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Venturous Counselling & Consulting’s Virtual Services are offered via secured platforms. Our Nature-based In-Person and/or Walk + Talk therapy sessions are located in a beautiful private space in South Surrey and open spaces in Burnaby.
Booking Online: Credit cards on file helps to validate online booking and ensures you always have the most up-to-date calendars to book your sessions. If putting a credit card on file is a barrier for you to access services, please email your practitioner directly to book. If you require a timeslot outside of what’s available here, please email your practitioner.
Accessing your sessions: To prepare for your virtual session, please ensure that you are in a quiet, secured area. If you have an individual session booked, you will receive a link via JaneApp to your online session, 30 minutes prior to your start time. If you have opted to use Zoom, your practitioner will send you a link prior to the first session and guide you to access this same link for each session. For Nature-Based In-Person and/or Walk & Talk sessions, your practitioner will provide you with an address prior to your session.
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Currently Accepting New Counselling Clients
These practitioners are currently accepting new clients and can start working with you right away. If you'd like to work with a practitioner not listed here, please add yourself to their waitlist (bottom left corner of their profile). All of our sessions are offered virtually via secured video platforms or by phone unless otherwise stated.
Currently Accepting New Consulting + Clinical Supervision Clients
Counsellors, social support agencies, and businesses are being called to critique and transform the colonial and oppressive practices that underpin the development of our professions. In addition to helping practitioners unlearn oppressive practices and gain insight into how their identity, biases, and worldviews can influence their work, justice-oriented clinical supervision and business consulting can help us stay accountable to our ethics.
By engaging in justice-oriented clinical supervision, individuals and teams can gain the practical and theoretical skills to guide practices and conversations that challenge oppressive systems and examine the power dynamics within work, life, and community settings. We offer an external perspective and guidance as you seek to foundationally integrate your ethics of equity and justice into your work. Business consulting can also support you in creating sustainable practices and improve upon policies and procedures to ensure that ethical decisions and actions are taken.
Generative exploration in ethical critique can support you in maintaining alignment and developing a practice that is grounded in justice-doing.
Individual Virtual Counselling Services
Let's uproot the internalized beliefs that act as the life support to problems you experience and empower your ability to choose your story and to make your own meaning. Individual counselling sessions help you co-create sustainable systems of thought by rebelliously subscribing to a different narrative. Individual counselling services are provided by a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Registered Clinical Counsellors at Venturous have Masters degrees in counselling psychology and many years of training and specialization. Check with your extended health provider to see if RCC services are covered under your benefits plan.
Individual Art-Based Services
Art-Based Practices works to relax the nervous system by engaging all your senses. Through the process of art-making, you experience a shift from your sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system; this is what helps your body self-regulate, reduce anxiety, regain control, integrate acceptance of self and turn your executive functioning back online. The most important thing to remember about art-based practices in therapy is that it's not about the artwork itself. There's no skill level required to engage in art-based practices, in fact, the more organic the piece is the better! By combining the creative process and psychotherapy, art helps you self-explore through a level of unconscious meaning-making that inaccessible through talk therapy alone.
Individual In-Person, Walk & Talk, and/or Nature-Based Sessions
**Currently, Walk & Talk sessions are located in a private, natural space in South Surrey or open space in Burnaby.**
Besides being an alternative setting to deepen your inner work, research has shown that Walk & Talk therapy, especially when done in a natural environment, helps to quiet the part of our brain responsible for producing ruminative and negative thoughts while reducing depression, anxiety, and stress. When we integrate the mind, body, and nature into the work while engaging in a multi-sensory experience, our nervous system is calmed and we are able to come to more creative, deeper ways of thinking, getting ourselves unstuck when confronting difficult issues. Walk & Talk therapy can be a standalone practice or engaged in conjunction with any other service we offer.
Relationship Counselling
Collaborative and non-judgemental counselling for all relationships, including romantic partners, friendships and family members. Relationship counselling focuses on the interpersonal dynamics between each person. It can help foster a deeper understanding and acceptance of one another, and enhance trust, intimacy, and connection.
Consulting & Clinical Supervision
Direct, no-nonsense solidarity and support in translating diversity of thought and collective ethics into practice. Our clinical supervisors and consultants have many years of post-graduate experience not only in practice but also in providing supervision and consulting services. Clinical supervision and consulting can be written off as an expense on your private practice and business income.
Individual EMDR Services
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that draws on the neurobiology of the brain. By engaging in specific cadences of bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps to process the "stuck" memories that are causing distress. It accesses the neuropathways that are keeping your internal alarm active beyond what's adaptive and works to help you build the neural networks that will actually work for you. Most clients find EMDR to be beneficial because it doesn't require the traumatic retelling of events and its effects are often seen within a shorter amount of time when compared to traditional talk therapy. EMDR can be used for a wide range of issues and is not limited to what is traditionally quantified as "PTSD" or "Trauma". All EMDR practitioners at Venturous have completed intensive additional training specifically to provide EMDR services.
Team / Corporate Mental Health Programming
Your organization is only as good as your team, and your team is only as good as their mental health. With dedicated mental health programming & team building initiatives for your staff, they can start seeing their work with you as an irreplaceably valued part of their life.
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