COUNSELLING
JENNIFER MANSELL
Registered Social Worker
Jennifer is a Registered Social Worker with 25 years of experience working with a wide range of clients. Jennifer supports her clients to connect with their own innate wisdom and sense of agency in their lives. She recognizes the importance of acknowledging the sociocultural factors which impact clients’ experiences. Jennifer’s skills lie in working relationally, whether it be through fostering curiosity and compassion toward oneself, working with couples in crisis or multi-stressed families. She meets her clients with personal transparency, warmth and humour.
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Jennifer is a Registered Social Worker with 25 years of experience working with a wide range of clients. Jennifer supports her clients to connect with their own innate wisdom and sense of agency in their lives. She recognizes the importance of acknowledging the sociocultural factors which impact clients’ experiences.
Jennifer’s counselling style is eclectic, incorporating her skills and training in post modern approaches (narrative therapy), somatic approaches (Hakomi and yoga therapy), feminist approaches, collaborative family therapy, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), attachment-based parenting, as well as mindfulness-based approaches. She has been heavily influenced by her teachers and mentors both in the fields of counselling and yoga/mindfulness. She incorporates a feminist, systemic and trauma-informed lens into her practice. Jennifer meets her clients with personal transparency, warmth and humour.
Jennifer’s current specialized interests are mindfulness-based and emotionally-focused couples therapy, perinatal and maternal mental health, family therapy, and somatic therapies including Hakomi.
Jennifer’s personal experience with postpartum depression deepened her awareness and expanded her capacity to empathize with and support mothers with young children. She is passionate about promoting and supporting maternal mental health; helping mothers to ride the wave of bliss and exhaustion during this unique time period, to find meaning and support amidst the messiness, and to maintain a compassionate relationship with oneself during this time.
When she is not at work, Jennifer can be found enjoying the west coast lifestyle with her 2 children, savouring a coffee in the sunshine, or riding her bike through the forest trails.
EDUCATION & TRAINING:
+ Master of Social Work (Specialization: Clinical Practice) – University of Calgary
+ Bachelor of Social Work, With Distinction – University of Victoria, British Columbia
+ Internship (Family Therapy) with Dr. Karl Tomm – Calgary Family Therapy Centre
+ Hakomi Body-Centred Psychotherapy, 300 hours – Hakomi Institute Calgary
+ Yoga Therapy – Mount Royal University, Calgary
+ Yoga Teacher Certification – Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Kerala, IndiaPROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
+ Alberta College of Social Workers, 2003-2015
+ British Columbia College of Social Workers, since 2015
+ British Columbia Association of Social Workers since 2016
MARNY ELLIOTT
Parent Coach and Relationship Counsellor
Certified in the Nurtured Heart Approach® and Spiritual Psychotherapy, Marny supports parents, individuals, and couples to create nourishing relationships and strong emotional foundations for themselves and their children. With a client-centered and strength-based focus, she supports others to more successfully manage life’s changes and challenges. Those experiencing a life transition or struggling with limiting beliefs, repetitive patterns, and unproductive behaviors can find a safe, non-judgmental space to gain awareness, resilience, and tools. Her goal is to bring compassion, sensitivity, clarity, and diverse expertise to those seeking to experience greater joy and fulfillment.
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Certified in the Nurtured Heart Approach® and Spiritual Psychotherapy, Marny supports parents, individuals, and couples to create nourishing relationships and strong emotional foundations for themselves and their children. With a client-centered and strength-based focus, she supports others to more successfully manage life’s stresses, changes, and challenges.
Those experiencing a life transition or struggling with limiting beliefs, patterns, and behaviors can find a safe, non-judgmental space to gain awareness, resilience, and tools. Her goal is to bring compassion, sensitivity, and diverse expertise to those seeking clarity, calm, and connection to experience greater joy and fulfillment.
Marny uses the Nurtured Heart Approach® (NHA) as a foundation to help adults with children in their lives build a roadmap to greater success. Through a strong relationship and resilient inner strength, children’s behaviour can shift as can dynamics in the home and/or classroom. She empowers her clients with a greater understanding of adult-child dynamics, skills to reach their goals, and confidence to effectively maintain long-term balance.
In working with individuals, Marny trusts that people know what is best for themselves. She sees her role as a guide to help others connect with that self-awareness and wisdom. She aims to provide a holistic approach, drawing on diverse skills/training, to shift the roles, beliefs, experiences, and barriers that prevent us from thriving in our most important relationship – the one we have with ourselves.
Interpersonal relationships provide a profound opportunity to learn about ourselves and each other. In working with couples, Marny helps partners become more aware of how they contribute to issues, get in touch with deeper needs, and begin a path toward both loving and letting go. Through open, compassionate communication and honest self-reflection, couples can reduce negative patterns and love more consciously.
For more details, please visit www.joywithin.ca
SUZAN MOLDENHAUER
Registered Professional Counsellor
I offer individual counselling for people who are struggling with issues around eating and building successful relationships as well as couples counselling for those who need help making changes in their relationship. My therapeutic style is characterized with warmth, empathy, humour, and compassion. I want you to feel empowered, find meaning, and reclaim your life. If you are looking for a counsellor to help you with issues around eating or with your relationship, I can help.
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If you are looking for help with food or body image struggles, or are looking to overcome a relationship problem, Suzan can help.
Suzan specializes in working with individuals struggling with disordered eating and eating disorders. With a client-centered and compassionate approach, she creates a safe and non-judgemental space for individuals to explore their relationship with food, body, and self. She works with adolescents and adults to address the underlying emotional and psychological factors that contribute to disordered eating. She helps clients develop coping skills to manage difficult emotions, improve body image, and build a healthy relationship with food and body.
As a relationship counsellor, Suzan believes that the quality of our relationships profoundly impacts our overall well-being and personal growth. Through a strength-based approach, she helps individuals recognize their resilience and inherent strengths, allowing them to create more satisfying and fulfilling relationships.
As a couple’s counsellor, Suzan builds her practice around the highly acclaimed Gottman Method, which focusses on improving friendship, deepening emotional connection, and learning new ways to deal with problems and conflicts in a positive way. Her training through the Gottman Institute provides her with well researched, evidence-based methods to help clients build a better and more fulfilling relationship. She understands that relationships can face various challenges, such as communication breakdowns, trust issues, intimacy concerns, and conflicting values.
With empathy and insight, she guides her clients through these obstacles, empowering them to find understanding and deeper connections.
If you are looking for a counsellor who makes you feel at ease, who’s knowledge you trust, and who works compassionately to support your goals, you’ve come to the right place
RACHEL BULLOCK
Registered Clinical Counsellor
There are times when we feel overwhelmed and lost. We're doing our best, but can't seem to find our way. I can help you to catch your breath, find your strength, and navigate towards wellness. I have years of experience as a Registered Clinical Counsellor helping people with issues such as trauma, anxiety, burnout, low self-worth, and perfectionism. With warmth, expertise, and a down-to-earth approach, I help my clients to build inner peace. To learn more about my services, please see my website at www.rachelbullock.ca.
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Rachel supports adults and adolescents in their journey towards well-being. She has a Master's Degree in Counselling and years of experience helping people with trauma, anxiety, burn out, and more. With warmth, expertise, and a down-to-earth approach, Rachel can help you to find inner strength and deeper connection. To learn more about Rachel and her services, see her website at www.rachelbullock.ca
FOCUS:
+ trauma
+ anxiety and depression
+ burn out
+ low self-worth
+ perfectionism
+ grief and loss
GABRIELLE DURUPT
Canadian Certified Counsellor
I am honoured to work with youth, adults and couples on managing a variety of issues.
I have a special focus on conflict resolution and repair in relationships, and I am passionate about the importance of learning about and setting boundaries that support personal wellbeing.
I am committed to offering compassionate, non-judgemental counselling rooted in CBT, Solution-Focused, IFS, and Mindfulness approaches. I invite you to the comfort of my office or the convenience of an online session. In addition, I am pleased to offer walk and talk therapy where we can benefit from the extraordinary natural spaces available to us here in the Comox Valley. I believe that relationship building and strengthening community are important in supporting personal and wider change.
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With authentic care for people, I bring a compassionate approach to counselling therapy and believe in building an alliance with my clients that supports their individual priorities and needs. I hold an M.A. in Counselling Psychology and an Advanced Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I include Mindfulness techniques and Solution-Focused frameworks to support my practice. I have experience working with youth, adults, and couples, supporting clients through anxiety, eco-distress, depression, grief, emotion-regulation, substance use, stress management, life transitions, and relationship issues.
My current focus includes learning and developing strategies for navigating anxious and depressive thoughts around climate change. I am pleased to offer walk and talk therapy where we can benefit from the extraordinary natural spaces available to us here in the Comox Valley. Nurturing a connection with nature and stimulating the senses can evolve our counselling relationship. I believe that relationship building and strengthening community are important in supporting personal and wider change.
I hold a certificate in collaborative conflict resolution and volunteer at the Community Justice Centre in Courtenay, BC. I am committed to continually learning how to be anti-racist through education, challenging personal bias, and taking action to create meaningful change.
I look forward to meeting with you. Please contact me if you would like to come into the office, meet over Zoom, or if you think walk and talk therapy could be right for you.
CHANDRA BAILEY
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unfulfilled in your life, unsure how to move forward? You are not alone; everyone struggles and needs support sometime. My role as a counsellor is to be a compassionate witness; to ask the right questions so that together we can understand what is working and what is getting in the way of where you want to be. In a nutshell, I want you to feel more fulfilled with who you are, what you do, and how you live.
Please visit www.chandrabailey.ca to connect and learn more about my approach.
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Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unfulfilled in your life; paralyzed with how to move forward? You are not alone, everyone struggles and needs support sometime. Life can throw us all kinds of intense challenges that may leave us feeling disoriented and disconnected; not even recognizing who we are anymore. I believe we all have the capacity to create change with the right support.
That’s why I am committed to creating a non-judgemental space for you to better understand and express yourself in a way that allows you to emerge reconnected to your own inherent wisdom. My role in our working relationship is to be a compassionate witness; to ask the right questions so that together we can understand what is working and what is getting in the way of where you want to be. In a nutshell, I want you to feel more fulfilled with who you are, what you do, and how you live.In our sessions together, I utilize a variety of approaches drawn from my professional training, personal experience, and my Masters in Counselling Psychology. I also incorporate other unique, leading-edge therapies (including EMDR trauma-informed therapy and IFS) which allow me to address your individual needs.
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC and a Certified Canadian Counsellor with the CCPA.I know taking the first step towards creating meaningful change in your life can seem overwhelming or hard but I encourage you to reach out with curiosity and see if we would be a good fit. I look forward to hearing from you.
RILEY BROWN
Registered Professional Counsellor - Candidate
Learn why you do the things you do and how to choose differently through empathetic and evidence-based counselling approaches. Riley is a Registered Professional Counsellor - Candidate with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association.
She offers counselling and therapy to help you overcome anxiety, and break patterns. If you are tired of doubting yourself, your decisions, destroying your relationships, feeling afraid, and overwhelmed, then it is time to make a real, lasting change in your life.
Through compassion, empathy and evidence-based care, Riley teaches you how to trust yourself, gain confidence, manage your emotions, and make choices that leave you feeling good.
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As a Registered Professional Counsellor - Candidate, Riley provides compassionate support and guidance to adults with anxiety and are stuck in patterns that hurt them. Her focus is on creating a safe and non-judgmental space for you to explore emotions, and overcome challenges, while teaching about how the mind works, why we do what we do and how to choose differently.
Riley is committed to helping you gain confidence, trust yourself, regulate emotions, and create the life that you want. She believes in the inherent worth and potential of everyone, and strives to foster a therapeutic relationship built on trust, empathy, and collaboration. With a genuine passion for helping others, Riley uses evidence-based modalities that combine validation, compassion, and psychology which creates change.
She is a Registered Professional Counsellor - Candidate #4692 with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association. Riley works under the supervision of Dr. Elizabeth Scheepers, MPCC-S, MTC, RCS, CPCA#3205; ACCT#2060
She has a Diploma of Professional Counselling and Youth & Family Support Worker Certificate from the Vancouver College of Counsellor Training. Riley is currently completing a BA in Psychology at Thompson River University with plans to complete a Masters in Counselling Psychology.
SERVICES:
Riley provides counselling services for adults over 19 years of age. Her goal is to create a safe and inclusive therapy space that welcomes & affirms individuals of all ages, races, abilities, sexual orientations, gender expressions, backgrounds, and family constellations.
FOCUSES:
+ Anxiety
+ Breaking patterns
+ LGBTQIA2S+ Issues
+ Low Self-Esteem
+ Stress
+ Suicidal Ideation
+ Trauma
MOLLY HOWES
Canadian Certified Counsellor
Molly offers support to individuals struggling with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and life transitions, with a special interest in the highly sensitive person (HSP). She provides a warm, empathetic, and compassionate space for her clients to make sense of their unique experience in the world. Her approach is integrative, relational, and collaborative, with the belief that each person knowns themselves best and has an innate capacity to heal and thrive. Molly utilizes modalities including but not limited to Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness-Based, Attachment-Based, Strength-Based, and Somatic practices.
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Molly offers support to individuals struggling with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and life transitions, with a special interest in the highly sensitive person (HSP). She provides a warm, empathetic, and compassionate space for her clients to make sense of their unique experience in the world. Her approach is integrative, relational, and collaborative, with the belief that each person knowns themselves best and has an innate capacity to heal and thrive. Molly utilizes modalities including but not limited to Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness-Based, Attachment-Based, Strength-Based, and Somatic practices.
As a highly sensitive person herself, Molly understands the challenges that can be present when navigating a world that was not designed for those with a minority temperament. Life can often feel fast-paced and overwhelming, like the volume is turned up on high. Trying to “keep up” can leave one feeling burned out and questioning themselves. Molly assists clients in understanding more about the trait, learning effective strategies for working with it, and exploring how being an HSP has shaped their inner and outer experiences. Through this work of self-discovery, Molly hopes that clients will gain a more balanced, fulfilling, and manageable life, where there is room to see and cherish the beautiful gifts that come with be highly sensitive.
Molly holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the CCPA. Prospective clients are encouraged to reach out for a complimentary 15-minute consultation to determine compatibility for working together. For more information about Molly’s services, please visit mollyhowescounselling.com
TAMMY GUILER
Registered Clinical Social Worker
I believe that great therapy is all about creating a strong connection together. As your therapist, it is my goal to co-create an environment in which you feel heard, understood, and safe. Using evidence-based interventions I can guide and support you in creating meaningful and lasting change. I have over a decade of extensive work experience in a wide range of community and private settings.
I have worked with clients of all ages across the lifespan. I recognize the importance of understanding how our relationships and lived experiences shape who we are, and how they impact the ways we relate to others and the world around us.
My practice focuses on supporting individuals with depression, anxiety, life transitions, trauma, loss/grief, and relationship difficulties. I also have experience working with perinatal mental health, parenting difficulties, and caregiver stress.
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I have a Masters degree in Social Work from McGill University and am a Registered Clinical Social Worker (RCSW) with the British Columbia College of Social Workers. An RCSW is a separate class of registration that recognizes advanced practice skills and clinical knowledge. In addition, an RCSW may assess, diagnose, and treat mental disorders based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
As we collaborate during our work together, I will draw upon my knowledge and training to tailor my approach to best meet your individual needs. I will bring compassion, warmth, and curiosity while we employ tools like mindfulness, reflective practice, body awareness, and the development of coping and regulation skills. I value transparency and want you to understand what we are doing and why, so that I can support you in better knowing yourself, understanding where you are getting stuck, and attaining the goals you have.
After training in various approaches, I have adopted a theoretical orientation that is relational, experiential, attachment-focused, and trauma-informed. When working together, I draw heavily from my training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), with the incorporation of other therapeutic modalities as our work together develops to best meet your needs.
I am also a certified facilitator for Circle of Security Parenting. This certification along with my other attachment focused training and experience, enable me to effectively support those in the early stages of parenthood and/or experiencing parenting struggles.
To learn more, please visit https://www.shorepinecounselling.com
