Havenwood
Inner Direction. Outer Change.
Experiential counselling for adults and youth,
therapeutic workshops and trainings.
Havenwood Counselling
Experiential Clinical Counselling
For Adults & Youth
In Person, Duncan, BC
Virtually Across Canada.
How Experiential Counselling Works
Experiential therapy emphasizes process over content.
Experiential counselling pays close attention to the responses, reactions, and patterns that emerge from experience, recognizing them as meaningful signals that can reveal the deeper emotions, beliefs, and learning shaping our symptoms.
We get closer to what is actually driving a response, uncover the deeper emotional learning beneath it. This creates the conditions for meaningful, lasting change.
Through this approach, clients can emerge from the roots of long-standing patterns and create meaningful, lasting change.
EXPERIENTIAL PRINCIPLES
Working at the root. Rather than simply managing symptoms, experiential therapy seeks to transform the emotional learning and implicit patterns that give rise to them.
Attention to experience. Working from experience versus speaking from belief. This can be done through dyadic or creative means.
Safety and collaboration. Therapy moves at the client's pace. A trusting therapeutic relationship provides the safety needed to explore difficult experiences without becoming overwhelmed.
Focused therapeutic work. Emphasis is on emotions and patterns as they emerge, creating opportunities for transformation in the moment.
New Adult Learning Institute (NALI)
Workshops & Trainings
The New Adult Learning Institute (NALI) offers workshops and trainings that support personal and professional growth.
Our programs blend the arts, science, contemplative practices, therapeutic approaches, and consciousness studies to create meaningful, whole-person learning experiences.
Whether you're an educator, therapist, helping professional, or lifelong learner, you'll gain practical tools, fresh perspectives, and opportunities for personal reflection and growth.
Check out our workshops & trainings.
Meet Rubeena
Rubeena is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who helps people move beyond survival patterns and cultivate a deeper, more compassionate relationship with themselves.
Her work is experiential, relational, and grounded in the neuroscience of emotional transformation, integrating evidence-based approaches with authentic human connection.
Clients often appreciate her honest, genuine, and relational approach. Alongside depth and compassion, Rubeena brings warmth and humour to the therapeutic relationship, even when exploring life's most difficult and existential experiences.
Her work seeks to create the conditions for meaningful and lasting change, while offering a space where you do not have to carry everything on your own.
In-person and virtual sessions available.
Havenwood Counselling is conveniently located in downtown Duncan, BC.
A place to gather, grow, and connect.