HOPE Centered Counselling

08/13/2025

Exciting news — two new therapy groups in Fergus! 🌟
Neurodivergent Parenting: 15-session cycle to learn, connect, and feel supported raising ND kids, teens, & young adults.
LGBTQ+ & Politics: Safe space to explore today’s issues affecting q***r folks — laws, identity, mental health — and share coping strategies.

07/13/2025

An amazing friend of mine is hosting this beautiful retreat in September for those of us women who don’t have the emotional support of a mother, weather due to loss, distance, illness, emotional absence, or other. This is your space to rest, receive, and reconnect with the strength and softness that is within you.

For those who don’t have the emotional support of a mother, whether due to loss, distance, illness, emotional absence, or other. This is your space to rest, receive, and reconnect with the strength and softness within you.

07/13/2025

ROOTED IN COMPASSION. BUILT ON TRUST. CENTERED ON YOU.
Hope Centered Counselling is a space where you can exhale, where your story is honoured, your pain is held with care, and your hope is gently rebuilt. At Hope Centered Counselling, we meet you as you are: not to fix, but to walk with you toward healing, growth, and deeper self-understanding. Here, your voice matters! Your pace is respected. And your journey is supported with grounded presence and real connection.
Book your appointment today https://hopecenteredcounselling.ca

06/17/2025

Sign up for our therapy group July 9th: NAVIGATING THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE AS A MEMBER OF THE Q***R COMMUNITY.

Coming together to share our experiences, insights, and coping strategies about a specific topic impacting our community. Together we can get through this!

This structured group is facilitated by our lovely, beautifully q***r therapist Elizabeth (Liz) she/her, who was manning the Hope Centered Counselling booth at our amazing CW Pride Celebration June 14th. This group starts Wednesday July 9th, 2025, from 6-9pm, bi-weekly, for 6 sessions in our Fergus office location. Journals and pens provided.

Some of the guided topics to expect are: our current political climate in Canada and America, it's impact on mental health and marginalized people, social media impacts, what it means to be q***r in environments such as church, school, and work, the charter of human rights & freedoms, the ministry of labour, other protective laws for q***r folk, identity, and we have also planned flexibility so that you can contribute to topic development. You will be given professional guidance and tools to help you navigate your experience and mental health.

Here at Hope Centered Counselling we strive to be the #1 safe space in Centre Wellington for all your q***r therapy needs, and we are very much looking forward to sharing this experience with you, and supporting you through this complicated topic.

The cost is approximately $11.66 per 3 hour evening, pennies in comparison to a single therapy session. Total payment $210 is due on the start date July 9th. If the lump sum payment makes attending the group inaccessible for you, please email our Owner & Founder Janeen at janeen.counselling@gmail.com to make alternative arrangements.

Sign up today to reserve your spot! Please send us an email to elizabeth.hopecc@gmail.com and provide us with your name, email and phone number, saying you would like to sign up to the group.

Thank you,
The team at Hope Centered Counselling (HCC)

06/05/2025

Join Hope Centered Counselling (HCC) at our first ever Centre Wellington Pride Celebration! Our Director and Founder is on the Pride Committee and promises it's going to be an unforgettable afternoon.

Be sure to stop by our booth and say hello because we have a ton of free stuff to give away, and personalized journals you don't wanna miss. You also have a chance to win one with a spin of our prize wheel, but beware you could land on the water gun fight as well, you better run! 🏃‍♂️ 💦

The entertainment for our first ever Centre Wellington Pride event will host the amazing Anat Hector, and our talented q***r and local band Groundcover.

There will be lots of community vendors with homemade and locally produced items for sale, information booths, and loads of activities for the whole family to have fun.

🧀 Come hungry! , our beloved local food truck, will be serving up delicious eats all day.

✨ The event is free and open to everyone. Don’t miss this chance to celebrate, connect, and support our amazing community!

🗓 Date: Saturday, June 14, 2025
📍 Location: Wellington County Museum & Archives
⏰ Time: 1pm - 4:30pm

🔗 Check out the link in our bio and follow Centre Wellington Pride for future updates!

Tag your friends and spread the word, let's make this afternoon one to remember!

05/30/2025

🌿 Counsellor Highlight: Meet Lizzy! 🌿

Therapy can be a space of growth, curiosity, and even lightness, especially when life feels overwhelming or uncertain. Lizzy approaches each session with warmth, openness, and a deep respect for the different ways people learn, process, and heal.

From a young age, Lizzy found herself drawn to helping others, shaped by both her personal experiences with mental health in her family and her own neurodivergence. These early insights inspired a lifelong commitment to understanding how unique minds move through the world, and how therapy can support them along the way.

With over 14 years of experience and a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University, Lizzy brings a client-guided, intersectional lens to her work. She draws from CBT, DBT, and ACT-based approaches to support youth, young adults, and adults navigating life transitions, medical diagnoses (including brain injuries), identity exploration, and emotional challenges.

Lizzy’s sessions are collaborative, empowering, and tailored to meet you where you’re at. She believes that while therapy can be hard work, it doesn’t have to feel heavy, and that meaningful change happens when we feel safe to show up as our full selves.

Outside the therapy room, Lizzy is an avid ringette player (she’s been playing since age four!), and also enjoys skiing, rock climbing, hiking, being near water, and unwinding with video games and friends.

🔹 Lizzy is currently accepting new clients. If you’re looking for a supportive space to explore, grow, and reconnect with yourself, head to our website to book, link in bio!

05/23/2025

🌿 Counsellor Highlight: Meet Anthony! 🌿

Life doesn’t always go the way we expect, and sometimes, it can feel heavy, uncertain, or even hopeless. But even in the hardest moments, Anthony believes we can uncover strength, meaning, and purpose. His role as a therapist is to walk alongside you, helping you navigate life’s challenges while holding space for your healing, growth, and transformation.

Anthony brings a deeply personal lens to his work, shaped by his own experience with medical trauma. After surviving a series of strokes, he committed to living with intention, and to helping others do the same. That journey now informs his empathetic and purpose-driven approach to therapy.

Drawing from an existential and Logotherapy framework, Anthony supports clients in exploring life’s big questions, while also offering practical tools from CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Psychodynamic, and Person-Centered approaches. Whether you’re navigating grief, addiction recovery, medical illness, shifting identity, or feeling stuck and disconnected, Anthony creates a thoughtful, grounded space to process and move forward.

He honours spirituality in all its forms and understands how our beliefs, life experiences, and values shape the healing process.

Outside the therapy room, Anthony is a proud husband and father, a lifelong learner, and someone who finds beauty in music, language, and meaning-making in all its forms.

Anthony’s approach is thoughtful, philosophical, and rooted in hope. If you’re feeling lost or weighed down, he’s here to help you find your way forward, with honesty, compassion, and purpose.

🔹 Anthony is currently accepting new clients. You can book a session through the link in our bio!

05/15/2025

“What type of therapy is right for me?”

It’s one of the most common questions we hear, and a really important one. With so many therapeutic approaches out there, it can feel overwhelming to know where to start.

At Hope Centered Counselling, our team uses a variety of evidence-based modalities, each tailored to your unique needs. Whether you prefer structure and tools, deep emotional processing, or body-based healing, there’s an approach that can support your journey.

Swipe through to explore some of the therapeutic approaches we offer and get a feel for what might resonate with you. 🌿

👉 Ready to begin your healing journey? Click the link in our bio to book with one of our therapists today.

05/06/2025

From stress relief to soul-searching, or just getting lost in a great story, books, podcasts and stories have this amazing way of meeting us where we’re at.

We asked our counsellors to share a book or podcast that they've found to be meaningful, inspiring, or just simply enjoyable!

Swipe through to see what’s been on our shelves (and in our earbuds). 🎧💛

👉 Got a favourite book or podcast that’s left a mark on you? Share it with us in the comments, we’re always up for a good recommendation.

04/30/2025

🌿 Counsellor Highlight: Meet Kelsey! 🎨

Creativity has the power to unlock emotions, foster healing, and help us navigate life’s challenges. As a Registered Psychotherapist and Art Therapist, Kelsey blends talk therapy and art for clients that want to explore their creative sides to support self-expression, reflection, and growth.

In Art Therapy, you don’t need to be an artist to benefit from art therapy. It’s not about making “good” art, but about exploring your emotions in a way that feels right for you. Whether you're processing grief, navigating identity struggles, managing anxiety or depression, or adjusting to life transitions, Kelsey creates a safe, inclusive space to explore your story.

Her approach is feminist and LGBTQ+ affirmative, recognizing that mental health is shaped by both personal experience and the world around us. She incorporates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and the Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC), allowing therapy to be deeply individualized. Some days focus on conversation, others on creative techniques or grounding exercises.

Outside of therapy, Kelsey finds joy in nature, cooking, creating art, and spending time with her rescue dog, Lexi.

🔹 Kelsey is currently accepting new clients. Book a session through the link in our bio!

04/30/2025

We’re looking for volunteers who want to come out and support our first ever Centre Wellington Pride event. We need approx 30 people to fill various roles listed on the poster, and more. There will be live music, face painting, bubbles, rock painting, mental health booths, education booths, a sensory free tent, vendors and so much more, including our local groovy grilled cheese food truck. It’s going to be an incredibly fun day! 🏳️‍🌈
Scan the QR code to fill out your volunteer application.

04/30/2025

We’re looking for volunteers who want to come out and support our first ever Centre Wellington Pride event. We need approx 30 people to fill various roles listed on the poster, and more. There will be live music, face painting, bubbles, rock painting, mental health booths, education booths, a sensory free tent, vendors and so much more, including our local groovy cheese food truck. It’s going to be an incredibly fun day! 🏳️‍🌈
Scan the QR code to fill out your volunteer application.