The work always starts with building comfort and trust in the therapeutic relationship. Once you’re feeling more comfortable or ready to share, it will be helpful for us to know more about what’s been going on and what brings you to counselling.

Our biggest priority is being an inclusive practice. This means we welcome people of all cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities.

As we learn more about you and the context, we can start working on a plan together.

Often this can include developing tools and techniques to try when out in the real world. This might look like:

• Noticing thought patterns and learning to challenge and re-frame them to new ways of thinking. This, over time, can help to re-frame your outlook on difficult situations that may arise

• Learning about and practicing new coping skills so manage things like emotional distress, overwhelm, and communication struggles

• Practicing ways of showing up and/ or responding in situations that feel hard and intimidating

• Planning for challenging circumstances so you feel more prepared to face them on your own

We are flexible with our counselling sessions and want you to feel comfortable. If you feel more comfortable with a parent or loved on in the room, we are more than happy to see you and them together. We also can do walk and talk sessions if you prefer to be in nature, outside of an office setting.