About me: I have over 25 years of experience supporting a wide range of individuals in different capacities. My experiences included significant time working with those with Diversabilities, children, youth and Indigenous communities. My roles have included supporting youth and children in care, withdrawal management, employment counselling, advocacy, and leadership.

I use an individualized approach to assisting those in need. These individualized approaches can be informed by a number of approaches including narrative, CBT, experiential, existential, and IFS, and tailored to you, your child or your families counselling goals.

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I am a counsellor trainee, coach, and lifelong learner who believes that meaningful change happens through supportive relationships—with ourselves, our partners, our families, our communities, and the wider world around us. My role is to offer a warm, respectful, and non-judgmental space where people can feel understood and accepted as they are.

For more than 20 years, I have supported children, youth, adults, parents, caregivers, couples, and families in the area of mental health. I work with people experiencing anxiety, stress, low mood, grief, life transitions, relationship difficulties, family-of-origin concerns, parenting and co-parenting challenges, low self-worth, and a desire for personal growth.

My approach is collaborative and responsive to each client’s goals, needs, and lived experience. I draw on evidence-based approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, as well as attachment theory, family systems and trauma-informed practice. Together, we may explore how your experiences and relationships have shaped you, how patterns have developed, and how greater awareness can open new possibilities for connection and change.

I believe people are doing their best with the knowledge and resources they have available and that change becomes more possible when we feel supported and less alone. When working with couples and families, I help people communicate more openly, understand one another’s perspectives, navigate conflict and transitions, repair hurt, and build relationships that feel safer, more respectful, and more connected. I recognize that every family is unique and may include chosen family and other meaningful support networks.

I acknowledge that I am a visitor on the traditional territory of the Quw’utsun peoples. I honour their enduring presence, culture, language, laws, rights, and sovereignty, while recognizing the ongoing impacts of colonization, Residential Schools, displacement, and racism. I am committed to learning, listening and respecting Indigenous self-determination and lived experiences.

I welcome individuals, couples, and families of diverse genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, abilities, cultures, faiths, and backgrounds. My practice is affirming of trans, non-binary, Two-Spirit, gender-diverse, and neurodivergent people.

Mindfulness, nature, spirituality, and Toltec wisdom have influenced both my personal and professional life. When meaningful to a client, we may explore the ways in which these practices support well-being.

I am currently completing my Master’s in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University and have been an ICF-certified coach since 2018. I am offering reduced rates while completing my practicum under the supervision of Lurline Raposo, MA RCC-ACS BCRPT-S PC and Dr. Sarah Dalton.

I am a counsellor trainee, coach, and lifelong learner who believes that meaningful change happen... Read More

Lurline is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, child psychotherapist, Registered Play Therapist, an Approved Clinical Supervisor, a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and a Parenting Coordinator.

Although she has two decades of experience as a psychotherapist, today she most enjoys her work in sand tray therapies and trauma resolution therapies such as Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) with adults.

She also works with couples, parents and families and has for all of her career. She draws from a wide variety of models such as Gottman Couples, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, Attachment-Focused Family Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindful Self-Compassion and Trauma-Informed Neurobiology.

Lurline is also the Clinical Director and Supervisor for Allius Counselling Services.

Lurline is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, child psychotherapist, Registered Play Therapist, an... Read More