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. 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. This includes my being a Level Three Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy practitioner (AEDP). 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
As a Certified Life Coach, I partner with you to support realizing your potential and working through barriers to achieving your goals in any area of your life. With empathy and a willingness to lovingly challenge you to build accountability where it matters most to you, I offer myself as a compassionate 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.
Even though it may sometimes feel out of reach, we all have a deep inner sense of what we need in order to live a purposeful and rewarding life. With the right conditions and support, we can all create more coherence and alignment with our authentic selves and access the vitality and satisfaction that comes from being true to who we are. (this paragraph could be left out…)
As a counsellor in training, I bring a trauma informed lens to the life coaching process and am well positioned to support clients in the process of making and sustaining life changes that can result from deep healing work. I am a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and works within the ICF Code of Ethics.
My work is rooted in love and courage. Together, these values inform my evolving work offerings and guide me in the ongoing discovery of my role in the multi-generational project of dismantling systems of oppression and healing our relationships with each other and the earth. I brings an intersectional and liberatory lens to the healing journey and the impacts of individual life-choices.
As simultaneous beneficiaries and victims of a patriarchal society, men’s healing has a particular flavour and importance. It is a topic that I am passionate about and have been working with since 2009 when I did my first 3-day men’s initiation retreat through the Mankind Project.
I am a professional with a wide variety of life experience including training in group facilitation, somatic practices, bodywork, community conflict work, and governance. As well as decades in men’s circles, my diverse experience includes operations management, running a group home and driving a tow truck. I lives on unceded Quw'utsun territory.
Curiosity and gratitude together with a deep respect and empathy for the experience of others, supports me in creating and sustaining group spaces in which everyone’s truth is welcome and can be safely held. I trusts the wisdom of our hearts and bodies as intelligent guides.
Cold rivers, wet forests, dance, and hanging with the horses are how I recharges 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.