Services
Internal Family Systems, integrative counselling, and Dream Work — three ways of meeting what resists and persists. Feel free. Virtual sessions available.
You have inner turmoil…
Internal Family Systems, developed by Richard Schwartz, begins from the idea that a mind is naturally multiple. We all have parts. Some of them protect — managers who keep life running and stay ahead of pain, firefighters who rush in when pain breaks through anyway. Others are exiles: parts your system pushed out of sight, still carrying the hurt and the beliefs they took on to cope. And Self — not a part, but who you are in essence, at home with yourself. When parts are met with Self — calm, curious, compassionate — your system can relax, and parts can take on naturally valuable roles.
In session, your protectors set the pace. We help a part unblend, so you can be with it rather than swept up in it. We get to know your protectors and earn their trust before going near what they guard. When your system is ready, we witness the burdens inside — and support the unburdening. Nothing is forced, all parts are welcome.
For when you don't feel like yourself anymore — or lost yourself along the way — and you don't know where to start.
You've tried everything…
Integrative Counselling takes the widest view we offer. Body and mind aren't treated as separate — and neither are you and the world you live in. Your nervous system, what you carry in your body, the relationships you're in, the environments you move through and the communities you belong to — all of it a whole, integrated. What shows up in the body is often about a relationship. What shows up in a relationship is often held in the body. Everything flows, and the mind regulates the flow of this information and energy. That idea we draw from Daniel Siegel's interpersonal neurobiology — the flow runs within a person, and between people and the world they live in.
In session, we don't start from a method — we start from you, and draw on psychosomatic tools and frameworks according to what you respond to. Sessions are polyvagal informed, following Stephen Porges's work on how a nervous system reads safety — the state you're in shapes what's possible. Each practitioner has a set of tools and experiences that you'll get to discover together. Your lead — we follow with support, compassion and unconditional positive regard.
The tools we draw from ↓For when you are looking to make sense of what happened — or what is happening now — and you know there must be another way.
You know there is more…
Daydreams, fleeting images, lingering uncertainty or vivid recollections from the night, nightmares and frightening scenes — dreams gather information and energy from our unconscious, like bubbles rising to the surface, at times appearing separate from their source. Yet ideas leave not their Source, and each is a part of a larger story. Each one asks for your attention, in the very language of your psyche.
In session, we work with symbols creatively, and in the open: with art, collage, sand tray, or the Dream Tray™. We don't look them up in a dictionary — we honour that each representation is unique to you, and to what you place on it. We follow the symbols and the story that surfaces — usually taking on a form that feels most true to you. Our approach to Dream Work rests on the practical application of psychological projection — a practice that emerged from Jules's dream, and her clinical experience.
Whether you sit with Jules or Chloé, we're not after interpretation for its own sake. We invite wakefulness: the insight underneath, understanding of the emotional patterns, and the wisdom that was already speaking. What you draw up at night changes how you meet the day. Like the way water is drawn from the well, Dream Work allows us to make sense of what comes up — bubbles and all — finding meaning and appreciation for the story that surfaces.
For when you have vivid or recurring dreams — or nightmares — and you know something is asking for your attention.
Ways of working
The approaches we gather around your sessions.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Getting to know your parts — and the Self that leads them.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Gentle tapping that lets the body hold what the mind is working through.
Advanced Energy Psychology
Working with the body's energy systems to release what words alone can't reach.
Projection Work
Noticing what we place on others — and gathering it back home.
Dream Work
Following the images your sleep gathers, with curiosity.
Polyvagal Informed Care
Listening to the nervous system's own language of safety and connection.
Safe & Sound Protocol
Specially filtered music that invites the nervous system to settle.
Spiritual Counselling
Room for meaning, mystery, and the questions underneath the questions.
*Telus eClaims, NIHB, VQRP, Blue Cross, Green Shield. Coverage varies by service — inquire with your practitioner.
Whenever you are ready - feel free.
OHM WELL