Welcome!
If you are feeling ready to change, I’m ready to help!
At Cedar Circle Counselling I build strong, supportive relationships with my clients to create a space in which they feel safe, genuinely accepted, carefully listened to, and compassionately challenged to move towards healing and growth. - Deanna Dumont VanWoudenberg
Deanna VanWoudenberg, Clinical Counsellor
I’m so glad you are here!
I believe everyone I work with is deeply worthy of love and acceptance, and that they have their own individual gifts and purpose they are meant to share with the world.
As a Registered Clinical counsellor, I use a person-centred approach to my therapeutic work to assist a range of clients from children to adults to move through difficult and painful challenges in their lives and towards healing and wholeness.
I have deep respect for the courage and strength it takes to come to counselling, and I serve each person who arrives with warm empathy, intuitive listening, and gentle, tailored-to-them support. I’ll work with you to help you create the positive changes you long for and that I absolutely and always believe are possible.
How I can help
I always tailor therapy to the needs, strengths, and goals of each individual client, and I enjoy integrating art when it happens to suit them. I am also trained in EMDR, an efficient and very effective trauma processing therapy.
In practice I work with people of all ages experiencing:
Anxiety
Depression
Trauma
Early Relational Trauma
Life Transitions
Stress / Overwhelm
Parenting Challenges
When considering therapy, you may be experiencing emotional pain, struggles in your relationships, mood disruptions such as anxiety or depression, intense stress, or trauma.
You may find yourself repeating unhelpful patterns that make you feel stuck, stressed, or worried, and you fear you’ll never be able to change. There could be difficult past experiences and memories that seem to be intruding into your present life and relationships.
If so, you may be ready to work with someone who can support you in overcoming the things that feel overwhelming, and hold you back from the life you deserve. It would be my honour to accompany and guide you at your pace on a journey towards healing and wholeness.
I have a special interest in working with children who experience anxiety and depression or have experienced unexpected trauma. I support them to heal and enjoy their lives without being held back by any concern.
I also encourage and support their parents who may feel uncertain how to help their child and may wonder deep down if it is somehow their fault their child is struggling. I’m a parent too, and I know it can be tough! I believe parents need to be encouraged and equipped without ever being blamed or judged for their child’s struggles.
