Support when life feels heavy ~ In-Person Therapy Nelson BC & Online
Psychotherapist & Registered Clinical Counsellor
Betrayal Trauma, Relational Trauma & Individual Counselling
When life or relationships leave you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of yourself, you don't have to navigate it alone.
Sometimes the source of distress is clear: the discovery of infidelity or deception, the end of a relationship, a significant loss, or another experience that has changed life as you knew it.
At other times, it is harder to name. You may feel anxious, stuck, disconnected from yourself, caught in familiar patterns, or aware that something in your life or relationships is no longer working.
I provide trauma-informed counselling for adults experiencing betrayal and relational trauma, attachment concerns, grief and loss, anxiety, life transitions, and periods of emotional overwhelm or disconnection.
I have a particular focus on the impact that painful relationship experiences can have on a person's sense of safety, identity, trust, and emotional wellbeing — while also working with people who come to therapy for many other reasons.
When relationships stop feeling safe
Some of our deepest injuries happen within relationships where we expected to feel safe, loved, known, or protected.
The injury is not only about what happened. It can also be about who it happened with.
You may be trying to make sense of infidelity, sexual or emotional betrayal, chronic deception, separation, emotional abuse, attachment wounds, or another significant rupture in an important relationship.
When trust is broken by someone important to you, your mind and body may respond in ways that feel unfamiliar or difficult to control. You may find yourself constantly on alert, questioning your judgment, replaying what happened, searching for answers, or struggling to know what — or whom — you can trust.
These responses can make sense when an important source of safety and connection has also become a source of uncertainty or pain.
RCC & CCC ~ Insurance Receipts Provided
Therapy isn't only for times of crisis
You don't need to have experienced a betrayal or significant relationship injury to work with me.
People come to therapy for many reasons. Sometimes there has been a specific event; sometimes there is a growing sense that something needs to change.
You may be experiencing:
- anxiety, overwhelm, or difficulty settling your thoughts
- grief following a death, separation, or other significant loss
- a major life transition or uncertainty about what comes next
- relationship or family difficulties
- patterns of people-pleasing, overfunctioning, or difficulty setting boundaries
- questions about identity, meaning, or direction
- difficulty trusting yourself or understanding what you need
- old experiences that continue to influence how you feel or relate to others
- a sense of being stuck, disconnected, or no longer quite yourself
Much of therapy eventually touches relationships in some way — our relationships with other people, our earlier experiences of attachment and belonging, and the relationship we have with ourselves.
But there doesn't need to be a relationship crisis for therapy to be meaningful.
Sometimes the starting point is simply: something isn't feeling right, and I would like to understand it better.
In-person therapy in Nelson, BC and secure online counselling with Carla Duda, Psychotherapist
Therapy can help you find your footing
Whatever brings you to counselling, we begin by trying to understand what is happening for you rather than assuming what needs to change.
Therapy can help you make sense of emotional and physiological responses, recognize patterns that may once have protected you, process grief and painful experiences, develop clearer boundaries, and reconnect with your own values and internal signals.
For someone recovering from betrayal, this may mean creating enough stability to begin making decisions about the relationship from a more grounded place.
For someone grieving, it may mean finding a way to live alongside a loss that has changed them.
For someone feeling anxious, stuck, or uncertain about the direction of their life, it may mean becoming more curious about what lies beneath those feelings and what they are asking for.
The work is different for each person.
The goal is not to tell you who you should become or what you should do. It is to help you understand yourself more deeply and develop greater freedom in how you respond to your life.
During your first session we will:
- talk about what has brought you here
- discuss your goals for therapy
- explore what's been happening
- decide together whether we're a good fit
There is no pressure, you don't need to have everything figured out, and we will begin where you are.
