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Where you can be YOU, in all your kooky, messy, beautiful glory 🤎
🛋️ Counselling in Nelson & online across Canada 🇨🇦
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www.theloungeroomcounselling.com

04/17/2026

Can’t help you with that Bieber fever though sorry 🥲

04/17/2026

You know that moment you catch your reflection in a shop window and your brain immediately goes full critical judgement on your appearance? Bleh.

Here’s the thing: that feeling isn’t just you being “brutally honest with yourself.” It could be that you’ve split yourself into two people: there’s the actual you trying to live your life, and then there’s this inner critic who’s running 24/7 surveillance on your appearance like it’s their full-time job.

I see this constantly with clients here in Nelson and across BC, and I’ve experienced it myself (more times than I’d like to admit). This pattern pulls you out of just existing in your body and shoves you into a state of constantly performing for an imaginary audience that never takes a breather.

So this non-stop self-monitoring creates massive shame and makes how you actually feel inside seem completely irrelevant. Your reflection isn’t the problem, YOU are not the problem. The problem is that you’ve started judging yourself through someone else’s imaginary eyes instead of your own. 🤷‍♀️

In my counselling sessions, we work to break this pattern apart. And here’s the good part: the main tool is stupidly simple. I give you explicit permission to stop performing. My job is to consistently create a space where you can show up exactly as you are. Messy, hilarious, chaotic, wearing the same sweatpants for three days… it’s all welcome here.

When you receive that permission again and again, the volume gets turned down on the imaginary audience you’ve been performing for. You get to reclaim what it feels like to be you. The shame spirals don’t have a critic to perform for anymore, and your worth is no longer tangled up in how you look. You just get to exist again. ✨

🤎 Follow for more real-talk ways to get back to just living.

04/09/2026

Everyone say thank you to Joanna for keeping me grounded!! 🤪🌶️

04/08/2026

Finding my calm 💁‍♀️

03/27/2026

Stop trying to control the weather and start bringing a jacket ☁️

03/25/2026

True story

03/21/2026

my run said “conversational pace” so now you get therapy thoughts

03/20/2026

They said be professional.. I said be real 😇

03/20/2026

No further explanation needed 💁‍♀️

03/19/2026

The duality of being a therapist lol

03/19/2026

You know that moment when someone at a dinner party casually asks, “So, what do you do?” and your brain just... fully panics? Like, completely short-circuits? 😵‍💫

Yeahhhh, I’ve been there! Here’s the thing: researchers found that up to 40% of professionals feel this exact same brain-glitch during a career change. And here’s what’s actually going on - for years, maybe decades, your brain got really good at answering “who am I?” with your job title. Super efficient. But then that title disappeared, and now your brain is standing there like “uhhhhh...” because it literally doesn’t have an answer anymore. 🤯

You know what helps in these situations?? You guessed it… therapy! The real, back-and-forth conversation with another human. That’s exactly what we do in our 1-1 counselling sessions - available in-person here in Nelson, BC or online anywhere across Canada.

These conversations help you piece together who you are by using your own life stories - not just the jobs listed on your LinkedIn profile. We dig into all the parts of you that existed way before this job, and still exist right now. We figure out how to make your professional story just one piece of your identity, instead of the whole thing. ✨

03/18/2026

Nothing a lil therapy can’t help 😎

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Suite 208, 402 Baker Street
Nelson, BC
V1L4H8

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Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 5pm

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