free 15 min consultation

A good connection with your psychologist is the most important ingredient to successful counselling outcomes. You need to be able to feel safe and comfortable in your counselling sessions, and that is why Compassion Culture offers free 15 minute telephone or video consultations to ensure a good client-counsellor fit.

Individual CounsellinG

Individual counselling sessions are personalized one-on-one, 60 minute counselling sessions with a registered psychologist for those facing current crisis/hardship, difficult life stressors, and/or past trauma that negatively impacts psychological well-being and quality of life. Compassion Culture currently offers these services to both teens & adults. Areas of focus include:

  • Mild to moderate depression

  • Anxiety / fears / phobias

  • Self-esteem / self-worth / confidence

  • Stress management / burnout

  • Life transitions

  • Perfectionism / “people pleasing” recovery 

  • Guilt and shame 

  • Decision making

  • Grief & loss

  • Family of origin / childhood trauma / healing past pain 

  • Insecure attachment

  • Communication, conflict resolution, assertiveness, and boundaries 

COUPLES COUNSELLING

Couples counselling focuses on supporting couples to improve connection, communication, emotional safety, deepen intimacy, resolve conflict & heal their relationship. Couples counselling with Compassion Culture is informed by Emotionally Focused Couples Counselling as well as the Gottman Method.

Emotionally Focused Couples Counselling is all about understanding and improving patterns in how partners emotionally relate to one another. Interventions include empathic listening skills, validating one another’s emotions and experiences, improving emotional understanding, and creating patterns of emotional safety, increasing intimacy, and moving toward secure attachment.

The Gottman Method, grounded in extensive research, utilizes practical tools and exercises that help couples improve their friendship with one another, build/rebuild a solid foundation of trust, respect and productive communication.

Whether you're working through conflict or seeking to enrich your partnership, our compassionate approach can help you work toward your unique relationship needs and goals.

Trauma / Emdr

  • Emotional abuse

  • Physical abuse

  • Spiritual / religious trauma

  • Emotional eating / binge eating

  • Shame

  • Anxiety

  • Childhood attachment trauma

  • Humiliation / bullying

  • Accidents or fearful incidents

  • Traumatic pregnancy loss / birth

  • Panic attacks

  • People pleasing / perfectionism

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidenced based, structured therapy approach with positive clinical outcomes in the treatment of trauma. This treatment involves focusing on an aspect of a traumatic memory while engaging in bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements). Treatment outcomes can include a lessening of symptoms of depression, anxiety and PTSD, as well as decreased vividness and emotional intensity related to traumatic memories. Compassion culture offers EMDR for the following types of concerns:

pErinatal & Maternal mental health

Counselling focused on the perinatal period provides mental health support related to preconception, pregnancy, birth, and through the first twelve months postpartum (and at times beyond). Compassion Culture offers counselling for clients dealing with challenges related to:

  • Perinatal transitions

  • Symptoms of depression and anxiety in pregnancy and postpartum

  • Pregnancy loss

  • Pregnancy, birth and postpartum trauma

  • Infertility

  • Post abortion stress, trauma, grief

  • General distress and burnout related to the parenthood journey.

*Trained in Perinatal Mood Disorders - Components of Care & Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapy (Postpartum Support International).

Parenting is one of the most beautiful life experiences that can be both an incredible gift and an immense growing opportunity, and with growth comes challenges that can stretch you beyond your capacity. Compassion Culture is passionate about offering support for parents in the early years, with a variety of counselling goals. Whether you are in the newborn phase of parenting through to elementary school age children, we can collaboratively define your parenting approach, informed by your personal values, in order for you to be more equipped with the skills you need to nurture your relationship with your child(ren). Areas of focus include:

  • Transition to parenthood

  • Overwhelmed in parenthood / burnout in parenthood

  • Psycho-education on child development / age appropriate behaviours

  • Strengthen parent-child attachment / emotional connection

  • Discipline and teaching strategies

  • Learning to respond versus react in parent-child interactions

  • Reparenting: therapeutic technique that focuses on healing unmet childhood needs in adulthood, while being the parent you desire to be.

parent Counselling & coachinG

Faith-based counselling

Mental health and spiritual health are deeply intertwined, especially for those who view their faith as a central part of their identity. Many clients who come to us are not just seeking traditional therapy—they want to integrate their Christian perspective, beliefs, and values into their healing journey. For these clients, the counseling process is not just about addressing emotional or psychological struggles, but also about nurturing their spiritual well-being. Compassion Culture offers faith-based counselling upon your request and can tailor a treatment plan that involves many different aspects and practices of the Christian faith, such as integrating biblically founded truths, a focus on scripture, and prayer.