COUNSEllINg
Come Home to Who You Are
Counselling is a professional service designed to help individuals navigate personal, emotional, psychological, and social challenges. Through evidence-based therapeutic approaches and a supportive, non-judgmental environment, counselling provides a safe and confidential space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. This process can foster greater self-awareness, support improved mental health, and help you develop practical coping strategies for life’s challenges.
A trusting, collaborative relationship with your counsellor is one of the most important factors in creating meaningful and lasting change. Whether you are working through a specific concern or seeking personal growth, counselling offers guidance, support, and practical tools tailored to your unique needs.
The benefits of counselling extend beyond mental and emotional well-being. It can strengthen relationships by improving communication skills, helping to resolve conflict, and encouraging healthier boundaries. Counselling can also support positive behavioural changes that contribute to a healthier lifestyle.
Reducing stress and anxiety may improve sleep and overall physical well-being, while building resilience can help you navigate future challenges with greater confidence. By fostering personal growth and emotional well-being, counselling can help you lead a more balanced, fulfilling, and meaningful life.
What it Does
Counseling offers a wide array of benefits that can enhance mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. By providing a supportive environment, counseling can help you to make changes in your life for the better. Counselling clients often notice:
- Enhanced self-awareness
- Improved resilience
- Improvement in mood and outlook
- Greater ability to cope with difficult emotions
- Reduced stress
- Reduced or better-managed anxiety
- Reduced symptoms of depression or improved management of depression
- Increased self-esteem and self-confidence
- Greater emotional regulation
- Healthier boundaries and relationships
- Improved communication skills
- Increased confidence in decision-making
- Stronger problem-solving skills
- Support through grief, loss, trauma, and major life transitions
- Greater sense of purpose and personal growth
- Increased mindfulness and present-moment awareness
- Feeling heard, understood, and less alone
What to Expect at BOOM Healing
During counselling at BOOM Healing, clients will experience focused and compassionate listening. We help clients deepen their awareness around issues and challenges which will inform solutions and promote healing. At BOOM Healing, we take a holistic perspective to health and healing that considers the body, mind, environment, relationships, and, if it is a fit for you, the spiritual world.
The counsellors at BOOM Healing specialize in nervous system regulation and are highly trained in trauma-informed care. While traditional talk therapy is an important part of the healing process, we also offer a range of evidence-informed, body-based approaches that support lasting change. These include the following:
Somatic Experiencing® helps release the effects of stress and trauma by gently working with the body’s natural responses, rather than focusing only on thoughts or memories.
Somatic Touch uses safe, therapeutic touch to support nervous system regulation, strengthen boundaries, and address developmental or attachment-related trauma.
NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback is a non-invasive brain training technology that provides real-time feedback, allowing the brain to optimize its own functioning and improve resilience.
Breathwork uses intentional breathing techniques to calm the nervous system, reduce stress, and deepen awareness of the connection between the mind and body.
By integrating these approaches with traditional counselling, we help clients restore regulation, build resilience, and reconnect with a greater sense of well-being.
About Your Practitioners
Counselling at BOOM Healing is conducted by Amanda Ward and Hunter MacInnes.
Amanda is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC), a Somatic Touch Therapist, and a Certified NeurOptimal® Neurofeedback Trainer. Amanda’s mission is to make a difference in the world by helping one person at a time truly heal and come home to themselves. You can learn more about Amanda here.
Hunter is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®. Hunter’s work is especially supportive for people who have spent years in therapy gaining insight, yet still feel stuck in old patterns, survival responses, or disconnected from themselves. She offers relational somatic counselling and experiential sessions that integrate breathwork, somatic practices, and nervous system-based techniques to support lasting change, emotional regulation, and embodiment. You can learn more about Hunter here.
Let’s Work Together
Book with Amanda
- Counselling
- Somatic Touch
- Neurofeedback
Book with Hunter
- Counselling
- Somatic Experiencing®
- Breathwork