Havenwood Counselling Adult Therapy Services
True Change is Possible
Adult Therapy Services
Evidence-Based Experiential Therapy
Individual 1:1 TherapyTrue inner change rarely arises from insight alone—it unfolds when deeper emotional patterns are transformed through evidence-based healing processes.
Our work together is grounded in neuroscience and centered on lived experience. We begin with what’s already present—the patterns, symptoms, and emotional responses that arise in daily life. These become our entry points, allowing the wisdom of symptoms to guide us toward what needs to heal and change - leading to practical, long-lasting transformation.
Whether you’re navigating life changes, burnout, anxiety, depression, reactivity, stress, low mood, hopelessness or wanting to move through trauma and elevated responses - this kind of therapy is designed to help uncover emotional blocks & patterns, and support long lasting change. These therapy sessions utilize a blend of experiential modalities (AEDP & ACT) to align to support healing.
Process Arts-Informed Therapy
A creative, experiential approach that supports emotional understanding and change through simple, structured creative processes.
Memory & Imagination are intimately link. Sessions explore past memories, and envision new modes of perceiving inner life and outer relationships.
We may include brief use of images or basic art materials, used to support reflection and emotional processing.
When helpful, symbolic material is approached —as lived experience and meaning—rather than through interpretation, supporting access to deeper layers of awareness.
No art experience necessary, this is about process, not product.
Individual 1:1 Therapy
Coherence Therapy is a neuroscience-informed, unified set of methods and concepts designed to support profound change with a high level of consistency. A clear, structured seven-step process helps clients identify and change the emotional beliefs behind persistent patterns.
Together, we identify the emotional learning behind a symptom, bring it into awareness, and update it through a memory reconsolidation process—so patterns can change at their source.
This approach may not be a fit if you are primarily seeking coping strategies, advice, or skills-based therapy. It is also not typically appropriate as a starting point for individuals experiencing significant, ongoing trauma responses that require stabilization or nervous-system regulation first.
Coherence Therapy is most effective for people who are ready to engage actively with their emotional experience as part of the change process. Because this work unfolds over time, a minimum of three sessions is required.
Individual 1:1 TherapyCoherence Therapy
The Havenwood Counselling Approach
Evidence-Based Experiential
Trauma Therapy for AdultsIn Person on Vancouver Island & Online Across Canada.
What this looks like in practice
Experiential: More about "feeling" and "experiencing" than purely talking or analyzing.
Targeted: Directly targets the emotional roots of problems for deeper, faster change.
Empirically-Derived: Based on scientific understanding of memory and brain function, and how traumatic experiences, memories, and relationships can be changed and healed—allowing thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to change as well.
Areas commonly supported
Anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm
School pressure and performance concerns
Low mood, withdrawal, or irritability
Identity and self-esteem challenges
Family transitions or relational strain
Trauma responses and nervous system dysregulation
At its heart, Havenwood Counselling offers adults a space where emotional experience can be met with care, understood more deeply, and gradually transformed into resilience and self-trust.
Meet Rubeena
Rubeena is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, educator, and fine artist with nearly twenty years of experience supporting children, youth, and families.
She is known for her calm, relational presence and her ability to help young people feel at ease—meeting them with warmth, humour, and respect.
In-person and remote options
Our office is conveniently located in in Duncan, BC. A place to gather, grow, and reconnect.