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Havenwood

Inner Direction. Outer Change.

Havenwood supports healing and growth through experiential counselling services, therapeutic workshops, and professional development trainings.

Havenwood Counselling

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Experiential Therapy

In Person in Duncan, BC
Virtually Across Canada.

How Experiential Therapy Works

Experiential therapy emphasizes process over content. The therapist pays close attention not just to what the client says, but how they experience and express themselves during the session.

The approach draws on several foundational ideas:

  • Inner Perception: Healing begins with noticing inner experience (emotions, sensations, feelings, thoughts).

  • Expression: Emotions are wise, and communicate deep subconscious messages around what need to be expressed and transformed — not suppressed.

  • Embodiment: Our felt sense often holds unspoken memories and truths.

  • Integration: When experiences are felt and accepted, they can be integrated into a fuller sense of self.

  • Trauma: Specific experiential therapies, including AEDP and Coherence Therapy, address the emotional and implicit patterns shaped by traumatic experiences, supporting lasting change beyond symptom management.

New Adult Learning Institute (NALI)

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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.

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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.