Beth is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in good standing with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (member # 17444).

 

Welcome,
I’m Beth and I’m glad you’re here. 

I am a counsellor and speaker in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. I work with individuals, and families, serving Chilliwack, Hope, Agassiz, and Columbia Valley.

I enjoy working with people to facilitate growth and change. Whatever prompts you to seek counselling you need not face it alone. Together, we can work toward healing and change. My therapeutic work provides a safe place for healing and deep emotional work to occur. I help clients utilize personal strengths to create a healthy relationship with Self, others, and their world. I bring a collaborative holistic healing approach to my counselling practice which is tailored to meet clients’ individual needs.

Personal Life Lessons

Along with my Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, life has taught me numerous lessons about grief and suffering, which inform my practice. I bring resiliency to my work, learned through the lessons of parenting, aging parents, marriage, friendship, loss, and trauma. Counselling has created change in my own life, and I was drawn to become a counsellor due to my extroverted personality and my empathic, caring nature.

My idea of fun includes the people I love laughing together around good food and board games. I also enjoy the beauty of nature here in BC both hiking and kayaking.

 

Counselling Approach.

 

My approach to counselling integrates various counselling techniques. I come from a family-systems, attachment, experiential, relational, and somatic (body) perspective, believing that all people are equal and internally equipped with strengths that drive therapeutic change. Change happens within relationships: to self and to other. My role as a counsellor is to provide a safe therapeutic relationship from which to explore both self-acceptance and change.  I also draw upon Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques, neuroscience, Sandtray, and psycho-education to equip clients with self-understanding. Our therapeutic work can override cultural or personal messages that may limit goals or internal resources.

 

Education & Training.

 

Beth is highly trained, holding a Master’s degree.

MA, Counselling Psychology, Trinity Western University

BA, Psychology, University of the Fraser Valley

My training is as a generalist counsellor; however, I have completed further training and specialized placements in the areas of child and family therapy, family violence, and trauma therapy.

 

Additional Training

 

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy

    • Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Essentials

    • Fundamentals of Emotionally Focused Therapy

  • Play Therapy:  Sand Tray Interventions, Certificate

    • Neuro Science & Satir in the Sandtray: Children & Families, Certificate

  • Chronic Shame in Clinical Practice; An Embodied Relational Perspective

    • Certificate

  • Sand Tray Certifications: Neuroscience and Satir in the Sand Tray, Transforming Trauma in the Sand Tray, Transforming Shame in the Sand Tray

  • Couples Counselling:

    • Gottman Level One, Certificate

    • Satir Couples

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Certificate

  • Trauma Therapy:  LifeSpan Integration Level One, Certificate

  • Mindful Self-Compassion, Neff Ph.D. & Germer Ph.D., Certificate

  • Domestic Violence:  Understanding Abuse in Relationships, When Love Hurts, Certificate

  • Trauma-Informed Yoga Training, Certificate

 

Prior Related Experience.

 

I worked 17 years resourcing families, supporting parents, families, and couples through writing content and facilitating groups. This work provides me with a depth of helping experience which is foundational to my counselling practice.