Counsellors

Priscilla Healey holds a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Victoria and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. She has a strong background in interpersonal relationships and trauma and takes a biopsychosocial approach. Through a Trauma-informed lens, she uses different modalities including Trauma-Focused - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, and Play and Art based approaches. She embraces a neuro-affirming strengths-based perspective and offers in-person (Penticton and Summerland), online, and telephone counselling for children, youth, families, and individuals. She has a certified Therapy Rabbit. BCACC RCC #19592.

Erica Markus-Pawliuk holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. She believes the foundation to counselling is a strong and collaborative relationship. She has been working with people who have experienced trauma since 2000. She integrates a variety of therapeutic approaches to her practice including Emotional Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Gottman Therapy, Mindfulness, and EMDR. She has a special interest in working with couples and believes relationships have the potential to grow and improve. BCACC RCC #18777.

Christine Schwarz a registered Social Worker with the British Columbia College of Social Workers (#10502), which may enable you to access funding for our sessions. She has a Bachelor’s degree from McGill University and Master's degree from the University of British Columbia - Okanagan. She immigrated from Austria to Canada about 20 years ago and is passionate about supporting individuals to enhance their quality of life through counselling. She works with a variety of issues, and over the past 8 years, she has specialized in the field of sexual trauma counselling (both historic and recent), supporting individuals living with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She has training in KinSHIFT Training: Elements of Truth: Before Reconciliation, DBT Skills Training, ASIST Suicide Prevention Training, Child Sexual Abuse and Complex Trauma Graduate Certificate (JIBC), and Sand Tray Therapy.