Emmalee Brunt

Emmalee offers in person counselling in Victoria, BC, as well as phone and online video counselling sessions for clients across British Columbia. She works with individuals (16+), couples, and families (where all participants are 16+). She welcomes clients from all gender identities, sexual orientations, spiritual affiliations and races.

Emmalee operates from a client-centered approach, meaning she works collaboratively with each person to explore their individual goals, challenges and strengths. Each session is tailored to the client's specific needs to offer tangible and realistic change strategies. Emmalee helps clients learn techniques to reduce distress, regulate emotions, navigate life transitions and improve communication. 

She provides counselling services for people seeking support with relationships, intimacy, family dynamics, parenting, aging, life transitions, personal identity, critical and terminal illness, and grief and loss. She also helps clients struggling with stress, depression, anxiety, addictions, and sleep problems. She has focused training in trauma-informed therapy and operates from a culturally-sensitive and inclusive lens.  

Emmalee offers counselling therapy using a multi-faceted approach, including internal family systems therapy (IFS), somatic attachment therapy, trauma therapy, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Emmalee completed a two year Somatic Attachment Therapist training program through Bring the Body Into Practice, and she uses somatic attachment psychotherapy, a relational, somatic and attachment focused orientation, to support clients who have experienced trauma. She is certified through the International Association of Therapists as an Internal Family Systems-informed provider. 

Emmalee has 11 years of experience providing support, resources and counselling for adults, families, children and youth in the Greater Victoria area. She graduated from the Master of Counselling program at City University is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors.

Please note: emails/messages sent to Emmalee through the CounsellingBC.com website are forwarded to the confidential inbox of the Clinical Director of Gravitate Counselling Inc., who can answer your questions and/or help you book your first appointment with Emmalee.