Squamish Expressive Arts Counselling

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All healing happens in the context of a caring relationship. Relational trauma is healed in relationship.

Anne's signature strength is her empathetic and non-judgemental approach. Clients of all ages feel safe and held by her wise sense of compassion. Her authenticity and kindness in the therapeutic relationship supports her client's remarkable personal transformations and inspires change. This is above all a collaborative process. Anne helps people live from a place of heartfelt intention that leads to great healing. She believes the client to be the expert of their experience. Anne encourages her clients to find new ways of being in the world and in relationship so that new possibilities and outcomes may emerge.

Anne's own personal healing journey included a critical illness, grief and loss due to a family suicide, divorce and childhood trauma. These personal life experiences shaped her understanding of love, courage and resilience. It informs her ability to bear witness to suffering and hold space for healing in the therapeutic alliance. Creating a foundation of safety and trust in all relationships is her priority.

Anne is a carpe diem person. She believes in creating daily moments of joy and magic as well as being of service in community. She knows the power of our deliberate intentions when we are in alignment with our true sense of self. She believes that if you can imagine the change you desire, you absolutely can create that change in your life! We are hard wired social beings and we crave belonging and connection.

Anne has a Master of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health from King's College London and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She has worked in an agency setting supporting families in crisis, as well as foster care and out of care caregivers. She specializes in supporting children and youth who have experienced neurodevelopmental trauma and who have concurrent psychological diagnoses. She has experience doing individual and group therapy in a residential treatment centre helping adults recovering from addiction. She specializes in helping adults and children recover from complex trauma and dissociation using a variety of experiential modalities, emotion focused therapy, solutions focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and other strength based approaches. Anne is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing(EMDR) for adults and children using play and expressive therapies. She is trained in Gestalt therapy and she integrates parts work, IFS and the Oaklander Model with EMDR. Her therapeutic work is grounded in the principles of attachment theory, polyvagal theory, play and expressive therapy, family systems theory, emotion focused therapy and structural dissociation theory. Her approach with children integrates the neurobiology of attachment and core principles of the Neurosequential Model of child development.

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