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
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