Your life, your truth, and a conversation designed for you.
Welcome to a place where Narrative Therapy, neuroscience, and trauma-informed therapy help clients feel deeply heard and empowered with new self-understandings.
My name is Helena, I am here to walk you through conversations that take courage.
I love what I do, and I look forward to getting to know you.
I am always learning.
My name comes from my great grand mother Helena who was Welsh. I grew up on Coast Salish territory on the land of the Hul’qumi’num’ speaking peoples. I feel honoured to have been taught by many Indigenous elders from all over Turtle Island. They have shown me how to live with care in my heart, dignity in my relationships, and integrity with the land.
As a white settler in the ever deepening process of learning the truth, I am forming an understanding of how systemic colonial policies and violence have created a society designed to provide me privilege. This affords me inequitable societal and economic benefits.
Volunteering, free treatments, social justice research, donating to Indigenous sovereignty and Land Back movements, and activism are ways in which I continue to learn the truth and engage with reparations. If you need counselling and colonizers’ laws have taken from you and your family, please consider reaching out for no-cost treatments.
Note: As a cis, white, able-bodied, settler, queer practitioner, there are limits to my knowledge and understandings of intersectional experiences. If I can support the humanizing of you, however, I am here for it and in your corner. It is my honour to develop trusting relationships, and trust is earned.
Individuals
With individuals, I work one on one to develop a therapeutic relationship with you. We can explore and uncover the questions you are bringing to therapy while looking at what you’ve overcome and where you are headed. I work with youth 10 and up, adults, and elders.
Individual therapy can go a multitude of directions but most importantly it needs to fit for you. When we explore different modalities that suit your strengths and intelligences, we can find what gives you the best results.
Families
Families can be chosen or of origin. We learn and practice belonging inside our families. We are friends and enemies. We inherit behaviours, traits, and pain from our families.
It can be helpful to come together as a group to say unexpressed things, discover what others are perhaps hiding or masking, come up with group strategies, and learn about how each individual’s brain works inside the family dynamic.
Friends & Romantic Relationships
Working as a pair in any dynamic can use mediation, guidance, and facilitation. We can work together to come to a deeper understanding of what has happened between you, what drew you to each other, what you are building, and where you hope to go despite the challenges you have faced.
It is my intention to learn about you both, ask guiding questions, and help you communicate in ways that empower you. Sometimes changes can occur when we learn to ask questions differently. I aim to provide a container where you can practice that safely.