nurture
counselling
Penny Fenske MA, RCC
I am here for you and will hold every aspect of you and your journey with tenderness and dignity. Working in private practice since 2009, in Victoria, Salt Salt Spring Island, and Duncan, I offer counselling from an attachment perspective that is emotion focused and body-based. My education, research, and practice have focused on understanding deeply and responding compassionately while supporting resilience in those who have experienced trauma and relationship ruptures. Whether sitting with individual, couples, or circles, I lean on my presence, attunement, somatic resonance, intuition, and curiosity to offer my empathy, warmth, questions, prompts, or reflections to deepen your process and connection to yourself and others. Level Three Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) training supports this capacity. To learn more about this effective, heart-based, neuroscientific therapeutic approach click here.
To hear a podcast on my approach click here
As a member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, I have met rigorous academic requirements, am committed to high professional standards of practice, and adhere to the BCACC code of ethical conduct.
I am registered as a service provider with FNHA and the BC Crime Victims Assistance Program, which provides financial assistance for individuals (and their families) who have been victims of a violent crime including physical and sexual abuse.
When I am not engaged with this work, you will find me in my sanctuary, the forest. I love to hike the forests, mountains, and ocean trails with Atlas, my adopted miniature poodle/co-therapist; tend my permaculture food forest; restore the forest on the land where I live; split wood; do yin yoga; listen to music that moves my soul; dance; and share time with friends and family.
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Jude/Jenna Berg MA, CCC
My work is about connection and emotional release. What you feel and need matters to me. Together, we will explore what matters most to you, your unique strengths, and help release your pain. I want to help you find more peace, freedom and connection. My work is somatic, emotion focused, and relational. I practice AEDP and Hakomi therapy. Let’s do something real (experiential) in the moment (here & now) together (relational).
I work with individuals and dyads. ‘Dyad work’ means that I work with family members in pairs, close friends in pairs, or partners in pairs. I am experienced in working with 2SLGBTQ+ community, neurodivergent folks, trauma (CPTSD), big feelings, OCD, and attachment wounds. I believe that communities were made to heal together, we evolved as herd animals!
I love to dance, sing and swim in the Gorge. I have a loving community of friends, chosen family, and my partner who have all been a part of my healing journey. I’ve also had and continue to have life changing therapy as a client. I am a queer, bigender, white settler living on lək̓ʷəŋən territory (Victoria, B.C.). I am working out of downtown Victoria and am happy to work in person or over video.
I am a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. I have an MA in Counselling Psychology and a BA in Child & Youth Care. I am in the midst of my 2nd level of AEDP training. I am registered with FNHA and Pacific Blue Cross.
Let's start with a 15 minute free consult to see if we are the right fit for this work. Email me here.
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Patrick Jackson CLC, MPCC in training
I am a certified life coach, men’s work facilitator and counsellor in training with additional experience and education in group facilitation, somatic practices, bodywork, and community conflict work. I work with individuals, couples and small groups online.
Coaching is a collaborative process focused on helping you achieve the goals that matter to you, clarify what you need, realize your potential and work through barriers. With empathy and a willingness to lovingly challenge you to build accountability and get results, I offer a supportive and skillful collaborator with whom you can plan, dream, implement, create, take stock, re-evaluate, question, answer, transform, or simply explore what is possible and achievable in making the changes you wish to make.
My counselling approach is integrative. It is experiential, relational, attachment informed, somatic, and based on the transformative role that healthy emotional expression can have in rebuilding a flexible and resilient nervous system, as supported by neuroscience. I also include elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and Narrative therapy to support clients in achieving short-term goals while working towards long-term healing.
For men: I’m inspired by the work I do with men because of the goodness, strength and beauty that emerges when supportive conditions are created. I have experienced many of the challenges with loneliness, work, family, and relationships that men struggle with - including the difficulty finding effective support. Together with a wide diversity of professional experience, this gives me a deep compassion for the different ways in which we cope as best we can. It takes courage to seek support and change. I will meet you where you need to be met, with respect, understanding, and effective tools to help you get to where you want to be.
I bring an intersectional and liberatory lens to the healing journey. This means that I seek to understand our individual challenges in context that includes the overlapping and cumulative impacts of systemic oppression, discrimination, culture and privilege. As a straight, white, cisgender man, it matters deeply to me to continue to deepen my learning around what it means to be an ally and agent of change.
Cold rivers, wet forests, dance, and hanging with the horses are how I recharge and ground. As a father, divorcee, partner and friend to a menagerie of animals and a few humans, my life is filled with opportunities, challenges and gratitude.