Alison brings authenticity, warmth, and compassion to her work. Through collaboration, empathy, respect, and evidence-based interventions, Alison strives to instill hope and inspire change while encouraging clients to bring awareness to their capacity for growth. By examining client patterns and understanding how clients get stuck, she can help create a path toward real and sustainable positive change. A person-centered approach guides Alison as she applies solution-focused, strength-based, and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques to her practice. Alison’s areas of interest include anxiety, stress management, depression, interpersonal issues, and life transitions. As a mother of two young children, she is also passionate about parenting and how to navigate its challenges.

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Maggie is committed, dedicated and passionate about creating a space of safety, comfortability and inclusivity where humans can experience whatever they need to flourish into who they truly want to be. Maggie has supported 1-on-1 with neurodiverse children between the ages of 4-17 mainly diagnosed (but not exclusive to) with Autism, and ADHD for the past 8 years, and additionally supported staff in the management and HR management role to promote mental health wellness and work life balance for the past 4 years. She has experience in how to navigate the system of Autism funding, supported families in navigating those services, and has collaborated with Behaviour Analysts, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and school teachers/staff (integrating Individualized Education Plans [IEP’s] into 1-on-1 goals). Maggie strives to be the open, approachable, caring, empathic, compassionate, bubbly, and a humorous person in your life. She takes a person-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based, collaborative and play-based (for the younger ones!) approach.

Additionally, Maggie’s approach is grounded in Narrative, and Acceptance and Commitment therapy, while weaving and sprinkling in aspects of Solution Focused, Dialectical and Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic techniques to discover our potential and strength, while recognizing our resiliency towards an ever-growing life journey. Finding an approach that feels right for you is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle. ​

You are Maggie’s number one priority, and fostering the therapeutic relationship and alliance is something she emphasizes. She is passionate about working with neurotypical and neurodivergent children (ages 6+), adolescence, teens, adults and anyone just trying to find their place in the world. Maggie completed her Masters in June of 2025, and is now slowly working towards becoming a licensed play therapist. Additionally, she hopes to continuously grow her repertoire of ways she can wholeheartedly develop into a better support person for her clients.

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Kim is a passionate and dedicated clinician with extensive experience conducting psycho-educational assessments tailored to the individual needs of children and adolescents. Her expertise in a wide range of assessment methods allows her to evaluate multiple facets of cognitive, academic, emotional, and behavioral development. She supports students and their families navigate school-related challenges, BC Ministry of Education designations and Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), while developing personalized recommendations and accommodations which foster collaborative support strategies within the school and community settings. Kim is committed to making a positive impact in the lives of students with an approach which is individualized, strengths-based, and grounded in current research and best practice. She currently works as a District Psychologist for the Greater Victoria School District, alongside working at Heartwood Family Wellness.

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I specialize in supporting individuals navigating infertility, pregnancy loss, miscarriage, infant loss, sexual trauma, reproductive health challenges, and family-building journeys.

Through my clinical, personal, and research experience, I understand the physical distress, prolonged grief, identity shifts, isolation, and strain on relationships that can arise from these experiences. I recognize their profound impact and support clients in navigating them with trauma-informed, client-centred care.

My approach is integrative, feminist, non-pathologizing and tailored to each client. I draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), somatic approaches for nervous system regulation, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to support emotional processing, deepen self-understanding, and build self-compassion.

My goal is to provide a safe, supportive space where grief, hope, and resilience can coexist—helping clients find meaning, connection and self-understanding. I offer a free consultation so you can determine if I’m the right fit for you.

A bit about me: -I was born and raised in Victoria, BC -I have a Rescue dog from Mexico named Lena -I am a high school psychology and business teacher -I love to travel

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Deborah is a dedicated and passionate teacher, counsellor, and mom to three children. She completed her M. Ed. in school counselling in 2023 and is a registered clinical counsellor (RCC) with the BCACC. Deborah has been an educator for ten years in learning support and inclusive education. Deborah worked as a middle school counsellor throughout her practicum and internship in her master’s program and is now an elementary and middle school counsellor in the Sooke School District along with being a counsellor at Heartwood Family Wellness.

Deborah takes a trauma-informed, person centered, and solution focused approach, believing that we all have the inherent ability to find the strength and resiliency within ourselves for growth and change. Deborah’s empathy, care, and presence allows clients to feel safe, seen, and heard. Deborah is particularly passionate about child advocacy, building confidence, self-worth and social skills. She is experienced in supporting families and children with navigating school challenges such as social and emotional regulation, anxiety (general, separation, social, performance, test), academic strategies for learning, Ministry Designations and Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), chronic absenteeism, and teacher and school staff collaboration.

Deborah is well-informed in the areas of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide ideation, attention difficulties, and neurodivergence. Deborah is experienced in working with those who have suffered childhood trauma, such as physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, grief and loss, and refugee and immigration trauma. Deborah is culturally sensitive in her work and is open to working with individuals of all backgrounds; she acknowledges and respects her client’s cultural background, beliefs, and practices. Deborah is also a strong ally to the 2S/LGBTQQIA+ community.

Deborah recognizes the pain and suffering that colonization has had and continues to have on the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, including forced displacement and assimilation, intergenerational trauma and suffering, and systemic discrimination and marginalization. She is committed to truth and reconciliation and decolonization. Deborah acknowledges that she lives, works, and learns on the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Coast Salish peoples, the Lək̓wəŋən peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and the T’Sou-ke and Scia’new Nation and Nuu-chah-nulth: Pacheedaht Nation.

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Shyla strives to create a supportive and judgement-free space in which clients feel safe and empowered to explore their struggles and reach their goals. Driven by a desire to understand and meet the unique needs of each individual, Shyla draws on a number of effective therapeutic practices, including, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy when working with her clients. With a focus on client strength and resilience, Shyla believes in an individual’s capacity to grow, change, and to build healthier life patterns.

Shyla is passionate about working with both adults and youth and her areas of interest include, but are not limited to, depression, anxiety, life transitions, grief and loss, interpersonal issues, and parenting.

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