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Services
Compassionate Counselling
Come as you are. Bring the parts of you that feel tired, tangled, or unsure. This is a space where you will be met with warmth, curiosity, and compassion, not judgment.
I offer holistic and integrative approach that blends somatic practices, gentle inquiry, belief exploration, and intuitive, energy-informed awareness to support healing in a grounded and meaningful way. This work honours the understanding that our experiences live not only in our thoughts, but within the body and nervous system as well. Everything we explore together is collaborative, consent-based, and guided by what feels supportive for you.
This is therapy ReDefined. Support that honours your whole self and moves at the pace of trust.
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Family Counselling
Families move through seasons and some seasons feel connected and steady. Others bring tension, misunderstandings, behavioural challenges, or life changes that leave everyone unsure how to move forward.
Working with children and adolescents holds a special place in my heart. Children are trying to make sense of the world around them. When something feels confusing, overwhelming, or painful, their behaviour often becomes the language they use to communicate it. I believe children are incredibly perceptive and deeply influenced by the environments they grow in. When we take the time to listen with curiosity and compassion, their behaviour often begins to make sense. Working with children means working alongside the people who care for them, because when families begin to understand one another in new ways, lasting meaningful change becomes possible. In my work with children I draw from play therapy, behavioural strategies, psychodynamic understanding, psychoeducational support, and contextual family approaches. These methods allow children to communicate in ways that feel authentic and safe for them.
Family counselling can help families:
• Improve communication and understanding
• Work through conflict in healthier ways
• Support children who are struggling emotionally or behaviourally
• Help parents feel more confident responding to their child’s needs
• Navigate transitions such as separation, school challenges, or family stress
• Strengthen connection, trust, and emotional safety within the home
As curiosity replaces blame, we begin to understand the meaning beneath behaviour. Families often discover new ways to move forward together.
Wherever your family is in this moment, that’s where our work together begins
Caring for the Caregiver
Caring for the Caregiver
ReDefining meaningful change
Caring for the Caregiver was created for people who care deeply, take responsibility for others, and often place the needs of others ahead of their own. This includes helping professionals, caregivers, leaders, parents, and anyone whose role involves holding emotional, relational, or organizational weight for others. Over time, this way of being can lead to burnout, conflict, resentment, or a quiet loss of self.
With over twenty years of experience in community and social services, along with ongoing professional development, I have come to understand that many people are drawn to helping professions from a place of deep care, lived experience, and unresolved wounds. As described by Carl Jung, the wounded healer often enters this work to meet needs for purpose, belonging, or worth through caring for others. When these patterns remain unexamined, they can lead to over functioning, blurred boundaries, and a slow erosion of wellbeing that ultimately impacts both staff and client outcomes.
Consulting with organizations on staff support models and offering workshops has become a core focus of my work. Having experience both behind the scenes and on the front lines, I bring a well rounded perspective on the needs of individuals, teams, and systems. In roles where care, responsibility, and emotional labour are central, supporting the caregiver is just as critical as supporting those they serve.
Caring for the Caregiver offers space for reflection, awareness, and practical shifts that support sustainability and wellbeing. When caregivers feel seen, supported, and resourced, meaningful change becomes possible. For individuals, teams, and organizations alike.
Let’s work together to strengthen support from the inside out.
Family Constellation Therapy
Family Constellation Therapy is a systemic approach developed by Bert Hellinger. It is based on the understanding that we are born into families where we inherit more than biology alone. We also absorb relational patterns, belief systems, emotional roles, and unspoken histories that can quietly influence our lives.
Often, these patterns operate outside of our awareness. We may find ourselves repeating dynamics, carrying emotions that feel bigger than our own story, or feeling stuck in ways that do not make logical sense. This work invites gentle curiosity into those inherited influences, without blame or judgment.
Family Constellation Therapy offers a way to explore family systems with compassion and respect. By bringing attention to what may have been unseen, unacknowledged, or unresolved, the work can support healing of past trauma, greater understanding, and a sense of peace within the system. The intention is not to relive the past, but to create space for balance, clarity, and forward movement.
About
Ashley Johnson
Registered Professional Counsellor Provisional
Canadian Professional Counsellors Association
I am a Registered Professional Counsellor Provisional with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association and practice under clinical supervision in alignment with CPCA standards. My provisional status reflects a commitment to ethical practice, accountability, and ongoing professional development, while offering grounded, compassionate, and client-centred support.
I am also the creator and facilitator of Caring for the Caregiver, a workshop, training, and consulting program developed through more than twenty years of experience in community and social services. My work alongside caregivers, families, and support staff shaped this program, informed by a deep understanding of the emotional load carried by those who care for others. Caring for the Caregiver was created to offer practical insight, reflection, and sustainable support.
Through both professional training and lived experience, I have seen how unprocessed emotions do not simply disappear. They live within the body and can create dis-ease over time. Whether you are seeking counselling, workshops, consulting, or collaboration, my intention is to create an honest, safe, and welcoming space where meaningful personal work can begin.
Registered Professional Counsellor with the CPCA
I am a Registered Professional Counsellor - Provisional (RPC) with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA). The CPCA is a national professional association that supports ethical practice, competency based standards, and professional accountability in counselling. Holding this designation means I have met requirements related to education, qualifying assessment, and counselling practice.
Why this matters
For clients, this means you are working with a counsellor who is committed to professional standards, ethical practice, and ongoing development. It reflects accountability, a clear scope of practice, and a commitment to offering care that is grounded, responsible, and client centred.
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