music for Acadia University. Previously, Christina worked as the child and youth therapist for eating disorders Nova Scotia and as the eating disorders therapist for Child and Youth Mental Health in Duncan, BC.

As a growing private practice located in the beautiful Annapolis Valley, our clinic is based on attachment principles that focus on healthy relationships across the life span. We know that the hardest step is initially reaching out looking for support. Whether you looking for help through grief and loss, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression & loneliness, couple & marriage work or fatigue and chronic exhaustion, we strive to provide you with the resources and support you need. We offer our services both in person or online. We also offer a free level of counselling through our intern programs. Connect with us today for more info

I am here to assist you on your journey, be it working with psychosomatic symptoms, grief, depression/anxiety, soul loss, relationship issues, trauma/PTSD, personal growth/transitions, intergenerational patterns, abuse history, spiritual searching. I am here to assist getting to the root of what you are trying to resolve and transform.

Accepting new clients! Are you struggling to find a disordered eating therapist who actually gets it? Are you tired of food and eating taking over your life? If you’re looking to make peace with food once and for all, free yourself from disordered eating, and ditch diet culture, then you’ve come to the right place. Here, your body size or weight will be respected just the way it is. You will explore what it means to eat according to your own internal wisdom instead of some else’s expectation. You will receive eating disorder recovery support that is realistic and empathetic.

Dr. Clement is a licensed Clinical Psychologist with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Michigan School of Professional Psychology and a Master's in Forensic Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Clement’s training is grounded in humanistic and existential theory, which she considers to be at the core of her therapeutic approach with clients. However, she also integrates theories of mind/body science with psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness-based approaches. She also has expertise in several trauma-focused therapies including EMDR, CPT, and PE.

I love to work with highly sensitive people at a stage where they want to drop the toxic drama and begin to engage in life rather than react to it. I love working with couples and individuals who need a different framework because their current model of the world isn't working anymore. In the second half of life, we look to relate to the world, not manage it.

Accepting new clients. Do you find yourself struggling on your journey through life? Are you struggling with ADHD patterns, such as organization, motivation, social relationships, or focus? These challenges can start to impact work, home life, productivity, relationships, and self-image. Counselling can provide support, tools, and perspective in what ADHD means for you and the impact it has on your life. Together, we can work to address your challenges and focus on helping you to find fulfillment in life. I offer a place for you, no matter where you are in life. A diagnosis of ADHD is not necessary to access services.

With over 10 years experience as a trauma therapist, my practice is strongly committed to you and your needs for support and healing. I am especially passionate about working with folks in the perinatal period, which includes pregnancy, post-partum, and the early years of parenting. I have both clinical training and lived experience in navigating the perinatal period, and genuinely grasp the challenges of this time where folks are often bombarded with information and advice from the internet, social media, health and social systems, family members, and friends; much of which can feel more overwhelming than helpful.

I am a Clinical Therapist working with families and children, age 5-10. As school begins many issues kids put aside for their summer begin to resurface - peer pressures, bullying, learning issues, and self esteem. Children are often dealing with parental separation, divorce, remarriage and family deaths. Social media is a mixed blessing bringing children into contact with adult worlds - floods, wild fires, rising costs of everyday living; when we adults are concerned, our children are affected. No surprise, they are now experiencing high levels of anxiety, leading to moodiness, defiance, poor sleep and school problems.

​ My goal is to provide therapeutic services that recognize life can be overwhelming, and offer an approach that puts you in the driver's seat while utilizing best practices. 

I believe the way in which we each uniquely interpret our world informs our experience in it. In our work together, part of my role is to walk along side you while we work to better understand your inner experiences, find ways to attend to your needs and move towards healing. I strive to provide an environment which feels safe, warm, nonjudgmental, and where you feel comfortable to show up exactly as you are. I strongly believe that the strength of our relationships with others and sense of security within those relationships has a tremendous impact on our mental health and well-being.