Eclipse Counselling Therapy
Patricia offers a compassionate, trauma-informed counselling approach for individuals navigating chronic pain, chronic illness, disability, caregiving, grief, anxiety, and major life transitions. Her understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is informed by both her counselling work and her lived experience as a parent and advocate. She recognizes that chronic health conditions affect not only the body, but also identity, relationships, autonomy, family life, and a person’s sense of safety and hope.
Her integrative approach draws from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Through IFS, clients can explore protective, critical, fearful, and grieving parts of themselves with greater curiosity and compassion. ACT supports clients in making room for difficult experiences while reconnecting with their values and pursuing meaningful action. When appropriate, EMDR is used to address traumatic memories, medical trauma, distressing beliefs, and experiences that continue to activate the nervous system.
In working with chronic pain, Patricia takes a non-pathologizing and disability-affirming approach. She does not treat pain as imagined or assume that regulation practices will eliminate physical symptoms. Instead, counselling focuses on reducing the additional burden created by fear, shame, self-criticism, isolation, and ongoing nervous-system activation. Sessions may incorporate mindfulness, nervous-system education, breathwork, gentle movement, and body-based awareness, always adapted to the client’s capacity, access needs, and preferences.
Patricia believes that healing with chronic illness is rarely linear. Her goal is to create a collaborative space where clients feel heard, respected, and supported in developing greater emotional regulation, self-trust, flexibility, and connection to what gives their lives meaning.
Individual Counselling
A supportive, collaborative space to explore anxiety, trauma, grief, chronic pain, chronic illness, caregiving, relationship concerns, and major life transitions. Sessions are adapted to your needs and may draw from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), EMDR, mindfulness, and nervous-system regulation. The focus is on strengthening self-understanding, emotional flexibility, and the capacity to move through life with greater choice and self-trust.
Couples and Family Counselling
Counselling for couples and families seeking greater understanding, safety, and connection in their relationships. Sessions help identify recurring patterns, clarify underlying emotions and needs, strengthen communication, and develop practical approaches to conflict and repair. Particular attention is given to how attachment experiences, trauma, caregiving, chronic illness, and changing family roles can shape relationship dynamics.
Support Groups
Facilitated groups offering education, shared reflection, practical strategies, and connection with others navigating similar experiences. Groups may focus on chronic pain, chronic illness, caregiving, anxiety, grief, emotional regulation, or nervous-system support. Participation is invitational, and members are never required to disclose more than feels comfortable. Groups aim to reduce isolation while supporting self-compassion, resilience, and a sense of belonging.
Experiential Body-Based Sessions
Customized sessions that draw from a range of mindfulness and body-based practices, including Tai Chi, Qigong, yoga, meditation, breath awareness, sensory regulation, and gentle approaches intended to support vagal regulation. Practices are selected and adapted according to each individual’s goals, capacity, mobility, pain, fatigue, and sensory needs.
When appropriate, sessions may include opportunities to measure heart-rate variability (HRV) as a form of biofeedback. HRV information can help participants observe how their heart rhythm changes in response to breathing, movement, attention, and recovery practices. It is used as one source of information—not as a diagnosis, measure of personal success, or complete assessment of nervous-system health. All activities are invitational and can be modified, paused, or declined.