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Unfurl with Moss and Fern Counselling

Connect with yourself, nature and community.

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About Me

REGISTERED CLINICAL COUNSELLOR

Hello, I am Autumn!

 

I have been working in the mental health field since 2010. My goal is to bring community together by helping individuals and families form meaningful and safe connections with themselves and their environment.  

 

As a Registered Clinical Counsellor, this is accomplished by being rooted in evidence-based practices that include narrative therapy, expressive therapy, and with nature as a co-supporter through a nature-based therapy lens.

 

I create a safe, secure, calm, non-judgmental space to nurture your authentic self.  Imagine feeling safe enough to unmask, be unapologetically you, and be able to discuss what matters to you at your speed - to be able to unfurl and stretch out like the fronds of a fern.

 

I am here to walk with you as you develop your own core attachment to self while connecting to those around you, including nature.

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Counselling Services

SUPPORTING YOUR CONNECTIONS

Nature-Based Counselling

Nature is all around us, even in urban environments. Why not be guided through your therapeutic healing journey while building connections to the environment around you? These connections will be facilitated with confidentiality, privacy and therapeutic containment in mind.

 

Have your counselling sessions in a local park or nearby trail and get the benefits of therapeutic guidance during your sessions from your counsellor and additional grounding and calm from the presence of nature.

 

Nature-based counselling can also be beneficial in an indoor or virtual environment.

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Online Counselling & Telehealth

It can be difficult to find time for the commute to appointments.  Or you may choose to have an outdoor session in your location while we chat by phone. If that is the case, experience the therapeutic benefits of a registered clinical counsellor via telephone or video conferencing options. Sessions can still be tailored to include art or other expressive therapy as needed.

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Expressive Therapy

By incorporating art and other expressive therapy options in the therapeutic setting, you have the opportunity to process, build resilience, and navigate your own emotions. This puts less pressure on finding the right words in the moment, allowing more ability to process as needed, when needed.

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Learn more about Expressive Therapy

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Parents & Caregivers

Connect for additional support either through individual counselling sessions or sessions focusing on processing questioning family planning/parenting, fertilization, gestation, adoption, or foster care. 

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Sessions could also focus on parenting while being neurodivergent, parenting at different ages, parenting during different developmental periods and ethical/environmental/social concerns while parenting.

Mental Health Workers

Working as an outreach worker, peer support worker or other social housing support roles can be a very complex role.  Mixed in with wanting to provide support likely is overwhelm, stress and sometimes even trauma.  On top of that can be the complication of not wanting to "feel like the client/resident" and having difficulty navigating when you might need someone additional to talk to.

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“One thing I’ve learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as random. Everything is steeped in meaning, colored by relationships, one thing with another.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Contact Moss & Fern

Email & Phone

778-791-4003

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Office Details

Unit 103 - 713 Columbia St. New Westminster, BC

  • In-person therapy sessions

  • Nature-based expressive therapy space

  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Wait list available - email to inquire

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Moss & Fern Counselling honours and recognizes the countless sacrifices made by our Hosts so that we may live in the privilege that we do & we commit to putting our privilege to use by including decolonizing work that is both personal and professional as part of our practice.  As this work also includes community and continuous learning, we commit to hiring Indigenous Facilitators/Educators in ways that are appropriate & as respectful as possible in accordance with our practice of allyship.  

 

The Indigenous People of this land, the unceded Coast Salish Territories, includes the Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem First Nations as well as the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwantlen, and Tsawwassen peoples, who have been stewards of this area for many generations.

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The Qayqayt First Nation is one of the smallest First Nations in Canada and the only one registered without a land base.  Chief Rhonda Larrabee gifts her story and her revitalization of the Qayqayt First Nations in the documentary called "A Tribe Of One" that can be found here

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