Connection - Compassion - Community
Connection - Compassion - Community
The aim of my practice is to provide you with a safe, inclusive and supportive space. Where you can share your story and explore where you'd like for your story to go - all with a gentle emphasis on your overall well-being.
Your first step of reaching out for counselling is a difficult one and yet opens you up to experience positive change.
Exploring your story through coaching / counselling, my goal is to walk with you in our
sessions. Our sessions will focus on you - your challenges, your goals, the impact that they have in your life, and creating a space to allow for change and growth.
With a client-centered (person-centered) approach, I will partner with you as you take each step of your journey, and support you as you explore, connect, create expansion and growth to help facilitate change and healing.
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Counselling is a therapy that possesses many modalities to support a client. It is a process where an individual, couple or family meet with a trained professional counsellor to talk about issues and problems that they are facing in their lives.
Counselling is a form of talk therapy wherein a licensed counsellor sits down with a client to help them work through their issues in a safe, confidential environment. The client discusses their issues with the counsellor in depth, helping them to work through these issues and create space for change their lives.
Life / Wellness coaching is about partnering with our clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching is a collaborative relationship between a certified life / wellness coach and a client looking for self-discovery, self-awareness and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment.
Coaching focuses on the present and how to move into a desired future. Sometimes the past is touched on in order to gain understanding of the present, but coaching doesn’t to attempt to unearth and heal wounds.
Counsellors and therapists can explore a client’s history which allows us to support support the healing of a person’s traumas, experiences, events, challenges, disruptions and so much more. Counsellors are trained in therapeutic interventions and trauma processing in order to facilitate a client’s understanding and healing. Counsellors also provide support for those with addictions and mental health disorders.
- Registered Professional Counsellor (RPC-C) and member of the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
- EFT Practitioner - Level 3
- Traumatic Loss & Grief Facilitator
- Owner of CoveWell Counselling
My name is Heather and I am a Registered Professional Counsellor (RPC-C #4451), a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with the Association of Cooperative Counsellors of Canada (ACCT) #3067, and a member of the Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association (#11246085). Your first step of reaching out for counselling can be a difficult one and yet opens you up to experience positive change. As your counsellor, I aim to be a compassionate companion, walking alongside you on your journey of healing. I am available to meet in person, as well as offer the option to walk and talk, telephone sessions, or online virtual video counselling. By creating a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental space, I aim to counsel with compassion, and connection and creating space for change and growth.
I am a long-time resident of the Mt. Seymour / Deep Cove area, and my passion and purpose in life has been helping others. I enjoy connecting with people, and listening from a place of kindness and compassion, with the hope of continuing to create and contribute to our community, a space for supporting one's journey and overall well-being. My educational background and work experience consist of having worked in the medical field in the following areas: pediatric lab/pathology, radiology, and long-term care. In addition, I have studied and worked in the social work field and early childhood education. In 2019, I was diagnosed with some autoimmune conditions that resulted in my retirement as a medical laboratory assistant; but I remained in the healthcare field in an administrative role in radiology and long-term care. It was during my time there; I began reflecting and realized just how much I missed working with people directly and decided to stay in the helping field and pursue a career as a Counsellor and a Life Coach. Upon my return to school, I discovered just how passionate I am about clinical counselling, and it has passionately called out to me, allowing for personal growth while being a resource to others.
Empirically-supported perspectives guide my practice including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy. I believe in the potential for healing associated with Somatic Therapy, Therapeutic Release Sessions, Eco-Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) also known as "Tapping", Gottman's Theory and mindfulness-based practices.
A combination of these theories allows me to tailor therapy for each individual I meet to support short-term, vital skill-building interventions coupled with more in-depth, experiential approaches.
Areas of Specialties
- Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) also known as tapping.
- Reintegration after serious medical illness or after a diagnosis of a chronic illness.
- Supporting families with a child(ren) with neuro-differences & learning differences.
- Supporting Care Givers with loved ones who are in long term care, palliative care, chronic or acute illnesses.
- Anxiety
- Grief and Loss
- Career Changes & Transitions
CoveWell Counselling
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