Havenwood
Inner Direction. Outer Change.
Havenwood supports healing and growth through experiential counselling services, therapeutic workshops, and professional development trainings.
Havenwood Counselling
Experiential Clinical Counselling
In Person in Duncan, BC
Virtually Across Canada.
How Experiential Therapy Works
Experiential therapy emphasizes process over content.
Rather than focusing only on talking about problems, it helps clients pay attention to their moment-to-moment experience—including emotions, bodily sensations, thoughts, behaviours, and relational patterns.
Through this deeper awareness, clients can understand the roots of long-standing patterns and create meaningful, lasting change.
Rubeena Sandhu is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (BCACC) who helps people move beyond survival patterns and cultivate a deeper, more transformative relationship with themselves. Her work is experiential, relational, and grounded in the neuroscience of emotional transformation, integrating evidence-based approaches with authentic human connection.
Experiential therapies share several core 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. Change begins by turning toward present-moment experience with curiosity. Emotions, bodily sensations, thoughts, and impulses become valuable sources of insight and self-understanding.
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. Sessions are intentional and experiential. While storytelling has its place, the emphasis is on helping clients actively engage with 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.