Thank you for finding your way to Fairweather Counselling. I would like to acknowledge that I live, work, and play on the unceded territory of the Stz’uminus and Snuneymux people. Uy’ skweyul.
I am a body-centered trauma therapist who was born and raised on Vancouver Island. I am grateful to have worked therapeutically on Vancouver Island since 2008.
Fairweather Counselling Currently Offers:
Individual Counselling: I offer person-centred, strength-based services to explore anxiety, low mood, OCD, trauma healing, relationships, and sexuality.
Youth Counselling 12+: I offer non-judgemental, youth driven services to support youth who are struggling with anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, stress, disordered eating, and LGBTQIA2+/gender identity/questioning.
Family and Parent Counselling: I offer family services that uses an Emotion Focused Family Therapy lens to enhance family communication, boundaries, and connection. I work with adult children and parents as well as youth and parents.
Relationship Counselling: I offer relationship counselling (diverse relationships included) that focuses on enhancing communication, connection, boundaries, affection, and play.
LGBTQIA2+ Affirming Counselling: I offer a safe space to explore sexuality, gender identity, and the umbrella of diverse expressions within the community.
You may be experiencing a current crisis, exploring life changes, or examining long standing patterns that you want to shift; I look forward to supporting you on this path.
PTSD
Anxiety/OCD
Chronic stress
Attachment patterns
Encompassing the sex positive community, sexuality, and gender identity
Building meaningful relationships
LGBTQIA2+ relationships including poly and kink
Dealing with family conflict and parenting challenges
Addictions and disordered eating
Low self esteem
Navigating life transitions
to go to the heart of each emotion, recognizing that emotions connect the body and mind, the past and present, and our biology and life story
to address sensory and movement experience particularly as this domain relates to trauma and early attachment issues
to discover habitual patterns of relating and to realize new ways of connecting
to promote radical inclusivity, a means to embrace all of reality as it is
to address how we give meaning to our lives
to allow whatever arises in relationship to promote deeper connection
to change unhelpful beliefs about yourself, others, and the world