Counselling & Psychotherapy Services for Adults
Compassionate, evidence-based, and trauma-informed support for adults in the provinces of Alberta (AB), British Columbia (BC), Manitoba (MB), Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Ontario (ON), Saskatchewan (SK), Northwest Territories (NT), Nunavut (NU), Yukon (YT)
Reflective Counsellor™ offers online counselling and professionally facilitated support groups for adults navigating anxiety, burnout, bullies & boundaries, life transitions, return-to-work, overthinking, caregiving, and emotional overwhelm.
Choose a service below to learn more about the support available.
“Reflecting. Understanding your story. Healing what hurts. Creating what comes next.”
This complimentary 15-minute conversation is a welcoming first step to explore whether the therapeutic approach and services offered are a good fit for your needs.
This 15-minute inquiry is not a counselling session. It is to:
- Discuss your treatment goals and what brings you to counselling
- Ask questions about the counselling approach
- Explore whether the services are a good fit
- Take a confidential first step and request an appointment here.
A confidential one-on-one session focused on your personal goals and challenges. Aurora works with individuals navigating:
- Stress, burnout, and workplace challenges
- Anxiety, depression, and panic attacks
- Grief and anger management
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Life transitions and return-to-work support
Fee: $175 (50 minutes) | $275 (90 minutes)
Couples counselling supports couples who want to strengthen their relationship and work toward staying together.
- Premarital counselling
- Mature couples
- Couples with no children
Targeting shared goals such as anxiety reduction, stress management, and personal growth. Group therapy offers a safe, confidential space to connect with others facing similar challenges.
- Anxiety and stress management groups
- Burnout recovery and return-to-work groups
- Grief and life transitions support
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This complimentary 15-minute conversation is a welcoming first step to explore whether the therapeutic approach and services offered are a good fit for your needs.
This 15-minute inquiry is not a counselling session. It is to:
- Discuss your treatment goals and what brings you to counselling
- Ask questions about the counselling approach
- Explore whether the services are a good fit
- Request information on upcoming Therapy Group Support HERE.
A confidential one-on-one session focused on your personal goals and challenges. Aurora works with individuals navigating:
- Stress, burnout, and workplace challenges
- Anxiety, depression, and panic attacks
- Grief and anger management
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Life transitions and return-to-work support
Fee: $175 (50 minutes) | $275 (90 minutes)
Couples counselling supports couples who want to strengthen their relationship and work toward staying together.
- Premarital counselling
- Mature couples
- Couples with no children
Targeting shared goals such as anxiety reduction, stress management, and personal growth. Group therapy offers a safe, confidential space to connect with others facing similar challenges.
- Anxiety and stress management groups
- Burnout recovery and return-to-work groups
- Grief and life transitions support
- Take a confidential first step and request an appointment HERE.
“You have been strong for everyone else. This is a place where you can receive support, too.”
Invest in yourself and your future self
~ Reflective Counsellor™
This is your private space to understand, heal, and move forward. Individual therapy is tailored to your needs, experiences, values, culture, strengths, and goals. Our work may include understanding the deeper roots of your distress while also developing practical strategies you can begin using in your daily life.
Depending on your needs, Reflective Counsellor™️ may help you:
- Reduce anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and chronic worry
- Recover from burnout and prevent future emotional exhaustion
- Understand patterns connected to trauma, attachment, or past relationships
- Build stronger boundaries and reduce people-pleasing or social anxiety
- Develop healthier coping and emotional-regulation skills
- Reconnect with confidence, identity, meaning, and purpose
- Navigate grief, loss, caregiving, family estrangement, or relationship changes
- Prepare for a healthier and more sustainable return to work
- Strengthen self-compassion and reduce harsh self-criticism
- Create realistic routines for rest, wellness, and personal growth
Our sessions may draw from various evidence-informed approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Internal Family Systems-informed work, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and body-based regulation strategies.
You will not be treated as a diagnosis or labeled with a collection of symptoms, nor will you be judged. You will be welcomed as a whole person with a history, relationships, strengths, hopes, and a story that deserves to be heard.
Belonging and connection
~ Reflective Counsellor™
• Your total investment for the 4 weekly sessions of 90 minutes each is $380 (this equates to $95 per person per week).
• Groups maintain a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 participants.
Healing can feel different when you no longer feel alone. Sometimes the most powerful realization is discovering that other people understand what you have been carrying. Therapy support groups provide a professionally facilitated space using evidence-based techniques where participants can learn, reflect, practise new skills, receive encouragement, and experience meaningful connection. Groups are structured, respectful, confidential, and emotionally safe. You will never be pressured to disclose more than you are ready to share.
Therapy Group Support Programs Offered
Designed For: Individuals navigating difficult interpersonal dynamics, workplace harassment, or challenging relationships.
Learn practical strategies to recognize toxic behaviors, establish clear boundaries, build confidence, and protect your emotional well-being.
Designed For: Professionals, healthcare workers, educators, caregivers, leaders, and others carrying too much for too long.
Learn to recognize burnout patterns, regulate stress, set healthier boundaries, rebuild energy, and create a sustainable relationship with work and responsibility.
Designed For: Adults adjusting to a diabetes diagnosis or struggling with the emotional demands of long-term health management.
Explore stress, motivation, self-compassion, behaviour change, emotional eating, health-related anxiety, and sustainable self-care without shame or perfectionism.
Designed For: Individuals preparing to return to work after burnout, depression, anxiety, illness, workplace conflict, or medical leave.
Develop confidence, emotional readiness, boundary-setting skills, coping plans, and practical strategies for navigating the transition back to work.
Designed For: Adults facing retirement, career change, caregiving, relocation, relationship changes, identity shifts, grief, or other significant transitions.
Explore what is changing, honour what is being lost, and begin creating a meaningful next chapter.
Designed For: Individuals caring for an aging parent, partner, family member, or loved one with chronic or serious health concerns.
Receive support for caregiver fatigue, anticipatory grief, guilt, resentment, isolation, boundary challenges, and the emotional strain of caring deeply.
Designed For: Adults who struggle with overthinking, people-pleasing, perfectionism, emotional overwhelm, or difficulty saying no.
Learn practical skills for regulating emotions, communicating needs, building self-trust, and creating healthier relationships.
Important Registration & Registration Details:
- Intake is taken 2 months ahead to determine fit.
- Registration must be completed 2 weeks ahead by securing your spot via eTransfer to: ReflectiveCounsellor@gmail.com
- Cancellation Policy: Please confirm your attendance commitment as there will be no refunds once the course has begun, and any absence will not be refunded.
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What You Can Expect from Therapy Support Group
A therapeutic relationship grounded in warmth, respect, and collaboration. Therapy is most effective when you feel emotionally safe, genuinely understood, and actively involved in the process.
During our work together, you can expect:
- Compassion Without Judgment: You do not need to hide the complicated, painful, or imperfect parts of your experience.
- Practical Support: Along with meaningful reflection, you will receive tools, exercises, and strategies you can apply outside of therapy.
- A Pace That Respects You: We will move thoughtfully and collaboratively. You will not be forced to discuss experiences before you feel ready.
- Attention to the Whole Person: We may explore biological, psychological, social, cultural, relational, spiritual, and practical factors influencing your well-being.
- Strength-Based Care: Your struggles matter, but they are not the whole of who you are. We will reconnect with your capabilities, values, resilience, and hopes.
- Clear Goals and Direction: Together, we will identify what you would like to change and regularly reflect on your progress.
A Safe Place: You May Not Need to Become a Different Person
You may simply need a safer place to understand the person you already are. A place to:
- Recognize what your anxiety has been trying to protect you from.
- Understand why your body feels exhausted even when your mind tells you to keep going.
- Grieve what you have lost.
- Learn that boundaries are not rejection.
- Reconnect with the parts of you that became quiet while you were busy surviving.
Therapy is not about erasing your past. It is about helping your past carry less power over your present.
Is Therapy Right for You?
You do not need to have the perfect words, know exactly what is wrong, or have a clear treatment goal before reaching out. You may begin with something as simple as:
“I feel overwhelmed.” / “I am tired of carrying everything.” / “I do not feel like myself anymore.” / “I know something needs to change.” / “I want support, but I do not know where to begin.”
That is enough. We can begin there.
Virtual Counselling That Fits Into Your Life
Sessions are offered virtually, allowing you to access professional support from the privacy and comfort of your own space. Virtual counselling may be especially helpful when you have a demanding schedule, live outside a major city, prefer not to travel, or feel more comfortable at home.
Before booking, we will confirm whether virtual counselling is appropriate for your needs and whether services can be provided in your province or territory.
Frequently Asked Questions
The complimentary 15-minute consultation gives us an opportunity to briefly discuss what is bringing you to therapy, what kind of support you are looking for, and whether my approach may be a good fit for you. It is not a full therapy session, and you will not be expected to share your entire story.
The first session focuses on understanding your concerns, your current circumstances, your strengths, and what you hope will become different through counselling. We will begin identifying priorities and creating a treatment direction together.
No special preparation is required. You may wish to think about what has been most difficult lately and what you would like help with, but it is completely acceptable to arrive unsure of where to begin.
Participants are expected to protect one another’s privacy and follow clear group confidentiality agreements. The limits of confidentiality will be explained before the group begins. Although the facilitator will establish and reinforce confidentiality expectations, absolute confidentiality among participants cannot be guaranteed.
Participation is encouraged, but you will not be forced to disclose personal information before you feel ready. Many people begin by listening and gradually become more comfortable contributing.
Group therapy can be valuable on its own or alongside individual counselling. The appropriate option depends on your needs, goals, safety considerations, and current circumstances.
Reflective Counsellor™ is not an emergency or crisis-response service. If you are in immediate danger or require urgent support, contact 911 or emergency services or an appropriate crisis resource in your area.
A Gentle First Step
Reaching out for therapy can feel vulnerable, particularly when you are accustomed to handling things on your own. You do not need to commit to a long-term process today. You only need to take the next small step. Your life does not have to remain organized around exhaustion, fear, guilt, or survival. Support is available, and change can begin gradually.
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Accessing or using services provided by Reflective Counsellor™ or Aurora Espejo Atienza: Individual experiences vary, and no specific therapeutic, health, personal, or other outcome is promised or guaranteed. Services provided are not a crisis or emergency service. In Canada, call or text 9-8-8 for suicide crisis support or call 911 in an emergency.