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My therapist has made me even more conscious of my thoughts and the impact that they can have on my well-being. I now have the capacity to control my negative thoughts, direct them elsewhere, and replace them with more positive ones.
Associate Therapist
M.A. Clinical Counselling Psychology
Bio | Treatment Philosophy | Education
Elaine brings both a genuine passion for this work as well as a broad range of skills, including family mediation and somatic couple’s therapy. Previously, Elaine has worked in a variety of capacities within community-based counselling, couples coaching, family mediation, and social services. Supporting people amidst change, relationship disconnection, emotional and sexual intimacy issues, conflict, anxiety, depression, addiction, separation, divorce, and co-parenting are her greatest privilege as a counsellor, and as a human being.
Personally, Elaine is ever-discovering new paths of connection and co-creativity in her own personal relationships. Regular trainings with the Hendricks’ Institute in California have opened increasingly new levels of consciousness and connection in her marriage of 17 years, as well as in her therapeutic practice. Elaine enjoys yoga, movement therapies, dance, hiking, writing, travel, and creative expression.
My approach is an integrated whole-person therapy - meaning that depending on the person, situation, and issue, I draw from a combination of techniques. Authentic intimacy - that is, emotional and sexual connectedness, requires co-creativity to flourish amidst our high-speed world. Relationships determine the quality of our lives; and a couple’s willingness to invest time and energy into creating a thriving relationship will undoubtedly have exponential benefits.
Counselling is a process of gaining both the tools to communicate with, and awareness or insight into yourself and your partner. Gaining both awareness of your patterns and developing the tools to communicate more authentically, will dissolve repetitive recycled arguments that keep us stuck.
To decide whether counseling is right for you, consider the following questions:
What to expect from counseling
Counselling is a process - often between 6 to 16 sessions are required to experience change and address the goals of the relationship.
There are no “quick fixes”- but there are amazing results if you are willing to engage in yourself, and the process of improving your relationship.
Openness to learning and a willingness to change are the essential first steps to stepping out of recycling patterns that that may be frustrating and discouraging in your life.
I work with individuals, couples, and families in my practice. I encourage cognitive and solution-focused therapies to be complimented and integrated with techniques, such as breath work, mindfulness, and relaxation. Communication-style and decision-making skills are unique to each individual, therefore combining various therapeutic modalities (e.g. Cognitive, Rational-Emotive, Dialectical, Somatic) seems fitting as a means of connecting.
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed”.
