SSC

Second Story Counselling

Practical and personalized counselling that works for you.

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Expressive Arts

How can counselling help?

I wanted to let you know how grateful I am for the guidance you had for me. You helped me focus in on what was important to me and how to orient myself toward those things…there’s no way I would have ended up in the life I have right now, living within my values in service of my goals, if we hadn’t done that work together.

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My counselling style is collaborative, client-centred, solution-focused, and practical. I believe that a non-judmental and non-pathologizing framework creates a safe space for reflection, discovery, and change. My core values are compassion, genuineness, and respect for all people. Within this context of practice and values, creating solutions and regaining hope for a preferred future becomes possible.

Shari Allen, MC, RCC, CCC

For the past 20 years, I have worked for individuals and couples with diverse problems and challenges related to depression and anxiety, relationships, anxiety, depression, identity, grief and loss, and trauma. I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a Certified Canadian Counsellor, with Advanced Narrative Therapy training and a post-graduate certificate in trauma therapy. I am an approved service provider for ICBC, the Nisga’a Nation and the First Nations Health Authority.