Practice information:

Our identities are always in a process of becoming and our circumstances changing. We are here to listen deeply and respectfully cultivate a rich and purposeful way forward with you.

Through genuine concern, commitment to equality, acknowledgment, and appreciation of differences we will honour your unique situation. Developing optimal and greater quality of life, by imagining future possibilities and creating possible futures.

We are a divergent-affirming practice and our philosophy is rooted in narrative, queer, critical disability, and feminist theories. We are committed to having an inclusive space founded upon therapeutically ethical relationships that embrace the unique knowledge necessary to co-construct alternative stories.

We respect you as the expert on your own life and reality and separate the problem (shame, anger, hopelessness) from the person (you). We connect with values, and hopes (peace, freedom, vibrancy), and a multiplicity of stories begin to emerge.

We will explore ways to outsmart and move beyond the tactics of the “what if’s”, worry, overthinking, no motivation, and anxiety. Through respectful and compassionate curiosity we will promote unique experiences and untold histories.

Arches Counselling is here to hold space for the difficult moments and to engage in a collaborative process of gaining essential insight and begin your life, re-imagined.