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Individual Counselling Therapy

Counselling is a collaborative and supportive process that can assist you in making desired changes in your life. Through counselling, you may wish to explore aspects of yourself or your past experience, consider potential solutions to challenges, articulate goals and find methods of achieving them, and/or gain skills for better self-regulation and interpersonal communication.

Therapeutic Sound

This 60-minute, personalized therapeutic sound session is designed to support nervous system balance and renewal. It is especially beneficial for individuals coping with burnout, recovering from stress, experiencing significant life changes or transitions, or seeking to deepen resiliency through self-connection and attunement. What to Expect: The 60-minute session begins with a collaborati... Read More

This 60-minute, personalized therapeutic sound session is designed to support nervous system balance and renewal. It is especially beneficial for individuals coping with burnout, recovering from stress, experiencing significant life changes or transitions, or seeking to deepen resiliency through self-connection and attunement.

What to Expect:
The 60-minute session begins with a collaborative intake and intention-setting, then transitions into a 45-minute immersive sound experience with singing bowls and other resonant instruments. Supportive guided meditation and breathwork prompts are integrated throughout, and the session closes with time for debriefing and reflection.

What this session is not:
While this practice is trauma-informed, it is not meant to serve as counselling or coaching. Instead, it provides a mindful, restorative experience that supports a holistic approach to healing and wellness. It acts as a complementary therapy and can benefit those currently engaged in psychedelic integration, somatic experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), or other trauma recovery methods.

The Benefits of Sound
Research across neuroscience, psychophysiology, and mindfulness practices suggests that sound-based therapeutic experiences can:
• Support nervous system regulation by helping shift the body from stress states into calmer, more restorative ones.
• Reduce physical and mental tension, promoting ease, softness, and down-regulation in the body.
• Encourage emotional balance by gently supporting the settling and integration of overwhelming or activated states.
• Increase heart rate variability (HRV) — an indicator of parasympathetic (rest-and-restore) activation and resilience.
• Invite meditative and restorative states through slow rhythms and sustained tonal vibration that support alpha–theta brainwave activity.
• Enhance interoceptive awareness — the ability to feel and respond to internal signals of safety, rest, and connection.
• Strengthen self-regulation over time, especially when experienced as an ongoing practice rather than a one-time intervention.

Chantel Laforet
(She/Her/Hers) RTC #3925, RPC-C/MPCC-Provisional #4476

Are you struggling with feelings of anxiety, grief, or anger? Does it sometimes seem like a war within yourself, experiencing conflicting thoughts and feelings? Have you been to talk therapy before and found that how you see things may have broadened or changed but how you feel hasn’t completely shifted? Are you currently overwhelmed by life or generally unsatisfied and you’re not sure why? Or maybe you know exactly what’s challenging you yet the options for change or skills to process it seem elusive or unattainable?

You long to find an off-ramp to a cycle you feel stuck in. You are looking for more ease, balance, and joy. You want to see more choices, options, and possibilities ahead. You desire to feel seen and known, and crave a deeper understanding of yourself and others. Together we will explore thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and somatic symptoms that may be creating barriers to achieving your goals and experiencing a fulfilling quality of life.

I have 10 years experience in the personal growth realm (Excellence Seminars & The Haven) and have completed a 13+ month counselling practicum internship with Dragonstone Counselling in Vancouver. Participants and clients supported have been aged 19 to 86, from various cultural backgrounds, and diverse lifestyles. I am passionate about helping others identify what they value most, connecting with their bodies, and rediscovering their personal power through a combination of narrative and experiential techniques.

Are you struggling with feelings of anxiety, grief, or anger? Does it sometimes seem like a war w... Read More

Faye Mallett CMT-P 159392736, Therapeutic Sound Practitioner

Faye is a therapeutic sound practitioner who combines live instruments with supportive guidance to promote relief and recovery from the physical, mental, and emotional stressors of life. With years of experience and training in restorative sound and mindfulness practices, she offers sessions designed to support nervous system regulation, enhance resilience, and nurture embodied connection.

Faye is a practitioner member of the International Sound Therapy Association (ISTA) and holds the Professional Level Mindfulness Teacher (CMT-P) certification from the International Mindfulness Teachers Association (IMTA). She received training in sound therapy from the Institute of Traditional Medicine (ITM) and is certified in mindfulness teaching through the Lab of Meditation’s 200-hour teacher training program.

Faye is a therapeutic sound practitioner who combines live instruments with supportive guidance t... Read More

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Aestra | Suite 917 - Downtown Vancouver
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