Your counselling experience
Good therapy challenges you to take risks. It helps connecting you to your strengths. It builds courage and confidence to support and sustain meaningful change. I work with you to foster a new, more hopeful perspective on yourself and your opportunities for change. As the therapeutic alliance grows, so do your opportunities for real growth, greater self understanding, and acceptance. My services reach across all regions of British Columbia and beyond (including Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and the territories) with remote online counselling and phone counselling services.
Grief and Loss
It's often difficult to imagine life without your loved one. I understand the unique challenges grief presents and offer compassionate support as well as practical strategies to get you through this difficult time. Grieving is living life in small doses. I bring both personal and professional experience to this challenge.
ADHD Coaching
Typical life challenges and hassles are often exacerbated by unmanaged ADHD. Learn to address common roadblocks to staying focused, getting organized, and managing tough emotions.
Parent Coaching, Couples Therapy, and Family Therapy
I work with couples who want to support each other to meet the challenge of parenting their kids from early (infant, primary) years through youth and young adulthood. I've worked for many years with single parent and blended/step-families to address their unique challenges with communications and gain cooperation across family lines. I also work with grandparents taking on the rearing of grandchildren through family transitions linked to addiction, mental or physical illness. I've worked with foster parents and extended family members to support children in care, many of whom have complex needs that require special accommodations and nurturance. I'm also an approved service provider in BC for families with autistic children.
Life Transitions, Impacts of inequality, and Healing from abuse
I work with women experiencing challenges stemming from changes in health, advocating for themselves with medical professionals, or dealing with emotional and practical overload and inequity in relationships. I also work with women who have experienced violence and other forms of abuse in relationships, recent and past. I've worked with adults across the lifespan who struggle to manage new roles and responsibilities as changes or losses occur with work or personal life. I've also worked with many families whose adult children struggle to gain independence and take risks necessary to succeed at school or work while still maintaining good relationships with people they love.
"We live what we pay attention to."
- Maureen Manning, RCC-ACS Counsellor, Balanced Minds Counselling