About Your Counsellor
Virginie

Hola, Bonjour & Hello!

I’m Virginie, and I’m thrilled you’re here. I’m a counsellor who lives, works, and plays on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. I have a multicultural background and I immigrated to Canada over a decade ago. I offer therapy services in English, French, and Spanish, because I understand the importance of language and culture in the therapy process.

Let’s start with what’s easy and set the tone:

Counselling must work for you and your needs.

There, I said it. If the counselling experience doesn’t meet your needs, then why are you doing it? So if the idea of coming to an office causes you anxiety or creates a barrier, let’s work around it together. We can go for a walk initially, or maybe we start with getting get a coffee. Let’s set a low barrier threshold to support you to get into therapy so we can get to know each other. As you become comfortable, we’ll start working towards your goals.

My approach to counselling

I want to tailor my therapy to your needs. To do this, there are a number of tools I utilize:

  • Client-Centred — You direct our sessions and where you want our conversations to go. I’ll bring in things as I observe them, but you direct which path we take and how long we walk it.

  • Narrative Lens — Too often, we let others become the authors of the stories we live. Whether that’s family, friends, or society, we inadvertently begin living the script others give us instead of becoming our own authors. People are not problems. Problems are problems, and we can change our relationship with them.

  • Strengths-Based — You are your own expert, and I plan to celebrate your expertise every step of our journey together. We can focus your plan around what you’re good at.

  • Solution-Focused — I intend to help you get to a place where you’ve found inner resonance as soon as we can. I don’t believe in dragging out your therapy if that’s not what you’re looking for. I balance the “Here and Now” with our future possibilities.

  • Cognitive-Behavioural — While it can be incredibly helpful to focus on how we’re feeling, often, our emotions are driven by our thoughts. Through CBT, we will focus on the symptoms you’re experiencing and how we can reduce them for you.

QUESTIONS? LET’S CHAT.

HAVE QUESTIONS OR JUST WANT TO CHAT? BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION WITH ME.