Professional Counselling Services
At Brushed by Cedar Counselling, I am committed to offering professional, confidential, and culturally responsive counselling services to adults, couples, and families. My practice is rooted in a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework, emphasizing healing-centered engagement that addresses the multifaceted nature of human experiences. My practice centres on self-agency, relational accountability, and collective healing.
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What to Expect
Every person’s healing journey is unique. My approach is flexible and responsive, ensuring that therapy aligns with your values, identity, and goals. This means:
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Adjusting Therapeutic Modalities – Blending approaches based on your needs and comfort level.
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Pacing Therapy Respectfully – Honouring your readiness for deep exploration while fostering a sense of safety and self-trust.
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Integrating Cultural & Spiritual Perspectives – Honouring diverse identities, worldviews, and ancestral wisdom as integral to the healing process.
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Providing Practical Strategies & Tools – Offering resources tailored to your lived experience, including mindfulness practices, communication tools, and self-compassion exercises.
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Collaborative Goal-Setting – Defining meaningful and realistic goals together, reassessing and adapting them throughout the therapeutic journey.
Healing is not an individual endeavor - it is relational, collective, and deeply connected to the systems we navigate. I strive to hold space for transformative healing, recognizing not only the wounds we carry but also the adaptability and strength we inherit. Together, we move toward a path of restoration, empowerment, and collective well-being.
Areas of Focus
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Relationships & Couples - In relationships - with partners, family, and community - are where we seek safety, belonging, and care. I work with individuals, couples, and families to explore the patterns that shape connection and disconnection, as relationships evolve over time.
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Assisting partners in deepening connection, navigating major life events, and addressing relationship conflict. Relationship work extends beyond romantic partnerships and includes caregiving roles, healing intergenerational patterns, inner-child exploration, boundary setting, and cultivating self-worth, and self-trust.
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Grief and Loss - Grief is not something to “get over” but something to be held with care. Whether grieving the loss of a loved one, a relationship, an identity, or a sense of belonging, I approach grief with a somatic and compassionate care lens. Loss is carried in the body, the nervous system, and in the ways we move through the world. Together, we create space to honour what has been lost, without rushing toward resolution, while making room for what comes next.
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Trauma - Trauma is not just an individual experience, but a systemic issue influenced by colonialism, systemic violence, and intergenerational harm. Whether you are navigating developmental trauma, relational trauma, chronic distress, or the weight of inherited pain, our work together will centre relational healing, adaptability, resistance, and self-determination. I support individuals in processing trauma, oppression, and personal histories in a way that acknowledges both personal and collective healing.
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Women’s Health – The emotional labor placed on women - whether through caregiving, reproductive health, or societal expectations - is not just a personal burden but a systemic one. Much of what women carry is unseen, dismissed, or normalized. Our work together is about naming these realities, challenging harmful narratives, and creating space for harmony, self-determination, and care that is sustainable and nourishing.
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Healing is not about fixing what is broken - it is about reclaiming what has been taken, remembering what has always been within us, and reimagining new ways of being. If this resonates with you, I would be honoured to walk alongside you in this work.
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My Approach
My therapeutic approach is integrative, recognizing that healing is deeply personal and shaped by culture, identity, and lived experience. I draw from various evidence-based and culturally attuned modalities, including:
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Family Systems & Attachment Theory – Exploring relational patterns, attachment wounds, and intergenerational dynamics to promote healing and connection.
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Compassionate Inquiry - Gently guiding to connect with the emotions and beliefs that have been suppressed or adapted in response to lack of safety, connection, or authenticity in childhood.
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Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Schema Therapy & Lifespan Development – Supporting clients in understanding, processing, and expressing emotions in ways that promote growth and relational security, as well as identifying and transforming core beliefs rooted in early life experiences that impact present-day relationships and self-perception.
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Response-Based Practice & Therapeutic Activism – Recognizing acts of resistance in the face of adversity and centering clients' agency in their healing process, as well as bringing together therapy and social justice, recognizing that healing it’s intimately connected to systems of power, oppression, culture, and collective liberation.
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Mindfulness & Somatic Practices – Incorporating present-moment awareness, breathwork, movement, and nervous system regulation to cultivate embodied presence and healing.
Get In Touch
If you are interested in being added to my waitlist, please email me at brushedbycedar@gmail.com
240 - 1210 Cedar Street
Campbell River, BC
V9W 2W5
Tel: 250-202-5675
Email: brushedbycedar@gmail.com
I raise my hands in gratitude to the Liǧʷiłdaxʷ families of the Wei Wai Kum, We Wai Kai, and Kwiakah Nations for allowing us to live, learn, and work on this beautiful unceded land.
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I am dedicated to ongoing learning, listening, and engaging in meaningful reconciliation that honours Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. This acknowledgment is just one small step in a broader commitment to justice, truth-telling, and relationship-building.
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With deep respect, I recognize the Ligʷiłdaxʷ Nations for their enduring care of these lands and waters. I remain committed to working in ways that respect, uplift, and centre Indigenous voices and knowledge.