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Elise (she, her, hers) - Registered Social Worker
Languages: English
Elise is holding a waitlist for new clients, to be added to her waitlist please email elise@expressivewellness.ca 

Availability
Mondays 2:15-8:15 pm (In-Person Main and Broadway and Virtual)

​About
In my counselling practice, I seek to create a warm, grounding and generative space. I work from a humanistic perspective, centred in a belief that each of us is insightful, resourceful and capable. In a counselling session with me, you will find calm patience and encouragement. There will be attentive reflections, curiosity and likely some laughter.

Through more than a decade of experience in community, focused on education and capacity-building, I have learned that belonging is a core human need, and a motivator for many behaviours. Informed by attachment theory, I believe that an understanding of ourselves within our relationships can be a powerful foundation for healing and growth. I am interested in supporting clients to deepen their emotional literacy, self-compassion and relational skills to achieve their goals for change.

My work is guided by a commitment to social justice values. As a white, able-bodied, cisgender queer femme, I continue to deepen my anti-oppression practices, and I bring an intersectional feminist lens to my work with clients.

My rates are offered on a reduced sliding scale to reflect that I am a new counsellor. I bring many years of facilitation and leadership experience in community, where I create and hold space for folks to learn, share, grow and relate to one another. I look forward to enriching both my counselling and community practice through engaging in both areas of care and change work.


Approaches in Therapy
  • Person-Centred
  • Attachment Theory
  • Mindfulness
  • Intersectional Feminist
  • Queer Theory

Selected Professional Training
  • Deep Democracy - Conflict Resolution Foundations and Intermediate Courses
  • Heart of Facilitation, Partners for Youth Empowerment
  • Trauma Informed Practice Level 1 - Trauma Informed Practice Institute​
  • Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Core Training

Elise's Rates
15 min Phone Consultation: No Cost
Individual Counselling
50 minute sessions: standard $110, sliding scale $80-110

75 minute sessions: standard $170, sliding scale $100-170
Relationship/Family Counselling
50 minute sessions: standard $150, sliding scale $110-150
75 minute sessions: standard $210, sliding scale $150-210

Elise can work with folks utilizing First Nations Health Authority funding, Crime Victims Assistance Program, and Autism Funding Unit.
You can reach Elise at elise@expressivewellness.ca

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