Our Clinicians
Mandy Fudge M.A. R.C.C.
There has been a significant rise in the experience of anxiety and depression, loneliness and isolation, and relationship conflict. Some of those experiences are a natural and healthy reaction to unhealthy and unnatural events while others are maladaptive and hinder one’s ability to think clearly, make decisions and feel peace.
Through the integration of trauma theory research, EMDR, neuroplasticity, the functions and impacts of the autonomic nervous system, mindfulness-based approaches, cognitive behaviour therapy, and a host of other great concepts, I work with individuals to help them reengage with or create their best selves.
I have been working in a counselling capacity for over a decade, as a childcare worker with Dilico Anishinabek Family Care in Ontario in 2007, a youth outreach worker with Freedom Quest Regional Youth Services along RCMP-based Victim Services as a service provider in the Kootenays in 2012/2014. I have now been a registered clinical counsellor with BCACC since 2018 working on Vancouver Island.
I am passionate about learning and teaching about the mind/body/environment connection. How our experiences and environments shape and mold the structural and physiological structures of the brain. How those pathways and connections impact our perceptions and our engagement in interpersonal relationships. As well as, how the food we eat and the sleep we get and the frequencies around us, impact the chemicals in our body directly affecting how we express ourselves and engage with the world.
Veronica Harris, M.A., R.C.C
Please Note: Veronica is no longer taking on new clients
As a Registered Clinical Counsellor I value the opportunity to work alongside and collaborate with my clients to promote their growth and wellbeing. Supporting overall health and wellbeing is acknowledging mental, emotional, and spiritual needs to create balance and ease in facing all that life brings forth. I work from a place that is grounded in compassion, acceptance and empathy to connect people with their natural abilities and resilience to grow and heal. I work with individuals who are experiencing grief and loss, depression and anxiety, parenting and family challenges, and the impacts of trauma. I draw from my varied experience in private practice, as a community-based counsellor, and a group facilitator for grief, loss, separation and divorce.
Areas of professional studies and training:
Emotionally Focused Couples and Family therapy
EMDR
Gottman Level 1
Attachment-based research, Interpersonal neurobiology
Mindfulness training- The Power of Awareness
Trauma informed practices, somatic
Perinatal psychology- physiologic postpartum care
Infant Development
Nature-Based Therapy
Part of my professional role in the community is in promoting Maternal Mental Health, working with women and families as they navigate their journey as mothers and parents. I am trained as a Postpartum Support Group facilitator through the Pacific Post Partum Support Society, and provide individual counselling for women, mothers and parents supporting them in postpartum depression and anxiety, the transition to parenthood, processing birth trauma, and parenting challenges. I am a mother of two and a wife and I understand that meeting the needs of mothers is essential for healthy families and communities.
I am a service provider with FNHA, Crime Victims, ICBC, and Green Shield