Lupine Clinical Counselling

03/12/2025

Lupine Clinical Counselling is excited to share that you can now download Jane’s Mobile App for Clients. Add clinics to the app that you have visited before, manage and rebook appointments with your clinics using one central login. Download the app for Android or Apple devices.

When you open the app you’ll see a brief mag about creating your app account. Click the toggle below the msg once you’ve read it and then click the “set up my new sign in”. You’ll need to create a new email and password combination just for this app. Once set up just enter Lupine Clinical Counselling into “Add an Account” and you’ll be all set!

02/11/2025

Lupine Clinical Counselling is offering another Post Partum Mental Health Group March 6, 13, 27 and April 3, 2025. Sessions are $50 (must register for all 4 sessions and you will be billed weekly). Group will be facilitated by Vanessa Dowell MSW, RSW and services covered by most group insurance. No children will be present in group. Please email to discuss an intake, register for group and/or speak with a past group participant.

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Lupine Clinical Counselling ! Our office will be closed from December 23-January 2 . We look forward to working with you in 2025! While we are closed please head to our website and book appointments directly through Jane. Wishing you rest, peace and joy during the holiday season.

12/22/2024

Lupine Clinical Counselling is offering another Post Partum Mental Health Group January 23, 30, February 6 and 13, 2025. 3:30-5:00pm. Sessions are $50 (must register for all 4 sessions and you will be billed weekly). Group is co-facilitated by Vanessa Dowell MSW, RSW and Joanna Talecka MCAP, RCC (services covered by most insurance). No children will be present in group (please email to discuss). Please email information@lupineclinicalcounselling.com register for group.

We are a counselling practice in the West Kootenays supporting individuals and young families towards the hope, healing, connection and growth, which is within each of us, our families and communities.

11/14/2024

Post Partum Support Group Lupine Clinical Counselling Lupine

When: December 12 and 19, 2024 and January 9 and 16, 2025
Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Cost: $50 a session (must register for all 4 sessions for a total of $200)

Register: information@lupineclinicalcounselling.com

Group will be co-facilitated by Vanessa Dowell MSW, RSW and Joanna Talecka MCAP, RCC and invoicing will be provided each week. Services will be covered by most Extended Health Plans.

No children will be present in group

If you are in the West Kootenays we would love for you to share with Momma and Perinatal contacts! We plan to run this as a ongoing offering at Lupine Clinical Counselling

10/23/2024

At Lupine Clinical Counselling all of our counsellors are trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART).

This psychotherapy uses eye movements to help quickly alleviate symptoms, which are often related to past trauma. The bilateral eye movements help move those traumatic memories into long-term memory. Visualizations and somatic processing inspire positive emotion.

With ART you don't have to visualize distressing images related to trauma outside the session, the treatment is generally brief, and most of our clients find relief quickly!

At Lupine Clinical Counselling we specialize in using ART to work with Reproductive Trauma, Perinatal Mental Health and Birth Trauma.

Please find us through our website to book your free consultation today!

10/19/2024

Welcome!

We hope you follow our page so we can keep you up to date with news from Lupine Clinical Counselling, including new Group offerings and special events here at the practice.

We work with clients experiencing various stressors, grief, trauma, difficult life transitions and inter-personal relationship struggles that are impacting ones mood and functioning.

We are passionate about working with individuals and couples experiencing reproductive health issues and trauma, perinatal mental health struggles, birth trauma and supporting young families through parenting support and supporting the parent-child relationship.

Our counsellors are all masters trained and registered in British Columbia. We have direct billing with most insurance companies.
Lupine Clinical Counselling is accepting new clients.

Please head to our website to book a free 15 minute consultation with one of our counsellors today.

10/17/2024

Lupine Clinical Counselling is excited to announce that Joanna Talecka has joined our team!

Joanna’s approach to counselling is rooted in empathy, compassion, acceptance, insight and empowerment. Through a holistic and client-centered approach Joanna will work with you to develop therapy focus and goals, to help build inner strength, create new self awareness, cultivate positive self-regard, and explore various thoughts and behaviors that may be limiting to one’s overall health and wellbeing. Joanna believes in the value of exploring all pieces of one's story and collaboratively finding effective coping strategies and inner resilience to move through any of life’s challenges.

Before completing her training to become a therapist Joanna has over 15 years working in the social services sector with adults, youth, children and families; most recently 10 years working at Nelson Community Services. Joanna was also previously a DONA certified doula and practiced as a Doula in the Kootenays.

Outside of the counselling realm Joanna raises her two young children alongside her partner on their homestead outside of Nelson. Joanna enjoys spending time with friends and family, gardening, swimming, reading and getting outdoors as much as possible.

To book a free 15 minute consultation with Joanna please head to our website.

10/17/2024

After 3 years in business, Vanessa has recently changed her practice from Vanessa Dowell Counselling to Lupine Clinical Counselling and is excited to be able to continue to support individuals, couples and young families in the West Kootenays!

Vanessa’s theoretical orientation is towards a client-centered, psycho-educational, strength-based approach and her therapeutic approaches are trauma and attachment informed and draw from training in: Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mind-Based Techniques, The Gottman Method and Family Systems Theory. Vanessa is a Master Trained Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and welcomes this evidenced-based eye-movement/somatic therapy as an approach to treating trauma and many other mental health and relational struggles.

Outside of the counselling realm Vanessa is happiest adventuring with her family in nature, on the lake, mountain biking, skiing, in her garden, hiking, playing and watching her kids play sports/dance/act, travelling and is really trying to become a morning person lifting weights at a local gym.

Vanessa currently is accepting clients onto her wait list. Please visit our website to be in touch.