Our Team

Shauna provides phone and virtual/video counselling to clients across British Columbia. She enjoys working with adults of all gender identities and sexual orientations through individual or partnered sessions.

Through an inclusive, collaborative and trauma-informed lens, Shauna has a vested interest in helping clients learn about stress and related disorders, trauma, and healthy sexuality during various adult life stages so that they can live their best, most fulfilling life possible.

Recognizing the connection between the mind and body, Shauna takes a holistic approach to fostering wellness in a way that works for each unique client. Shauna strives to hold space for clients as she meets them where they are at, walking alongside individuals as they explore their individual healing journey.

Shauna’s work with couples supports the development of relational safety, open and healthy communication patterns, connection, and a deeper understanding of one another. While one of her areas of specialization is sex therapy, the work she does with partners extends into other realms of their relationship as well.

Shauna engages a variety of counselling approaches in her work with couples, including the Gottman Method. The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflict, improve communication, increase intimacy, respect, and affection, remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy, and build empathy and understanding between partners. Shauna’s training in this approach is integrated into her work with couples/partners across a broad range of concerns that have brought them to relationship therapy.

Shauna specializes in assisting clients with healthy sexual development, including, but not limited to:

• Enhancing communication

• Conflict resolution

• Rekindling romance

• Bringing elements of play into the intimate relationship

• Gaining empowerment in identifying and articulating sexual wants, needs and fantasy exploration with partners

• Challenging problematic sexual narratives

• Demystifying the sexual experience

• Dismantling sexual shame

• Vulva-owner's sexual health and wellness

• Sexual dysfunction

• Low libido

• Gender identity and/or orientation exploration

• Addictive sexual behaviours

• Coping with problematic sexual interests/behaviours

Shauna is a Certified Somatic Sex Therapist and is currently working on earning her PhD in Clinical Sexology.

Shauna also has a great deal of experience working with clients facing the impacts of stress and trauma, winning a national award for her work in supporting the mental wellbeing of public service personnel. Shauna recognizes that trauma presents differently based on each person’s journey, and works with individuals and partners based on their unique experiences.

She supports clients experiencing stress and effects of trauma such as:

• Coping with trauma from childhood and beyond

• Intergenerational trauma

• Compounded traumatic experiences

• Institutionalization

• Systemic oppression

• Experiences of sexual abuse

• Addiction

• Post Traumatic Stress Responses

• Burnout

• First responder fatigue and/or experiences

• Issues unique to partners/spouses of First Responders

• Critical Incident Stress Management follow up

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Understanding the stress response

• Emotional dysregulation

• Developing effective coping strategies

• Releasing the hold of stress and trauma within the body

Her training and experience supporting neurodiverse clients, both individually and in partnered sessions, allows Shauna to offer neurodiversity-adapted care to clients.

Shauna’s approach to counselling blends together techniques from Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Somatic-based Therapies, based on the needs of her clients.

For clients who are interested, Shauna integrates Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapy to increase the benefits of the other modalities she uses in the therapeutic setting. Hypnotherapy can be used to support clients with a range of concerns including: inner child healing, PTSD and other trauma, anxiety, confidence, motivation, anger management, and breaking unwanted habits. Shauna uses hypnotherapy to support clients to harness their natural ability to drift off and then guides them through a personalized therapeutic experience, promoting lasting positive change and emotional wellness. Shauna's training through Daybreak Therapy and Training and her designation as a Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapist-Trauma Specialty (C.Hyp) allows her to provide thoughtful and competent hypnotherapy services to her clients. 

With a passion for lifelong learning, Shauna has complemented her Master of Science in Psychology degree and in-progress Ph.D. in Clinical Sexology with various additional trainings, including:

• Certified Somatic Sex Therapist

• Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Levels 1 & 2)

• Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapist-Trauma Specialty (C.Hyp)

• EFT Level 1 and 2 training

• Understanding Emergency Worker Trauma

• Understanding Firefighter Culture & Trauma

• San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training

Shauna is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC).

Shauna is happy to acknowledge her privilege to live, work, learn and play on the traditional, unceded and ancestral lands of the Matsqui and Sto:lo peoples, giving thanks to the many teachers she has encountered whom allow her to honour this land and its people in a respectful and better-informed manner.

Rate

Individuals
$155 per 50 minute session
$250 per 80 minute session

Couples/Partners
$180 per 50 minute session
$290 per 80 minute session