Vanessa (she/her) is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Canadian Certified Counsellor, Certified yoga teacher, and mom to 3 children. She has experience working with children who have faced many forms of adversity with family violence and mental health complexities. In the past, she guided adventure-based activities and led group therapy for youth struggling with addictions. She has specialized training in perinatal mental health. This includes perinatal anxiety, perinatal depression, perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder, perinatal PTSD, bipolar mood disorders, and perinatal/postpartum psychosis. Perinatal mental health also includes birth trauma, postpartum rage, suicidal ideation, pregnancy and infant loss, fertility challenges, guilt, identity shifts, and adjusting to parenthood.

Vanessa offers a grounded, non-judgemental, trauma-informed, collaborative approach that focuses on your lived experiences. She does not shy away from the difficult parts of the healing process, but will move through them safely, with curiosity, and in a way that honours your story.

Vanessa integrates the following therapeutic modalities into her practice: Narrative therapy, Solution-focused therapy, Somatic therapy, Mindfulness, Nature therapy, Attachment theory, and a little bit of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).

Whether she is on a mountain or in an office; she is honoured to hear people’s stories and help them navigate meaningful change in their lives.

Vanessa acknowledges that she lives, works, and plays on the unceded Witsuwit’en territory.

Vanessa (she/her) is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Canadian Certified Counsellor, Certified y... Read More