About Wendy
My passion for empowering clients to help them realise their self-improvement goals has been the driving force behind my work as a counsellor and art therapist. As part of my art therapy practical experience, I provided art therapy sessions at a women’s centre, for foster children undergoing assessment, for youth offenders, and ran a summer art therapy group for women with mental health and substance use issues. I have also volunteered on the crisis line dealing with mental health emergencies.
I did my undergrad in Elementary Education at the University of Victoria, and then studied Art and Psychology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for several years. This led to getting a graduate diploma program at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute and pursuing a Master's in Counselling Psychology through Yorkville University, then becoming a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BCACC.
During my Master’s practicum, I worked with adults with a wide range of relationship and mental health issues, including depression, grief and loss, anxiety, anger management, suicidal ideation, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and borderline personality disorder. I utilised modalities such as Client-centred, Strengths-based, Positive Psychology, and Solution-focused techniques, Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
For the past 4 years at Pivot Point Family Growth Centre, I have worked as a Family Support Worker, Educational Behavioural Interventionist in the Community Classroom, a Complex Care worker with indigenous foster children/youth, and a Summer Camp Group Activity Leader, in addition to my work as a Counsellor and Neurofeedback brain trainer. Although the majority of my clients have been 5-18 years old, I have worked with adult clients as well.
While Autism and neurodiversity were the focus of services delivered by Pivot Point, many of my counselling clients were also dealing with depression, anxiety, grief, anger management, OCD, ADD/ADHD, gender dysphoria and identity, or life transitions. When working with children, I have found art therapy and the use of emotional intelligence, social and communication skills games, and bibliotherapy highly effective in allowing them to open up and develop emotional regulation and better coping skills and communication strategies.
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