As the owner and operator of Valhalla Visions Counselling Clinic, Natalie wishes for everyone to have a soft landing when coming for counselling therapy. As of 2024, she’s accumulated over 20 years of both studied and applied psychology formally and informally, and has tallied 15 years work experience in various mental health capacities. She also personally understands trauma and life adversities in many areas with a lifetime of experience.

She is an insured Licensed Counselling Therapist – Candidate with the College of Counselling Therapists of New Brunswick (CCTNB), and a Canadian Certified Counsellor in good standing with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). She also obtained her Masters in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University, a graduate certificate in Mental Health Psychology from the University of Liverpool in England, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UNBSJ.

Natalie is a trauma-informed clinician who delivers a unique “coffee style chat” in session(s), and hosts a comfortable environment unique to other clinics or perhaps other independent practices. She has a friendly and compassionate Newfoundlander/Acadian heritage (no accent) and does not tell her clients what to do. Natalie also encourages her clientele to advocate for themselves, work toward developing any and all healthy living value system(s), and contribute to setting the pace of the session.

She is a very active and regular participant in her clienteles’ overall health and case management including: medication(s) updates including consistency and motivation levels taking them, navigating various sleep hygiene patterns, various physical movement and chronic pain influences, follow ups on other appointments, and locating resources and additional options. Natalie is also incredibly dedicated to strong, and consented collaboration with other professionals to provide exceptional care. She is likewise mindful of a client’s attachment style and creates therapeutic rapport based on this.

Natalie aims to adjust sessions to the personal comfort, space, and trust level(s) of every individual coming to see her. She also navigates how clients may vary from session to session with how they feel when they arrive. Navigation is sometimes needed based on the person’s memory and retention levels, dissociation, learning style(s), personality and how they think overall.

She also offers various tones of voice, approaches and methods to help regulate, calm, empower and motivate you. As she gets to know her clients, she values and explores to connect with their personality. Natalie also regularly encourages clients for feedback.

She is passionate about serving military veterans, first responders, various front-line medical and educational professionals, youth, and those who have been involved with or are experiencing interpersonal violence. Natalie also believes healing communities full circle and has experience working with those who’ve been in conflict with the law. She’s not a veteran, but has been around and affiliated with the military community in various local, national and international capacities since 1998, and worked under the umbrella of corrections and mental health as a frontline worker for 13 years. Her patience, mediation and interpersonal skills comes from extensive work experience and training, and a history of defusing hostile and sometimes violent situations in residential care.

She has an extended employment background, and a bedside manner otherwise with care giving and hosting others including: cleaning hospitals and clinics, providing personal care, grooming, feeding, physical support and assistance for elderly patients, working with those who have intellectual disabilities, youth in and out of foster care/group homes, and was an in-home care provider through the Alternative Family Living Arrangement program.

She’s a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist through Arizona Trauma Institute International, and offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Narrative Exposure Therapy, weaves in elements of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) into sessions, and talk therapy methods when suitable and appropriate for trauma clientele.

Accountable clients who are curious yet ready, motivated, and are self-reflective work best with Natalie. She also wants and encourages clients to show up as themselves.

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