Extended health care providers that may cover the cost of counselling:

• Pacific Blue Cross
• Manulife Financial
• SunLife Financial
• Equitable Life
• Greenshield
• ihaveaplan

Before booking an appointment,  you can check with your provider whether Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCC) are covered under your plan. With most insurance coverage, you make payment via e-transfer out of pocket for the session. After I receive the payment, I will provide you with a receipt that has all the information you need to receive reimbursement from your extended health plan or insurance provider for the session.

Our services are located online and we use Interac bank e-transfer payment or Paypal in Canadian and USD. Official receipts are issued for each session and will be emailed to you.

To cancel, 48 hours notice is required to reschedule or cancel all appointments. The appointment must be cancelled or rescheduled through email, text or phone call directly to the counsellor. If you miss any session and/or have not followed the cancellation policy, you forfeit your session fee.

guilt and shame 

grief, anxiety, depression,

fears or or in intimate relationship and attachment challenges

fears of abandonment

boundary-setting

destructive narcissistic relationships (parent-child, spousal, workplace relationships)

separation and divorce transition

cross-cultural conflicts within family system

challenges with self esteem, self-advocacy, singleness

alcoholism, drugs and substance or pornography misuse/abuse

PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder )

domestic abuse (forms of abuse: neglect, verbal, emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual)

identity and body image challenges

career transition, workplace conflicts, burnout

caregiver burnout (supporting family with illness or traumatic brain injury)

chronic illness management

spiritual crisis (doubt, resentment and disappointment with God or faith community)

Treatment Plan

A structured outline of your healing and growth goals.
It names what you want to work on, what skills you’re building, and the strategies your therapist will use to support you.
A treatment plan helps keep therapy focused, measurable, and collaborative.

We provide free 20 minutes discovery consult about your needs and any questions you may have about our counselling, coaching or consulting services. This consult is not a counselling session but everything you share will be held in confidentiality.

You can ask about my experience supporting someone with similar issues you are facing. You can ask what positive results/outcomes we gain from our therapeutic alliance.

You can ask about how a therapist’s relationship with you is different than other professions. You can ask about my training and core values.  Feel free to read my About page or LinkedIn account.

Counselling focuses on healing emotional wounds, processing trauma, and addressing mental health challenges, often exploring your past.
Coaching is more future-focused—it helps you clarify goals, build habits, and move forward with practical strategies.
At Behold Counselling, we offer both—because thriving often requires healing and action together.

Hybrid counselling and coaching is an integrative approach that combines trauma-informed therapy tools (like CBT, EMDR and parts work) with solution-focused coaching strategies. It means you get space to heal and you want to be challenged at times to take aligned action. This is especially effective for those clients who have foundational stabilization and grounding skills and well acquainted with therapy processes and just want to target navigating career decisions, conflicts in relationships, or major life transitions, crisis that holds a sense of urgency. It is for people who may not want just an attentive listener and they can self-validate but they need ways to understand their options and get clear of their power and choice in a situation. If the client wants to execute an action,  for example: I want to stop drinking, or looking at porn we will look at your history, root causes and other past factors AND we also start to brainstorm resources you have access to so you can sense options to get accountability and help outside of session.

Our holistic approach will create treatment plans for clients that guide them into accelerated learning of their current nervous system state and teach clients an array of grounding and visualization skills to sense better control to relative calm and present moment stabilization. 

We use and practice grounding /calming protocols until clients feel they are more self-regulated and build on the next phase of goals for trauma recovery and mending attachment wounds.

For trauma recovery, we often recommend a clinical approach and process called EMDR.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) helps the brain reprocess painful memories and internalized beliefs from past relationships.
For example, when used in dating or divorce care, EMDR can help you:

• Break free from internalized negative self beliefs and patterns rooted in earlier attachment wounds

• Reduce triggers and emotional reactivity

• Build skills to return to relative calm and sense of safety through visualization exercises

It can be profoundly healing for those recovering from single event trauma like accident or assault , as well as supporting those who have suffered long term relational grief, betrayal, emotional or physical abuse. 

To learn more, go to the EMDRIA website.

Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS)

When a child grow up with caregivers or parents that were emotionally unavailable, under-developed or sick or mentally ill themselves or absent all together, the child’s emotional needs often are unmet.

DNMS helps with present-day struggles that come from unmet needs in childhood — adults with anxiety and depression often find it very hard to bring self to calm or have control over :

• triggered difficult , intense emotions and overthinking

• self-criticism, self-loathing, shame and guilt

• unwanted thoughts, behaviours or habits

• overwhelming rage, anger, that either explore or implodes ( self punishment in the form of self-hitting, eating disorders, cutting, picking, etc.

• constant anxiety over fears, catastrophizing in social context

• Challenges building connection, often holding negative perception of self or how people perceive them or how one sense safety and belonging

Types of Childhood Wounds

1. Trauma Wounds

Happen when bad things happen (physical danger or threat), such as:

• accidents or injuries

• violence

• natural disasters

2. Attachment Wounds

Happen when good things do not happen, such as not receiving:

• comfort

• encouragement

• emotional support

• affection

• safe attention

Most adults struggle more with attachment wounds, because these affect how the brain develops emotional resilience.

What Happens When Attachment Needs Aren’t Met

• Younger “parts” of you can get emotionally stuck in time.

• These parts may feel scared, alone, ashamed, or overwhelmed.

• Triggers can bring back the feeling that the past is happening now.

• Some parts cope through behaviors like overeating, withdrawing, drinking, or perfectionism.

How DNMS Heals These Wounds

DNMS helps these stuck younger parts by:

• creating inner Resources (wise, nurturing internal helpers)

• giving them the comfort and support they never received

• helping them realize the danger is over and they are safe now

• unburdening the beliefs and emotions they’ve carried alone

• updating the nervous system to the present moment

As these parts heal:

• emotional overwhelm decreases

• unhealthy coping behaviors soften

• self-esteem grows

• inner conflict fades

• adult strengths and stability increase

To learn more about this approach, visit the official website of DNMS, by founder Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA.

Somatic Skills

Body-based tools that help regulate the nervous system. These include grounding, breathwork, stretching, movement, shaking, orienting, and sensory awareness.

Somatic skills help your body shift out of survival states and return to safety. We always build a treatment plan that observes and strengthens your body-mind connection to prepare for trauma reprocessing session. 

Emotional Attunement

The ability to notice, name, and respond to your emotional state with accuracy and care requires an array of skills to practice and build so you can become emotionally regulated and more self aware. This is a key attribute to being an emotionally intelligent person and professional.

It is a form of inner listening—being present with your feelings rather than judging, suppressing, or rushing past them. This skill is foundational to building self compassion and sustainable growth mindset that doesn’t self punish for get to success. 

Therapy strengthens your emotional intelligence by helping you:

• Recognize your feelings more accurately and quickly.

• Understand where emotions come from (triggers, patterns, old wounds).

• Regulate your reactions so you respond, not react.

• Communicate your needs with more clarity and calm.

• Build empathy for yourself and others.

• Strengthen boundaries so relationships feel healthier and safer.

In short: Therapy teaches you how to navigate your inner world so you can show up with more confidence, clarity, and connection in your outer world.