LGBTQ+ counselling in BC
Your experiences and story matter to us: here, we support you and your story with care and curiosity.
LGBTQ+ counselling
Counselling is a place to talk about your experiences without having to explain or defend who you are.
Our work will be focused on your story and experiences: your relationships, emotions, and the contexts you move through, always handling it with care and curiosity.
It’s not about fitting into society’s expectations or labels. It’s about understanding yourself deeper and making choices that are aligned with who you are.
Exploring your identity
Sometimes you are sure of your identity, other times, it might be evolving or feel complicated. All of that belongs here.
Here, you can reflect on how you understand yourself, how that understanding has changed over time, and how external messages may have shaped your sense of self.
Being met with curiosity can be just as healing as being met with answers.
Healing from past experiences
Experiences such as rejection, misunderstanding, or harm can leave long lasting impact on who we are and how we see ourselves.
Counselling can help you go through those experiences with care and help you explore how they might still be affecting you. Healing is not about erasing what happened, but about reducing its hold on you, so you can move forward with more self-compassion and steadiness.
Building confidence and self-trust
Living authentically can require ongoing courage.
LGBTQ+ counselling helps you strengthen self-trust, reconnect with your values, and develop confidence, that comes from knowing yourself better.
Over time, this can help you feel more grounded in your decisions and more secure in how you show up in the world.
Benefits of LGBTQ+ counselling
Improves
communication skills
Increases
self-awareness
Identifies
relationship patterns
Improves confidence
and self-esteem
Builds
coping skills
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.“
Brené Brown
Setting boundaries
Boundaries are all about clarity.
During our counselling sessions, we will work on your boundaries, understanding where they feel unclear or difficult to hold, and also work on setting new ones that feel more respectful, flexible, and aligned with your needs, rather than keeping rigid and/or reactive ones.
Communication and
self-expression
Being understood takes work. It requires you to express yourself and, sometimes, be vulnerable by saying what feels hard to say.
Counselling can help you develop your communication skills in a way that reduces defensiveness and creates more honest conversations.
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.“
Brené Brown
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