Family & Life Transitions
Major life changes, family conflicts or grief can feel confusing and heavy for young children. Wendi helps children navigate transitions such as separation, divorce or loss while maintaining emotional safety and stability.
Children are supported in understanding and expressing their feelings, building resilience, and developing healthy coping skills. Parents are included as partners, receiving guidance to help children feel grounded, connected, and supported at home and beyond.
Emotional & Trauma Support
Children often struggle to make sense of overwhelming emotions, stress, or difficult experiences.
Wendi provides a safe, supportive environment where children can express feelings, process trauma and develop emotional regulation skills. Through gentle, age-appropriate approaches, children learn to build coping strategies and increase resilience. Every session is tailored to their pace, needs, and comfort.
School, Anxiety & Neurodiversity Support
Many children face challenges at school, including anxiety, attention difficulties, or feeling different from their peers.
Wendi helps children understand their unique strengths, manage worries, and develop practical coping and problem-solving skills. Every child receives personalized guidance to build confidence, improve focus, and feel more capable both in the classroom and at home while also learning strategies to navigate challenges calmly and successfully.
Guidance for learning, emotional resilience, and healthy relationships at home and school
Nurturing Every Child’s Potential
About Wendi
Creating safe, meaningful support for children and families
With nearly 30 years of experience supporting children in schools and in the community, Wendi understands how deeply stress, anxiety, and life changes can affect a child’s wellbeing. As a former classroom teacher turned Registered Clinical Counsellor, she blends practical insight with compassionate, attachment-focused support to help children feel grounded, capable and heard.
Therapies & Approaches
As a parent, it’s hard to watch your child struggle. You want to help, but family changes, emotions, school stress, or learning differences can leave you feeling unsure of what to do next. Wendi partners with both you and your child, offering steady guidance, clear communication and practical strategies tailored for child.
Not sure which approach your child needs? Let’s talk — I’m here to help.
Play Therapy
Healing through play
Play therapy uses games, toys, and creative activities to help children express feelings, process experiences, and work through challenges in a natural, child-friendly way.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Building secure connections
This approach focuses on strengthening healthy attachments, helping children feel safe, understood, and supported in their relationships with parents and caregivers.
Sandplay
Expressing emotions visually
Using sand and miniature figures, children create scenes that reflect their thoughts. This visual, hands-on approach supports insight, emotional processing, and problem-solving to draw out emotions without using words.
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Sensitive support for difficult experiences
Trauma-informed care ensures children feel safe while exploring and processing past experiences, building coping skills, and regaining emotional balance.
Somatic Practices
Finding practical solutions
This goal-oriented approach helps children identify challenges, focus on strengths, and develop practical strategies to overcome obstacles and build confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Understanding thoughts and feelings
CBT helps children identify unhelpful thought patterns, manage emotions, and develop skills to respond to challenges in healthier ways.
Grief Counselling
Processing loss with care
Counselling provides a safe space for children to express grief, understand their emotions, and find ways to cope with loss in a supportive environment.
Strength-Based Therapy
Building on what’s strong
This approach focuses on each child’s abilities, talents, and resilience, encouraging growth, self-confidence, and positive coping strategies.
School Anxiety
Wendi has been exceptional support for our gender-diverse child, offering a safe, affirming space. She offered many practical strategies that truly eased our son's social anxiety about school.
Much of his worry stemmed from feeling different among peers, and Wendi helped him navigate those moments with increasing confidence; her warmth, skill, and insight have helped him build real resilience. We are incredibly grateful for the positive impact she has had on his school success.
~Shawn
Diverse Needs
Wendi is an exceptional counsellor whose adaptability and professional judgment allows her to support a wide range of student needs'.
She skillfully tailors her approach, techniques, and strategies to each learner, helping them navigate and overcome diverse challenges. Her compassion and flexibility make her an invaluable member of our school team.
~Melissa
Growing Confidence
Working with Wendi made all the difference for our son. He immediately felt safe and understood, which helped him open up and be able to learn how to manage his emotions.
His confidence has grown, and he’s genuinely happier. As parents, we felt supported every step of the way. Counselling was truly worth it—our family feels stronger.
~Lindsey
The First Step
If you’re wondering whether support could help, reaching out is a simple place to start.
