Colour Wheel Counselling and Supervision

09/04/2025

🌱Registration open for a FREE Art Therapy Group for Parents🌱

Parenting calls on every part of us—our strengths, our challenges, and the pieces of our past that shaped us. This free group, open to parents living in the West Kootenays, is an invitation to use creativity as a way to:

🎨 Foster self-compassion
🌿 Understand how your past may impact your parenting
💫 Integrate unresolved experiences and make new choices

We’ll draw on principles from NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) to explore the adaptive survival strategies we developed in childhood—so we can move toward more authentic connection.

✨ “Connection is our deepest longing and greatest fear.” – Laurence Heller

📍 This is a free art therapy group for those living in the West Kootenays, funded by Ministry for Children and Family Development
🌄 Open to parents living in the West Kootenays
🎨 No art experience necessary

👉 Join us in discovering how to parent with the whole self. https://www.kutenaiarttherapy.com/parenting-group-online

09/02/2025

Understanding Individual Education Plans (IEPs) for Parents & Caregivers

Join Comox Valley Schools Inclusive Education and SD 71 DPAC for an important session to help parents and caregivers better understand Individual Education Plans (IEPs).

📅 Thursday, September 25th
🕡 6:30 – 8:00 pm
📍 2488 Idiens Way, Courtenay
💻 Zoom option available
👶 Free childcare option available

This session will provide families with tools and knowledge to support their children’s learning journeys.

✅ Registration is required.
📧 To register or learn more, email: dpac@sd71.bc.ca

09/01/2025

DBT – but make it doodled! Follow this flowchart to navigate through the skills in the module of

Like it? boy, do I have more for you. This summer, I’ve been quietly dropping dozens of DBT-themed resources on my Patreon. These are the same interactive visuals I’m binding into a full DBT activity book this fall – but Patrons don’t have to wait.

Instead of dry worksheets, these pages reimagine skills through doodle-style diagrams, interactive prompts, and visual storytelling. If you’ve been curious about supporting my work, now’s a great time to hop in and get early access to the entire activity book (plus 250+ other resources I’ve created) for $6/mo. Find me on Patreon

08/28/2025

What does neurodivergent actually mean? Too often, so called experts, advocates, influencers and even professionals get it wrong so here’s a graphic sharing what neurodivergent is and what neurodivergent isn’t.

💡neurodivergent is a socio-political term that names a social position and has always and continues to include anyone who diverges from neuronormativity including those with mental health conditions

🙅‍♂️ neurodivergent is not synonymous with neurodevelopmental condition nor is it another diagnosis or a medical, clinical or biological term

While not every neurodivergent person will use it as such, over the years it has become a term of resistance against the pathologisation of psychiatry who labels our differences, plurality, voice hearing and altered states as disorders or illnesses - this must be respected.

PS this graphic was inspired by another graphic that was blatantly sharing misinformation so hopefully people can share this one instead 🥲

08/26/2025

08/24/2025

Officially on Summer break.
Back in office and checking emails on Tuesday September 2nd.
For any admin questions during that time please email Jaimie at admin@colourwheelcounselling.com
To book an appointment, head to colourwheelcounselling.janeapp.com

See you all soon!

08/22/2025

Fall Supervision series starts September 16th!
We'll be meeting monthly on Tuesdays from 12:30-2:30.
All disabled and neurodivergent therapists welcome.
Register online at colourwheelcounselling.janeapp.com or email me at kathryn@colourwheelcounselling.com

08/21/2025

08/18/2025

Welcome!
We're so glad you're here!

08/16/2025

We've all heard the idea that neurotypicality is the center of a bell curve, but who is that bell curve based on?
It's not representative of the entire population, just a tiny segment.
Applying the results of culture-specific studies to all people isn't science, it's supremacy.
Being divergent from these expectations is something to be proud of.

🧠My 8-week virtual study group is a place we can discuss topics like this as a group. We start August 20! Lesson topics: Polyvagal 101, Polyvagal 401, Energetics of the ANS, the BioPsychoSocial Nervous System, Neurodivergent Trauma, Attachment Trauma, Systemic Trauma, and Pathways to Healing.
Details here: https://traumageek.thinkific.com/courses/2025-summer-study-group

08/16/2025

08/14/2025

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Understanding the Exhaustion, Pain, and Stress of Raising a PDA Child