Question 1

What are the benefits of therapy and what can I expect from the counselling process?

Accepted Answer

Therapy offers a space to slow down, reflect, and be met with care and understanding. The counselling process is collaborative, relational, and tailored to you. Sessions unfold at a pace that supports safety and trust, with attention to emotional experience and nervous system responses.

Through therapy, many people gain greater clarity, emotional regulation, and insight into patterns that shape their lives and relationships. Over time, therapy can support reconnection with your needs, values, and sense of self, fostering resilience, self-trust, and a more authentic way of living.

Question 2

Is therapy covered by insurance?

Accepted Answer

My services are covered through Pacific Blue Cross, Sun Life, Claim Secure, Equitable Life of Canada, Greenshield Canada, and Manulife.
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Many employers offer coverage through benefits packages that may partially, or fully, cover the cost of your sessions. Please check your individual coverage plan to see to what extent you are covered. 
Receipts are provided for reimbursement purposes.

Question 3

What are the benefits of virtual counselling and how can I prepare for an online session?

Accepted Answer

Virtual counselling offers flexible, accessible support from the comfort of your own space. It reduces travel time, supports nervous system safety, and allows continuity of care regardless of location. Many clients find it easier to open up when they feel grounded in a familiar environment.

To prepare, choose a private, comfortable space where you feel relatively safe and undisturbed. You may want to have a glass of water, wear comfortable clothing, and allow a few minutes before and after the session to settle. You don’t need to create a perfect setting - what matters most is that the space supports your sense of ease and presence.

Question 4

Is online counselling confidential?

Accepted Answer

Yes, online counselling platforms use secure and encrypted technology to ensure the confidentiality of your sessions. Therapists adhere to strict privacy guidelines to protect your personal information and maintain the highest standards of confidentiality.

Question 5

What is nervous system - oriented therapy?

Accepted Answer

Nervous system - oriented therapy focuses on how stress, trauma, and relational experiences shape the body and emotional responses. Rather than working only cognitively, this approach gently supports regulation, safety, and awareness of bodily signals. It helps reduce overwhelm, shutdown, or reactivity while building a felt sense of steadiness and capacity.

Question 6

How does the therapeutic relationship support healing?

Accepted Answer

Healing often happens through feeling seen, understood, and emotionally met. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a space where safety, trust, and authenticity can be experienced and practiced. This relational foundation supports deeper emotional processing and lasting change.

Question 7

What is AEDP therapy?

Accepted Answer

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach that emphasises safety, emotional processing, and healing through connection. AEDP supports working with emotions in the present moment, transforming distress through attuned relational experiences and strengthening inner resilience and self-compassion.

Question 8

What is transpersonal therapy?

Accepted Answer

Transpersonal therapy honours the emotional, psychological, relational, and existential aspects of being human. It recognises that challenges are often connected to deeper questions of meaning, identity, purpose, and belonging. This approach supports personal growth, self-awareness, and connection to something larger than habitual patterns or survival responses.

Question 9

What is systemic therapy and Bowen’s Family Systems Theory?

Accepted Answer

Systemic therapy looks at challenges in the context of relationships, family dynamics, and larger systems rather than focusing only on the individual. 
Bowen’s Family Systems Theory is a systemic framework that explores how patterns, roles, emotional processes, and intergenerational influences shape how we relate to others and ourselves.

This perspective supports greater awareness, emotional differentiation, and choice, helping people step out of automatic relational patterns and respond more consciously in relationships.

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