Discover Yourself
Move towards a life path aligned with your core values, meaning, and purpose.
About Sunbow Counselling
My Approach
My therapy approach is person-centred, strength-based, and trauma-informed: you are the expert in your life and we will meet where you are at. We will work together at a pace and in a direction that feels right for you. As your capacity grows, I’ll work alongside you as challenging emotions, thoughts and feelings arise. You do not have to go through them alone.
Traditional talk therapies are not the only way to explore your experiences. I often use somatic and mindfulness-based practices, art, storytelling, journaling, metaphor and imagery to reach a deeper understanding. Together we will explore your experiences, thoughts, memories, and feelings holistically incorporating various theories, modalities, and practices (as you feel comfortable) to help restore and balance your nervous system, your internal and external resources, strengths, and connections to enable healing.
I work from a place of non-judgement and acceptance for who we are and why we do the things we do. We learn to cope with the world in certain ways because we had to do so, maybe early on as a child and throughout our lives to feel safe from threat or harm. Humans have an amazing capacity for resilience, strength, perseverance, and surviving! But there comes a time when some unconscious or conscious strategies and patterns (like anxiety, numbing, people pleasing, perfectionism, etc.) are no longer working – when they become disruptive, harmful, or painful – and it becomes time to create new ways of coping and engaging with yourself, within your relationships, and the world around you. I believe that everyone has the capacity to change unwanted thoughts, behaviours, and actions if given an opportunity to explore them in a safe and supportive environment. I believe in your ability to live the life you want to live and would be honoured to walk alongside you on your journey.
I draw upon the wisdom of a variety of theories and modalities to inform my therapeutic approach as we work to address your unique needs and interests.
These include:
· Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
· Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
· Somatic and mindfulness-based practices
Your path to healing and a better life may not be smooth, it may not be straight forward, and maybe not very clear or the easiest route. We can work together to find the little patches of light that can help to guide your way.
More About Sunbow Counselling
Areas of Focus
Counselling can Help!
Areas of Focus
Life Transitions
Trauma
Addictive Behaviours
Anxiety
Depression
Grief and Loss
Burnout & Compassion Fatigue Interpersonal Challenges
Family & Parenting Challenges
Stress & Coping
What to Expect
Counselling can Help!
Areas of Focus
In our work together, I’ll invite you to:· Develop a greater awareness of your thoughts, beliefs and values· Reconnect to your body’s wisdom and befriend your emotions· Create and integrate new emotional and felt experiences in a safer environment, so that new patterns start to emerge· Build your emotional and nervous system regulation “
In our work together, I’ll invite you to:· Develop a greater awareness of your thoughts, beliefs and values· Reconnect to your body’s wisdom and befriend your emotions· Create and integrate new emotional and felt experiences in a safer environment, so that new patterns start to emerge· Build your emotional and nervous system regulation “tool kits” so you feel equipped to take on challenges· Navigate uncertainty, transition, pain and grief to build resilience · Shift the patterns that are holding you back from the life and relationships you really want.
I’ll make suggestions for exercises or visualizations that we can do together, but it’s always up to you to decide what feels right for you. Part of the work is learning to tune into what is a “yes” and what is a “no”.
Counselling can Help!
Counselling can Help!
Counselling can Help!
Counselling can help to:
· Increase self-trust and self-worth
· Identify your needs, listen to your inner voice and set healthy boundaries
· Work with your ‘attachments style’ to help you find more ease in your relationships and daily life
· Manage frustrations and heartache that have surfaced from expereinces of harm and pain
· Take action
Counselling can help to:
· Increase self-trust and self-worth
· Identify your needs, listen to your inner voice and set healthy boundaries
· Work with your ‘attachments style’ to help you find more ease in your relationships and daily life
· Manage frustrations and heartache that have surfaced from expereinces of harm and pain
· Take action towards a life path aligned with your core values, meaning, and purpose
· Reconnect to your resources, community, faith/spirit, and what’s important in your life.
Healing may not be so much about getting better as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
Land Acknowledgement
Like many of you, I am an uninvited guest on these lands, my ancestors are from Sweeden, Ireland, Scotland and Spain. I humbly acknowledge that I live and operate my private counselling practice on the unceded traditional land of the Skwxwu7mesh People, known as Squamish, BC.
I work in allyship with the LQBTQ2SIA+ community, striving to foster safer spaces for all humans
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and an active member in good standing of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and the Canadian Counselling Psychotherapy Association.