Welcome! I’m so glad your search for a counsellor has led you here. Let me tell you a little about myself to help you figure out if we’ll be a good fit.

I’m Linette…

…I’m a second generation European settler, an explorer of nature, a knitter, and a Registered Clinical Counsellor who has supported youth and adults and their mental health for over a decade. 

I’m a calm, curious, relaxed person who has been asking the big existential questions of who we are and why we’re here and what to do about that my whole life. I love bringing this curiosity into the counselling space and supporting you to identify how those questions are impacting you. 

You may be feeling depressed, full of anxiety, working through past and current traumas, or just grappling with the difficulties that being alive inevitably brings - anything you bring into our space together, I can handle! I’ve successfully supported folks experiencing suicidal ideation, anxiety disorders, complex developmental trauma, and many other mental health issues. I also have extensive experience supporting youth and young adults exploring gender and sexual identities, and the depression and anxiety that often comes with living in a society that is geared toward cis and heteronormative ways of being.

Since moving from Ontario in 2005, my life and work has taken me around the province of British Columbia, and I’ve been welcomed into communities in Vancouver, the Northern Interior, and Vancouver Island, where I now call Victoria - the unceded territory of the Lkwungen people - home. I’ve worked in a number of First Nations communities and my life and my practice has been transformed by the many Indigenous teachings I’ve been privileged to learn about. I have deep reverence for the land and its healing power. 

My credentials and training:

  • Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology from Simon Fraser University

  • Registered Clinical Counsellor #15038 with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors

    Trained in:

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

  • Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy

  • Emotion-Focused Family Therapy

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing