Therapists in V8K

I have been helping children, teenagers and adults with their mental health concerns since 1987. If you are looking for support in managing issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationships, parenting, school, or addiction, or are a partner of an addict needing support, I have experience in helping you and families navigate a path forward. My clients often feel stuck or out of control, and anxiety can often lead to depression and other mental health challenges. Together we can unpack your stressors and concerns, and develop an individualized treatment plan.

I work with clients of all ages and specialize in working with adults as well as seniors of all gender. Whether you are going through a difficult time in life or looking for creatives ways to live, together we can work on : Overcoming stress or lack of motivation or low self-esteem, Looking into your daily routine to turn your day from meh to exciting, Dealing with loss or grief or a significant life event, Family dynamics, parenting and overwhelmed parent/caregiver, Frustration in or ending a relationship with a partner, Making a change in your career path or trying to decide on a new one, Exploring your creative self.

My goal is to help you reframe your personal story through an archetypal lens. I provide guidance for all women searching for insight, personal growth, inner wisdom and empowerment to help you better understand your life purpose, make more conscious choices, and gain clarity and insight on your journey.

I am an experienced therapist, working with individuals and couples. I am open to helping you with a wide range of issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, relationships, self-care, spirituality, life purpose, end of life issues, ageing, stress, parenting, work, vocation, sexual orientation, transitioning, gender questioning, chronic illness, sexual abuse, and the residue of early childhood experiences. If you don’t see your concern here, please feel free to contact me to find out if it’s something I work with. I love to do this work. You can read more at rowanpercy.com

The journey toward healing can be challenging and you don’t have to do it alone. As a counsellor, my goal is to offer you a safe space to belong, be seen and heard, and explore life's challenges together. I will work with you to develop and deepen an awareness of your experiences, understand narratives/patterns that prevent you from making a change, and move towards more preferred ways of being. I have over 5 years of experience working in therapeutic and supportive roles with youth, families, and adults. I specialize in the areas of anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, life transitions & more.

I offer counseling services to individuals, couples and children on Salt Spring Island. My work is personal, compassionate and direct. I stay close to my client’s experience, without judgment, pointing towards opportunities for growth. Life presents us all with challenges and sometimes we need help facing them. We often need a mirror to help us understand how to change outdated behaviors that are just not working or resolve inner conflicts that are keeping us from living a fulfilling life.

I am here to help you look with compassion and gentle curiosity at every aspect of your experience that longs to be seen - from your anxiety, doubts, and insecurities, to your deepest desires and passions. Together we can learn to view yourself and the world around you through eyes of love. If you feel ready to heal the wounds in your heart, and grow both personally and spiritually, then please reach out to me and we can schedule your first free session.

Candice is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) who brings 17 years of therapeutic experience with individuals and families, including children and youth, to her counselling practice.

I understand that looking for support and assistance to deal with your personal challenges is a big step. Let me assure you: it is a positive move in the right direction. I provide effective and meaningful therapy to individuals, couples (gay or straight), groups and their allies. By offering safety, respect and expertise, I can help you transform your life for the better.

Are you experiencing chronic pain? Anxiety? Grief? Trouble sleeping? Or sadness that won’t go away? In Integrative Somatic Therapy, we recognize that we store emotions, memories, and traumas physically in our muscles, which show up in the shallowness of our breath, the tensions we experience in our bodies, and the ways we respond to life circumstances. Here, you will be guided to compassionately move inwards to connect and open to your emotions and memories. Together, we will create a safe space for clarity, insights, and a deeper sense of wellbeing and wholeness to emerge.

I serve adults, children, families and couples working through the complex realities of our time. Finding belonging in our relationships, our sense of self, our sense of purpose within our society, our Earth, our family, and our own life path is a process of connection to innate processes. Utilizing nature and earth-based principles, my practice works to hold space for the client to find their way through the challenges of their life and find gold that brings strength and clarity on their path. I work with grief, belonging, addictions, communications, peacemaking, anxiety, depression and feelings of outsider-hood, and self love.

During our time together I will view the places you may feel stuck or the crises you experience as profound opportunities for growth and change. Darkness can be a necessary part of your passage to something new and ultimately exciting, and asking for support may be an important first step in that direction. Whatever life issue you are currently facing, a session with me provides you with a safe, nurturing space to delve more deeply into who you are and discover what is true and real for you. Sometimes life and emotions are messy! ALL of you is welcome here.

My approach to therapy is through a deeply engaged, collaborative, strengths-based process whereby my client and I explore their childhood and family history, look at present challenges, and learn ways to assist my client's growth. I am trained specifically to work with anxiety, depression, trauma and ptsd, self-worth issues, mid-life transitions, and questions of meaning and meaninglessness in life. The journey toward the authentic Self can be daunting and fear-inducing; my job is to guide my client through the darkness to the other side, where joy, self-acceptance, and vitality is the reality.

I believe we all have a blueprint for health within us. My goal is to support you in your intentions for your life so that you can live connected to the wealth of resource within you and around you. I respect and trust that you intrinsically know what is best for you. My role is to support you to come into deeper contact with your innate wisdom and inner guidance.

Welcome to the counselling services at Celtic Place and Healing Place. Counselling provides a space and opportunity for you to explore thoughts and feelings, behaviours and relationships that may be troubling you or causing difficulty in your life. Counselling also offers a source of support in times of crisis and during difficult times such as you may be experiencing now. Some of the ways in which counselling can be beneficial is through bringing deeper personal insight, helping find better ways of coping with problems and it also can help you improve your relationships.

Finding someone to trust as you are managing through turbulent times is stressful, and can be overwhelming. I thank you for considering me as part of this journey. Specializing in strength-based approaches to assist individuals, families, and couples to find balance in daily living. I work hard to build solid relationships through understanding and trust while offering an opportunity to challenge growth in my clients though healing of the past and paving new paths to the future.

I work virtually with many individuals who are facing struggles with their day to day life including grief, stress, anxiety, depression and major life transitions. If there is an identified issue that you would like to work through we can tackle that together, though sometimes there is just a deep desire for life to be easier and to remove the obstacles that we all can find in our way from being truly happy and fully expressed. Whether there are specific concerns or general worries, I can help identify what stands in your way and together we can create a plan to lead you to your most fully expressed version of yourself.

In my work as a Registered Psychotherapist, I work to create a space that is thoughtful, warm and connected. Together we’ll dig deep to explore underlying thoughts, feelings and behaviours to better learn what’s going on, where you might be getting stuck and pathways to move forward. I aim to help you live with a greater sense of authenticity, ease and meaning. I bring a relational, trauma-informed and attachment-based lens to my work.

Professional Counselling, Integrated Therapies, and Heart-Centred Hypnotherapy for couples, groups, and individuals 16 and up. Integrated Therapies create an embodied, trauma-informed space of exploration and connection, for the resolution of trauma, life and relationship patterns, and interpersonal conflict. Sessions seek to reflect, witness and support what is new, emerging and most needed for resolution and growth. As we discover + embrace our own inner 'coding' of language, symbols, meaning and emotion, we find a new engagement with life, ourselves, and those around us, becoming more aware, responsive, and connected from within.