Havenwood Counselling
Experiential Counselling Approaches
Coherence Therapy | AEDP | Creative Arts Therapy
Transformative counselling grounded in the neuroscience of emotional change. Supporting deeper understanding and lasting emotional transformation.
Therapy Areas of Focus
Developed by Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley, Coherence Therapy grew from their clinical observations that lasting emotional shifts can occur when the hidden meanings behind persistent struggles is uncovered. Drawing on memory reconsolidation research, this approach helps transform deeply held emotional habits - allowing old protective patterns to change rather than simply be managed.
AEDP is a compassionate, emotion-focused approach that helps people process difficult experiences and create lasting emotional change. Developed by Dr. Diana Fosha, it emphasizes the healing power of a safe, supportive therapeutic relationship, where emotions can be explored and experienced without judgment. Through this process, individuals can discover their innate capacity for healing.
AEDP
Creative Arts Therapy harnesses the power of images, symbols, and creative expression to access emotional experiences that words alone may not reach. Visual imagery can engage brain processes involved in emotion, memory, and sensory experience, allowing feelings to be explored beyond language. Through art-making, deeply held experiences can take shape, opening pathways for emotional processing, insight, and healing.
Creative Arts Therapy
Meet Rubeena
If you are ready to change your habits, shift your thoughts, transform your relationships, or connect more honestly and authentically with yourself, you have come to the right place.
I work with experiential processes to help clients tap into their problems as genuine pathways that lead us to the roots of unconscious beliefs and protected feelings. My work is grounded in the neuroscience of emotional transformation and the power each individual has to change and develop themselves.
While early research into memory reconsolidation was largely set aside in the early 1970s, current neuroscientific research is revealing how established emotional memories can be updated, opening new possibilities for learning and change.
For me, this highlights the importance of diving into our inner worlds, an essential human activity that can be particularly powerful when we take the time to set aside ‘intentional spaces’ to speak and listen, to attend to the mysteries of self and life.
You can count on honesty, humour and warmth in our sessions, with a focus on meaning, and long lasting transformation.
In-Person Counselling in Duncan BC
& Online Across Canada
Havenwood Counselling is conveniently located in downtown Duncan, BC. Park in the Merit Furniture Parking lot and look for the Havenwood Counselling sign.
What to expect in a counselling session with Rubeena
We begin with exploring unwanted symptoms in your life. Something is bringing you to counselling, what is wanting to be changed?
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
Experiential therapy invites you to enter into the fields of your own human experience so you can find the new again.
Call to Action
Begin with a free 20-minute consultation.
Just an informal meet and greet so you can see if we are a fit for your needs.
Havenwood’s Professional Ethical & Commitment. We follow the ethical guidelines of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) and adhere to all privacy and confidentiality standards, including the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), to protect your sensitive information and ensure your trust in our work together.
Havenwood acknowledges with deep respect that we practice on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. Our downtown Duncan location rests on the traditional lands of the Quw’utsun (Cowichan) peoples, whose enduring relationship with this land continues to guide and shape its life.
Our Sahtlam location, nestled in the forested hills west of the city, lies within the broader territories of the Quw’utsun, and neighboring Nations including the Ts’uubaa-asatx, Halalt, Stz’uminus, Penelakut, Lyackson, and Malahat peoples. We recognize that this land was never ceded, and that colonization—including displacement, residential schools, and ongoing systemic harms—continues to affect Indigenous communities.
Havenwood honours and affirms the dignity, identities, and lived experiences of all people, including those who are Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and beyond (LGBTQIA2S+). We recognize and respect each person’s right to self-identify and express their gender and sexuality freely and authentically. We are committed to creating a safe, welcoming, and affirming space where all individuals are valued and supported in their journeys of healing and growth.
Havenwood recognizes that healing often involves more than just the mind and emotions — it can include the spirit as well. These sessions create space for your personal spiritual or existential beliefs to be explored and supported, without judgment or agenda. Whether you draw from a specific religious tradition, nature-based practices, meditation, or simply a sense of meaning or connection beyond yourself, this approach honours your inner life as a vital part of your healing process.