Holistic, Inclusive, Anti-oppressive Trauma Trained Counsellor and Facilitator
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-to make something better (Ucwalmicwts)
​Call/Text: 778.209.0956​
Serving BC (In-person/online) and Ontario (online)
Accepts Indigenous/First Nations FNHA(BC) clients.
Therapy Services Description
Child and Youth Therapy
Therapy sessions are provided on a weekly or every other week basis with a child/teen (ages 4-17) and will usually include conjoint sessions with their support systems (i.e. parents, caregivers, family, or friends); the amount of caregiver involvement will be dependent on child's circumstances. Whenever possible therapy will include building connection and attachment to healthy adults who will be in the child's life for the long-term and ensuring home and school life are working with therapy work.
Depending on the child's age and therapy goals, the appropriate therapeutic interventions will be utilized. This may include Expressive Play Therapy, Indigenous Focused Oriented Therapy, Land -assisted therapy and /or culturally based interventions.
Teens ages 13+ may consent to services on their own if clinically appropriate.
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Individual Therapy
Therapy sessions are provided on a weekly or every other week. Therapy sessions can be used toward any client goals including working on grief/loss, anxiety, childhood trauma and abuse, ptsd, anger & rage, relationship skills, depression, domestic violence, or parenting skills, post-treatment /recovery. Therapy is client-led and when desired will often incorporate the land, the client's culture , Indigenous Focused Oriented Therapy and/or Expressive Play.
Couples or Con-joint Therapy
Life partners or parenting partners can do therapy together, or both individual and partner therapy. Our approach offers an integrative,trauma-informed way that honors and includes your culture and history and the intersections in your partnership. This approach incorporates all aspects of each person in the partnership, the spirit, emotion, mind, and body, and recognizes the role of intergenerational patterns and traumas. Partner work is often used to strengthen relationships, establish new norms, and heal past losses and harms through connection with each other with the help of the land, and/or play therapy.
Family Therapy
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Families sometimes come together, sometimes as individuals and as also family groups. Our approach offers an integrative,trauma-informed way that honors and includes your culture and history and the intersections in your family or partnership This approach incorporate all aspects of each person in the family, the spirit, emotion, mind, and body and recognizes the role of intergenerational patterns and traumas. Family Therapy work is often used to strengthen relationships, establish new norms, and heal past losses and harms through connection with each other often with the help of the land, and/or play therapy.
All therapy services are provided: in our office and playroom, outside spaces on the land in Lillooet, in the client's community spaces, or via teletherapy (through a live video connection, over the internet).