Andras Lenart

Most therapy helps you understand the pattern. This work is built to change it.

You probably already know why you get anxious before the meeting, why criticism makes you withdraw, why you replay the conversation on the drive home. Knowing hasn't stopped it. The reaction is faster than thought. It's built from what you learned early about danger, closeness, and being seen, and you can understand it perfectly and still find yourself inside it.

That gap between what you understand and what keeps happening is where I work.

I'm Andras, a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a background in neuroscience. I use experiential methods: AEDP, Coherence Therapy, IFS, and somatic work. Rather than staying with the story of what happened, we work with what's happening in the room. The emotion as it arrives. The belief as it activates. The way your body braces, pulls back, or goes blank. We slow that down and stay with it long enough for something new to happen.

Sessions are active. We won't spend fifty minutes recapping the week unless the recap is taking us somewhere. I pay attention to where you speed up, make a joke, or move away from what matters, and I'll invite you to stay there. Warmth, but not softness. I care more about your growth than your comfort, and I've found that challenge only works inside a relationship that feels safe enough for honesty. We attend to both.

I work with adults and couples. Many of my clients are people who are good at hard things: founders, physicians, lawyers, other therapists. Many are simply thoughtful adults who have done therapy before, got real insight from it, and hit a plateau. For couples, I draw on the Gottman Method and EFT alongside the same experiential work, because the recurring fight is usually running on attachment patterns neither of you chose.

It's probably not the right fit if you're mainly looking for short-term coping techniques, supportive listening, or crisis stabilization.

In person in Victoria, or online across BC and most of Canada. Evening appointments Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Covered by most extended health plans as an RCC and CCC.

If this sounds like what you've been looking for, tell me briefly what's bringing you in and what you've already tried.