good things take time to grow.
Joyful Living is growing a list of specialized services for you, your relationships, your family, and your community.
Supportive Individual Counselling
Joyful Living services are rooted in strengths-based, trauma-informed, feminist, humanistic, anti-oppressive, somatic and embodiment practices, and systems theories.
Supportive Counselling sessions are client-centered and provide a safe space to explore and heal. Applying social work ethics and standards of practice, Supportive Counselling can offer new ways to understand lifes day-to-day stresses, challenges, successes, and beauty. Session focuses may include relationships and intimacy, trauma processing, navigating attachment, sexual healing, communication skill development, emotions and sensations, desire expression, acceptance, anxiety, and reconnecting to self. Joyful Living believes in challenging status-quo and engrained beliefs and stereotypes while creating space for new insight and experiences.
50-Minute Session $150
Supportive Relationship Counselling
Relationship Counselling is a space to grow, connect, and move forward—together or apart. Sessions at Joyful Living support communication, intimacy, self-awareness, disconnection vs. reconnection, desire expression, and deepening relationships at all stages.
Grounded in attachment theory and informed by Gottman Method principles, sessions explore how we relate, manage conflict, repair ruptures, and build emotional safety. We slow things down, notice patterns, and create space for intentional, values-aligned connection.
Relationship counselling is for all types of relationships: intimate partners, friendships, family systems, parent/child dynamics, and couples navigating separation or divorce.
An initial 90-minute intake session is required. Additional 90-minute sessions may be offered based on the needs of the relationship and in collaboration with the social worker.
50-Minute Session $200
90-Minute Sessions Available
More Time. More Depth. More Space to Heal.
At Joyful Living Counselling, we understand that meaningful growth and healing often require more than a standard hour. Our 90-minute sessions are designed to provide the spaciousness needed for deeper exploration, greater integration, and a stronger therapeutic connection.
Why Choose a 90-Minute Session?
Unhurried Exploration
Longer sessions allow us to slow down and really get to the heart of what matters most to you. With more time, there’s room to fully explore your experiences without feeling rushed or cut short.
Stronger Therapeutic Relationship
The extended time creates space to build a deeper, more attuned connection. This is especially supportive for clients navigating complex emotions, trauma work, or longer-term healing goals.
Schedule-Friendly and Flexible
For clients who prefer less frequent sessions or have fuller schedules, 90-minute sessions offer the flexibility to dive deep while maintaining momentum between appointments.
Holistic, Comprehensive Support
Whether you’re moving through grief, processing trauma, or working through relational patterns, the additional time allows us to tend to the layers of your experience more fully.
Important Note on 90-Minute Sessions
Because each person’s therapeutic needs are unique, 90-minute sessions are offered by mutual agreement only. If you’re interested in exploring this option, we’ll first discuss together whether an extended format feels appropriate and supportive for your goals. This ensures that your experience is aligned with your capacity, readiness, and the focus of our work together.
90-Minute Individual Counselling Session $210
90-Minute Relationship Counselling Session $240
Fee Information
Joyful Living is committed to providing high-quality, compassionate care while continually growing expertise through advanced trianing, education, and resources. Part of this commitment to sustainability includes an annual review and adjustment to fees to reflect the rising economy, ongoing professional development, and evolving community and client needs.
This annual adjustment occurs June 1st each year and ensures the maintenance of the highest standard of social work practice.
Supportive Services Reviews
”Working with Heather has given me a safe space that is focused on me. There is complete trust, and I can unload in a non-judgemental, supportive environment.
”Joyful Living counselling came into my life exactly when I needed it most. I am grateful for who Heather is and how she handles our sessions through wisdom, experience, support, and space. She has pushed me and supported me at the same time, making all my experiences safe for me. I recommend her weekly to people I know because everyone can benefit from this type of support!
”Heather has been wonderful to work with. She is real, calm, collected, and open to allowing a session to go in any direction and providing support throughout. There is so much knowledge to gain and I can use what I learn in my personal and professional life.
”I gained the ability to sit with my experiences, and be able to accept my feelings and reactions as valid and true. This helps me step back and look at what's my own stuff versus what is others.
”I have enjoyed working with Heather; she is very compassionate and supportive. She understands the agricultural world and working with a multigenerational farm family.
”I have learned to be more vocal, if I don't say what I need or think, change won't happen. I am challenged to move through the discomfort.
”I've learned to slow down, respond rather than react.