HOPE Centered Counselling

09/18/2025

We’re excited to share that Hope Centered Counselling is taking part in Habitat for Humanity’s Women’s Build Day this October! 👷‍♀️
This special event brings women together to build safe, affordable homes for families in our community. 🏡💛 As a business, we’ve already donated $100 to kickstart our fundraising, but we need to raise at least $300 to take part — and our hope is to go above and beyond that goal.
✨ Here’s how you can help:
Donate directly through our fundraising link https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/fundraising/janeen-weatherhead — every contribution makes a real difference in creating homes and hope right here in Centre Wellington.
Together, we can build something beautiful for families who need it most. Thank you for supporting our community! 💪💙

09/14/2025

Parents & caregivers, this one’s for you 💛 The ND Circle with Janeen is starting in October, and the full year’s schedule is now posted so you can see the topics we’ll be covering at each biweekly drop-in group.
Each evening we’ll dig into a different theme around parenting and supporting neurodivergent kids, youth, and young adults. It’s a space to connect, learn, and breathe a little easier knowing you’re not doing this alone.
There are only 10 spots each night, so if you see a topic that speaks to you, go ahead and reserve your spot here: 👉 https://hopecenteredcounselling.ca/therapy-groups-workshops-fergus-elora/
Big thanks to and .ca for helping spread the word 🫶

08/28/2025

✨ Meet Elizabeth ✨
Elizabeth is a Level 2 Gottman-trained couples therapist who loves helping partners build stronger connections—especially when one or both are neurodivergent.

She’s also leading Navigating the Political Landscape on Sept 17th—a group for q***r folks to come together, share experiences, and find support in today’s challenging political climate.

💬 Reach out to learn more or to join the group.

08/25/2025

✨ Meet Ali ✨
We’re so excited to welcome Ali Darling RP (Qualifying) to our team! 💛
Ali is passionate about supporting people through the vulnerable, messy, and empowering parts of life. She works with folks navigating grief, loss, identity, relationships, self-esteem, sexuality, and intimacy. Her approach is warm, collaborative, and client-centred—offering a safe, affirming space where you can bring all the messy, complicated parts of yourself and lay them down without apology.
Ali is a neuro-affirming and q***r-affirming therapist who works from an intersectional lens, recognizing the broader contexts of race, gender, and culture. She draws from ACT, CBT, DBT, EFT, and somatic techniques—always tailoring therapy to fit you, not the other way around.
Outside of session, Ali loves painting, music, gardening, and cooking, and is happiest spending cozy nights at home with loved ones, board games, or a good movie. 🎨🌿🎶
We’re thrilled to have Ali on our team and can’t wait for you to meet her!
💌 Book a free consultation with Ali through the link in our bio.

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.