Couples counselling at Woodland Counselling is strongly influenced by Gottman, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Adlerian, and non-violent communication skills. We work with couples to help open up and understand what the relationship needs to thrive and grow. At Woodland Counselling, we have an unbiased approach and don't favour sides. We support both individuals involved in the relationship and will facilitate guiding you, helping you face your fears and worries. We have the hard conversations, and many of our clients find that they feel peace through the therapeutic process because they now have a way to have an open and honest conversation and gain traction towards making decisions.

At Woodland Counselling, radical inclusion, and having an open mind and heart to all gender identities, relationship structures, and sexual orientations is ingrained deeply in our values.

Many different situations surrounding the reproductive experience can be supported through counselling. At Woodland Counselling, we have therapists (Stefania-Zwirello Evans) who have over a decade of experience working with individuals and families. Stefania has supported the healing journeys of clients who have experienced prenatal anxiety, postpartum depression, miscarriages, still birth, abortion, as well as life adjustments and couples counselling that accompany these conditions.

Anxiety and depression are often painful experiences that can range from uncomfortable to paralyzing emotions. During our sessions, we can learn to soften the edges of those discomforts and learn to thrive within these conditions, rather than be stifled or frightened by them.

A general sense of unease or dissatisfaction with life can be caused by times of transition, low self-worth and low self-esteem, as well as a lack of clarity and understanding of purpose and direction in life. Whatever brings you here, Woodland Counselling will assess and help each client uncover their meaning and purpose in life, and help navigate a path to discover how to get there.

It is possible to heal the pain of past traumatic events. With a trauma-informed approach, we will move gently forward at a pace that is carefully and personally curated towards each individual's comfort level. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy is used to work with trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), EMDR is a clinical treatment that has successfully helped millions of individuals, and the number is growing exponentially each day. EMDR’s efficacy has been established by rigorous research. Learn more about it here.

Ancestral histories often contain challenging experiences, often there is a deep-seated uneasiness that is not always explicit or clearly tied to a specific life event. Counselling in this realm can help create meaning and a narrative that brings forward healing, along with the strength and resilience that is within you and your ancestry.