Our mission is simple. We want to provide exceptional individual counselling, couples therapy, and family counselling for adults, young adults, and those in relationships. Our primary goal is to increase meaning and calm in the lives of our clients through fostering intimate connections with oneself and others, including partners, friends, and family.

We support our team in being their best so that clients get the best care we can provide. That means we foster growth and well-being in our clients and our amazing team. 

Given the right support, most people can overcome great hardship and pain.  That starts with providing a safe and supportive environment that welcomes diversity and difference in a place that recognizes and embraces the uniqueness of each other and the experiences we have in common. 

Many therapies focus on addressing negative experiences. We want therapy to be more than that. We want to help clients reduce negative experiences as much as we want to promote greater well-being for our clients, and our team.

OUR VALUES

Here’s what we’re attempting to ‘get at’ with the combo of these two. In essence, we try really hard to be people who show up exactly as we are across various domains in life (authenticity) and we try really hard to be people who openly share how we feel, what we think, and our driving values even when in opposition to people we love (candor). The goal here isn’t to all think, feel, and act the same. The goal isn’t to have the exact same personal values. The goal is really just to be honest. Honest about who we are and honest with ourselves and others. Authentic and candid.

Aside from being a personal favourite, depth and fun are another necessary combo value. The point here is to highlight these as standalone values and the need for these in combination with each other. It’s the combination that’s special. Deep work is meaningful, period. It’s also really freaking difficult. There can (and should) be moments where we step back and chuckle at something absurd, whether that’s about what we’re going through or entirely unrelated. The simplest way of bringing this home is that we relish the depth of humanity, but we also laugh at fart jokes (sometimes in the same breath).

To strive for multicultural and social justice competence is a way of being rather than a destination. It’s about who we are and what we do, not about a specific end result. We use the language “striving” intentionally. What we’re really trying to do here is to highlight our intentionality and focus on multicultural and social justice competence. This is our way of self-assessing how we operate as a practice, the policies and systems we have in place, how we communicate, the people who we hire and retain, and the things that are important to us. We want to have the knowledge, awareness, and skill to interact and engage with all types of people from all walks of life. The beauty is that we know we’ll never be done with this, and we’re even more here for it.

Owning your shit is all about, well, ownership. It’s about taking responsibility and owning the things that are coming up for us, the ways in which we negatively (or positively) influence interactions, and the areas of life in which we need to grow and develop further. This especially ties in with growthcentric, in that we can’t grow if we don’t take ownership of the stuff that is happening internally for us. Plus, nobody wants to be held accountable for things that don’t belong to them – hence owning our shit. We live for this stuff, y’all.

[We may or may not have made up a word for this value.] Here’s what we mean by this. We’re talking about focusing on excellence, but this does not mean we are always ‘excellent.’ Instead, it means that we try to be our best every single day. We settle for nothing less than attempting to be the best version of ourselves. When we’re not our best version of ourselves? Well, that’s when we lean into our growthcentricity (another made up word). We attempt to understand, learn, evolve, and grow when we’re not our best. Because what good is it knowing that you’re not your best version of yourself if there’s zero interest in growing into that person?

*The caveat: we don’t expect or want consistent, linear growth. Being your “best” and excellence-oriented doesn’t mean constant vigilance or never making mistakes. Definitely not the case. It means exactly what we say – being your best on any given day, which can look significantly different from day to day and absolutely should (and does) allow space for folks to err and be human.