Embodied Journey Counselling
Supporting individuals, veterinary professionals, and pet parents through burnout, compassion fatigue, and life stage transitions with trauma-informed, integrative counselling.
Welcome – I’m Amanda, a licenced counsellor in British Columbia
I’m a counsellor with a lived history in veterinary medicine and I understand how caregiving can shape us, stretch us, and sometimes quietly exhaust us.
This is a space where you don’t have to hold it all alone.
Where your emotions get to land.
Where your nervous system gets to settle.
Where you can reconnect with who you are beyond the roles you carry and any labels.
My Approach
My work is trauma-informed, client-centered, and integrative; blending somatics, nervous system regulation, narrative work, polyvagal theory, parts work, and gentle skills-building.
I support you mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually — because healing is never just one dimension.
This isn’t about “fixing” you.
It’s about coming home to yourself.
Who I Support
Any individuals in seasons of identity change or major life transitions who are seeking clarity, grounding, and a more secure sense of self moving forward
Veterinary professionals navigating burnout, emotional overwhelm, compassion fatigue, and the long-term emotional impact of caring deeply for others
Pet parents moving through the complex emotions that arise as they welcome a new pet, their animal ages, receives a new diagnosis, declines, or approaches end-of-life
Caregivers and helpers who need space to slow down, regulate, and reconnect with their own needs and inner steadiness
My Services
Let’s see if we’re the right fit.
Finding the right counsellor is an important part of your healing journey. The relationship between us matters for your comfort, your sense of safety, and your ability to show up as you are.
If you’re curious about working together, I offer a free 20 minute phone or video consult so we can explore what you’re needing support with, what approaches feel aligned for you, and whether my style and focus feels like a good match.
There’s no pressure to decide quickly as this is a space to ask questions, get a feel for my approach, and honour what feels right for you.
You deserve a counsellor who feels safe, attuned, and supportive for where you are right now.
Counselling is not a race toward change. It’s a slow remembering of who you are, and what your body has always known. You deserve support that honours your pace.
Embodied Journey Counselling gratefully and respectfully acknowledges that we work, play, live, and heal on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), and Stó:lō (Sto:lo) peoples.