Registered Clinical Counsellor

I support children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families in understanding emotions, improving relationships, and developing practical skills for lasting change. My approach combines compassion with evidence-based therapy grounded in neuroscience, attachment, and trauma-informed care.

Areas of Focus

• Trauma and complex trauma
• Anxiety and emotional regulation
• ADHD and executive functioning challenges
• Attachment and relationship difficulties
• Behavioural and developmental concerns in children and youth
• Family and parenting support
• Life transitions and stress

Therapeutic Approach

My work integrates evidence-based and trauma-informed modalities tailored to each client’s needs:

• Schema Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
• Family Systems Therapy
• Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT)

Therapy is grounded in an attachment-focused and neurodevelopmentally informed framework, recognizing how the nervous system, early relationships, and lived experiences shape emotional wellbeing.

What to Expect

I aim to provide a safe, respectful, and collaborative space where clients can explore challenges at their own pace while building emotional flexibility, self-understanding, and resilience.

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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.

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Michelle has a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Child and Youth Care. Michelle has worked with children, youth and families for nearly a decade. She has completed training in a variety of therapeutic models such as Play Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindful Self Compassion, Neuroscience and the Satir Model in the Sandtray, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy and Prepare/Enrich couples counselling.

Michelle previously worked in the school system supporting children and families with varying complex needs.

Michelle maintains a trauma-informed approach, prioritizing safety and a strong therapeutic relationship with her clients. Her work experiences have reinforced the importance of honouring each individual’s unique life journey and offering nonjudgmental, compassionate care.

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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.

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Sheryl is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) who works with adults and youth (ages 13+) navigating emotionally complex life transitions. Her approach is client-centred, culturally sensitive, and trauma-informed.

Sheryl has a particular focus on divorce and separation counselling, including high-conflict divorce, ongoing conflict after separation, and co-parenting challenges. She supports clients in strengthening emotional regulation, developing healthier communication strategies, and finding clarity during times of significant stress and change.

In addition to her work with adults, Sheryl supports teens and young adults navigating school-related stress, peer and family relationship challenges, anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and the transition to adulthood.

Sheryl holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and has completed specialized training in high-conflict divorce support and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy. She is committed to providing a steady, supportive space where clients feel heard, grounded, and empowered to move forward.

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