Havenwood Counselling
Clinical Counselling
Duncan, BC
Online across Canada
Mental Health Counselling for Adults, Youth & Families
Compassionate, professional clinical counselling for anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, anger management, and relationship difficulties.
Specializing in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Coherence Therapy, and Creative Arts Therapy, with a focus on supporting adults, youth, families, and public service professionals, including teachers, nurses, social workers, and non-profit leaders.
EXPERIENTIAL PRINCIPLES
How we work with memory and emotion
Past experiences can influence what you expect from others, how you feel about yourself, and how you respond in the present.
You might anticipate rejection when you express a need, feel responsible for someone else’s disappointment, or become guarded when someone offers care.
Together, we explore the memories, emotions, and expectations connected to these responses. Sometimes a particular memory matters. Sometimes we begin with a familiar feeling or a situation happening now.
As we reach the roots of the pattern, we create opportunities for integration of a different experience—and for the pattern itself to change.
What to expect in a counselling session
We begin with what is troubling you or what feels important. I take an active role. I ask questions, reflect what I notice, and help us reach the feelings and experiences connected to your difficulty.
We notice what happens inwardly. We honour the symptoms, because they express deeper intentions, wishes, and needs.
When something significant emerges, we stay with it long enough to understand its meaning and intent.
Care includes working with discomfort
I am motivated by what changes for you and how you wish to change. That means I will sometimes invite you to stay with a feeling, memory, or reaction you would usually move away from.
What change can look like
The purpose is for something to become different in your daily life. With inner direction as our journey then your unwanted symptoms can truly change.
Meet Rubeena Sandhu, Registered Clinical Counsellor
Rubeena Sandhu is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (BCACC) who helps people move beyond unhelpful emotional survival patterns, distressing thoughts and beliefs, and helps clients meaningfully transform emotional pain, stress, anxiety and depression.
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 Counselling in Duncan & Virtual Counselling
Havenwood Counselling is conveniently located in downtown Duncan, BC.
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