ABOUT
I believe that growth emerges from an authentic and safe client-counsellor relationship as we collaboratively explore personal perceptions, beliefs, past experiences, and core values that are influencing present-moment wellbeing to empower self-awareness, authentic identity, and emotional regulation.
Stephanie provides virtual counselling throughout British Columbia for adolescents and adults.
Heya, I'm Stephanie
A double Master's level counselling psychologist providing virtual counselling throughout British Columbia for adolescents and adults.
I believe that people are more complicated, and far more capable of change, than any diagnosis, label, difficult experience, or chapter of their life can capture.
No problem too small.
No challenge too big.
Come as you are.
Everyone is Welcome
This therapy practice was created out of a passion for healing and a deep commitment to supporting each individual's unique journey. Stephanie brings together a wealth of education and experiences, dedicated to delivering compassionate and personalized care.
She strives to create a safe, inclusive, and body-positive space where individuals can feel seen, heard, and supported for who they truly are.
My Approach
My approach draws from trauma-informed, person-centered, and existential modalities while remaining attentive to each individuals unique identity, experiences, relationships, culture, values, and circumstances.
I'm particularly interested in supporting individuals navigating identity, complex trauma, grief, self-worth, people-pleasing, life transitions, meaning, and purpose.
Let's uncover and set goals according to your own definition of “healthy” and "successful."
Therapy is a place to develop a deeper understanding of yourself and deciding, with greater intention, what you want your life to look like.
A counselling space without the pressure to perform
Many of us become remarkably good at adapting.
We learn how to be helpful, agreeable, successful, independent, strong, or easygoing. These qualities can serve us well, but sometimes the strategies that once helped us navigate life begin to leave us feeling disconnected from ourselves.
You might know how to meet everyone else's expectations while having difficulty knowing what you actually want.
You might understand why you feel the way you do but still find yourself repeating the same patterns.
Or maybe you're simply wondering:
“Is this really who I am, or is this who I've learned I need to be?”
These are the kinds of questions we can explore in counselling.
Journey
With creativity as my guide, I began my educational journey in Fine Arts.
Embracing each moment with curiosity and wonder, my hands-on artistic pursuits support personal expression, meaning making, regulation, and embracing the unknown.
I am endlessly inspired by the beauty and diversity in the world.
I love traveling, meeting people, exploring new places, and learning new languages.
I have lived across Canada, from British Columbia to Alberta and Manitoba. I am grateful to be settled in the Comox Valley.
I am deeply honored to support and provide a healing space for clients as they grow and change over a lifetime.
Career Transition
IDENTITY SHIFTS AND ALTERS OVER A LIFETIME
Continuing the family legacy of Architects, I began my journey
studying and designing the built environment.
When selecting an architectural Master’s thesis topic, I jumped at the opportunity to research the thresholds of environment design and human cognition.
In my professional career designing mixed-use residential high-rises in the Metro-Vancouver area, I positioned myself doing what I enjoyed most:
client mediation, project development, and creative design.
After seven years of colleagues finding their way to my desk in search of compassion, humor, and understanding when grappling with both personal and career conflicts, I knew it was time.
Time to follow my own dreams.
Now, all I can do is look back and be grateful for the journey that brought me here today.
I SPECIALIZE IN HOW PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS INFLUENCE COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Supervision
Kate Pinsonneault
Seahorse Counselling
and Psychotherapy Inc.
Education
M.A.CP, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology
Yorkville University (current)
M.Arch., Master of Architecture
University of Manitoba
B.Env.D., Bachelor of Environmental Design
University of Manitoba
B.A.US, Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies
University of Calgary
Fine Arts
Langara College
Associations
CCPA Student Member
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association [CCPA]
BCACC Student Member
British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors [BCACC]
BC Regulatory Licensing (2027)
Health Professions and Occupations Act [HPOA]
What you can expect
You can expect a counselling space that is warm, compassionate, accepting, curious, and free from biases or expectations.
You don't have to arrive with the perfect explanation.
You can simply arrive as you are.
If you're wondering whether counselling might be right for you, let's connect and start the conversation.