Perspective

Like Ponderosa Pine, people are incredibly resilient and their ways of functioning are adaptions to their unique environmental conditions. Ponderosa survive drought, fire, and high winds yet continue to grow to immense heights. While they may look independent, they are deeply connected and in constant exchange with everything around them.

Similarly, every person is a part of their unique individual, family, and social histories and is doing the best they currently can. We’re typically taught that there’s nothing we can do about the past, that we need to “move on” and “get over it”. In reality, there’s a lot we can do to move passed the things we’re caught on. Everyone has different struggles and different resources to draw on.

Counselling, then, can’t be one-size-fits-all but rather needs to be a flexible and dynamic process that uses different tools to approach each client’s challenges. Therefore, as client and therapist we will work together to find the best practical tools to work toward change.

Ponderosa Counselling Services focuses on counselling adults and adolescents through trauma recovery, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship issues drawing on tools from a variety of approaches including Body-focused EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing, mindfulness, narrative therapy, and CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy).

Direct billing for ICBC and FNHA available.