Rainey Hopewell, Counsellor in Victoria, V8R 2J7

Rainey Hopewell, M.Ed., C.C.C., C.C.Ht.

Profession(s):
Counselling, Psychotherapy
License Status:
I'm a certified professional.
Primary License:
Certification

My Approach to Helping

I believe that all of life is a "becoming." New learning can replace outgrown scripts and we can move toward wholeness. It is possible to transform our historical pain into strength and wisdom, enabling us to tell new stories of ourselves and our lives. New learning through personal discovery is both the path toward more zestful living, and the destination. The path stretches to the end of our life: it is our life course. Counselling & psychotherapy are two ways of walking part of that path.

I don't perceive you as sick or disordered. I perceive you as someone who has taken care of yourself as best you can, even if some of your historical self-care techniques have also harmed yourself or others. Oak and Fern Healing is a place where your life choices will be respected, even as we work to make the changes you desire.

The bedrock of my approach is encouragement of your capacity to know yourself in all of your parts, and the nurturance of your personal empowerment: the capability to enact your will and self-love in your life, within a framework of respect for others and the Earth.

I'm an holistic, integrative counsellor & psychotherapist, incorporating approaches which focus on emotional cognitive, behavioral, physical, social and spiritual aspects of living: in other words, your whole self.

More Info About My Practice

I offer affordable counselling, psychotherapy, rites of passage and facilitated rituals, in a space which is wheelchair accessible and fragrance-free.

I am certified professionally by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. This means that my credentials are accepted by many extended health care plans.

My View on the Purpose of Psychotherapy

The purpose of psychotherapy is to transform our historical pain & unspeakable fears into compassion, kindness, strength & wisdom.

My View on the Nature of 'Disorders'

I am a non-pathologizing counsellor & psychotherapist. I believe that most of our troubled functioning is caused by unresolved trauma in our narrative story, and most of our troubled coping mechanisms are attempts to care for ourselves, as best we can, with the skills we have developed, so far. Sometimes, our self-care attempts are harmful to ourselves & to others; sometimes we need new coping skills urgently. But for the most part, except for a few organic dysfunctions, I don't perceive troubled interaction as pathological, nor treat it as such in my practice.

Services I Provide

Individual Therapy & Counseling
Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
Consultation
Clinical Supervision
Other

Ages I Work With

Adults
Elders

Languages I Speak

English

Groups I Work With

Individual adults, age 20 & over, of all genders and affectional orientations, who wish to transform their pain into strength and wisdom; Couples of all affectional orientations, who wish to develop peer relationships based on equality, mutuality and friendship; Couples of all affectional orientations who wish to separate respectfully, and for whom there are no issues requiring mediation