HARBOURING WELLNESS

Discover the power of therapy, a professional avenue for personal growth and emotional well-being. We offer guidance tailored to your individual needs, ensuring a supportive environment for learning, healing and positive change.

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Our Services

Our professional therapy services are designed to cater to individual needs, offering personalized support and guidance in a confidential and compassionate environment. We provide a high standard of care to help you achieve lasting well-being.

Services typically include:
Individual Counselling: Personalized sessions to address emotional, mental, and behavioural challenges, supporting self-awareness, resilience, and personal growth.
Trauma & Stress Support: Techniques such as mindfulness, coping strategies, and trauma-informed care to process and manage past and present stressors.
Behavioural & Emotional Regulation: Support for managing emotions, developing coping strategies, and enhancing overall well-being.
Goal-Oriented Guidance: Collaborative planning to set and achieve personal, professional, or relational goals.
The focus is to empower clients to understand themselves better, develop healthy coping skills, and create meaningful change in their lives. Each session is tailored to meet individual needs, fostering growth, healing, and resilience.
$180/55 min
Services typically include (depending on child's maturity and level of understanding):
Individual Counselling: Personalized sessions to address emotional, mental, and behavioural challenges, supporting self-awareness, resilience, and personal growth.
Trauma & Stress Support: Techniques such as mindfulness, coping strategies, and trauma-informed care to process and manage past and present stressors.
Behavioural & Emotional Regulation: Support for managing emotions, developing coping strategies, and enhancing overall well-being.
Combination of play and talk therapy to establish good therapeutic rapport.
Parent/Guardian meetings as needed
The focus is to empower clients to understand themselves better, develop healthy coping skills, and create meaningful change in their lives. Each session is tailored to meet individual needs, fostering growth, healing, and resilience.
$180/55 min
Using a holistic and functional approach, OTs work with clients to better understand how their symptoms, habits, and daily routines impact their overall well-being and participation in meaningful activities.
Services include (but are not limited to) :
Functional Assessment: Evaluation of current abilities, barriers, and supports across daily life domains, including self-care, productivity, and leisure.
Collaborative Treatment Planning: Goal-setting and individualized intervention plans that align with the client’s values, priorities, and readiness for change.
Activation & Functional Rehabilitation: Structured support to increase engagement in daily routines, improve motivation, and build skills for healthier, more meaningful participation in life activities.
Psychoeducation: Practical education for clients and/or caregivers on mental health, addiction, coping strategies, routine development, and the impact of symptoms on daily functioning.
1:1 Counselling Within OT Scope: Therapeutic conversations and interventions to support emotional regulation, stress management, problem-solving, and improving overall mental wellness.
Skill-Building & Support: Assistance in developing functional skills such as organization, executive functioning, sensory modulation, and healthy lifestyle habits.
OT mental health services aim to help clients reconnect with meaningful roles and routines, build capacity, and regain a sense of control and balance in daily life—while supporting long-term recovery and improved quality of life.
The focus is to empower clients to understand themselves better, develop healthy coping skills, and create meaningful change in their lives.
Each session is tailored to meet individual needs, fostering growth, healing, and resilience.
Please note: I do not provide home safety assessments, paediatric OT, or complex physical rehabilitation services.
$180/55 min

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About Harbouring Wellness

Located in the heart of Bouctouche, NB, we offer virtual and in-person appointments.

The word harbouring reflects what many of us need but rarely receive: a steady place to land. A place where your nervous system can settle, your thoughts can slow down, and your experiences are understood without judgment.

Valerie’s approach integrates neuroscience, practical strategies, and compassionate reflection…helping you understand not just what is happening, but why.

Whether you are…

A teen navigating anxiety, attention deficits, or identity challenges
A parent who loves deeply but feels constantly overstimulated
An adult managing ADHD, burnout, or emotional exhaustion
Someone feeling stuck between responsibility and depletion

Our work together focuses on restoring regulation, clarity, and sustainable improvements.

We believe therapy should feel collaborative, grounded, and useful. We will explore your strengths, try to better understand your stress responses, and build tools that support your real life — not an idealized version of it.

Harbouring Wellness is committed to culturally responsive, trauma informed care. Creating safe and respectful spaces for all is foundational to this work.

You do not need to be in crisis to begin therapy. You simply need to be ready for something to feel different.

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