WELCOME!
We all experience pain, joy, suffering, and growth in our lives, and a lot of it happens in relationships. I believe that the counselling relationship can be very powerful in giving us opportunities to experience healing and growth. My approach to therapy is to provide you with acceptance, support, and understanding in order to help you work toward better mental health and well-being.
About Me
One of my favourite things about counselling is getting to know people and being a part of their journeys. I love to see the growth that happens when you give people space to be themselves, to hurt, to heal, and to dream. Helping people experience their inherent value and move towards growth and healing is my passion. I chose to become a counsellor after spending a lot of time with marginalized people and seeing what an impact connection, acceptance, and understanding can have.
Counselling gives us space to address challenging experiences and parts of ourselves that can be hard to make time for in the normal course of life. We can explore beliefs that we have about ourselves, others, and the world and how those beliefs impact the ways that we interact and cope. We can also explore how our culture, intergenerational trauma, and our own experiences shape us and what it all means for us.
I love being a counsellor, and through my interactions with clients I am continually encouraged to work on my own struggles and grow. Clients remind me daily of the strength, love, and resilience of humanity. In my practice, I aim to come alongside people in providing them with acceptance, support, and understanding in order to help them work toward better mental health and well-being.
I understand the vulnerability and courage that it takes to reach out to somebody for help. I want to acknowledge your bravery and strength. I would love to come alongside you as you take this courageous step.
When I am not working I enjoy hiking, reading, cooking and baking, running, and spending time with my partner and three children.
Services
I see children, youth, and adults for individual, couples, or family counselling primarily focused on depression, anxiety, anger, trauma, abuse, self-esteem, grief, loss, stress, life transitions, communication, conflict management, and borderline personality disorder. I also design and facilitate educational and therapeutic groups and workshops.
Sessions are available in-person, online, or by telephone.
Qualifications
A designation of BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellors (#17344) and Canadian Certified Counsellor (#1004620), and I have a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and experience with a wide range of clients from working at Child and Youth Mental Health, Community services, and private practice. My approach to therapy is trauma-informed, humanistic, inclusive, and culturally sensitive. I draw from several theories in order to support each individual grow and heal, including but not limited to Cognitive-behavioral therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy. I am currently working on training in addictions.
Additional Training:
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
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Externship in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
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Core and Advanced Emotion-Focused Family Therapy
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 and 2
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Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for adolescents
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Sandtray Therapy
Pricing
$150 plus $7.50 GST
Per 50 minute Individual Session*
$160 plus $8.00 GST
Per 50 minute Couple or Family Session*
$240 plus $12.00 GST
Per 70 minute Couple Session*
*Fees based off the recommendations put forth by the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
I offer a limited number of reduced rate sessions ($75 plus GST). Please do not hesitate to inquire about reduced session fees.
Many insurance companies/workplaces (like Pacific Blue Cross, Sunlife Insurance, Great West Life, Green Shield Insurance, and Chambers of Commerce insurance) provide coverage for sessions with Registered Clinical Counsellors. Please look into your insurance policy to see if you're covered. Most extended benefits programs require the client to pay and submit their receipt.
I am registered with a number of Employee and Family Assistance Programs. These include FNHA, CVAP, Arete, Brown Crawshaw, FSEAP, WorkBC, Canada Life, and ICBC.
I respectfully acknowledge that Cranbrook is within the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Ktunaxa people.
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Contact
#260-1311 2nd St N
Cranbrook, BC
Kootenay Therapy Center
250-426-4629
Counselling with Angela
778-687-3980 (phone or text)