Hi, I’m Sarah

Hi there! I’m so glad you’re here, and so happy to be sharing this website with you! The Creative Counsellor began years ago, in dreams, through school, in the pages of ragged notebooks — and I’m incredibly grateful and so excited to see it unfold into being.

When trying to decide a name for my practice I went through so many ideas - but I kept seeing most of all a moth emerging from a cocoon. We are so often unfolding into things - into ideas, through our experiences, in process, becoming, growing, changing, sheltering. Some days we are unfurling our wings, other times we’re piles of goo wondering what the next step could possibly be. I’ve been drying my wings and I’ve been absolute GOO and through it all, I’ve found such magic in creativity. I think sometimes when we consider creativity we think of it as this very specific thing - it’s for art galleries and artists - but to be a human being is to be creative. Creativity exists because we exist — it manifests in a hundred million ways in the big and small ways we exist within this world. When I think of the Creative Counsellor, I think of my own creative self and the ways in which creativity has helped me see and share things from different perspectives, the ways in which creativity has - at times - helped me find hope in situations that may feel otherwise hopeless. Creativity flows through so much of what I do and how I exist in the world, so it really made sense for me to label myself as such: The Creative Counsellor.

Along with being a registered clinical counsellor, I’m also an artist and photographer. I create a lot around grief, and in my own life I’ve experienced many different kinds of grief - every individual loss carries it’s own individual impact - I am here to walk alongside you as you explore and process your own grief.

When I was in my mid-30s I was diagnosed with ADHD. Prior to reading about it in a very small section of a school textbook I had never considered that I could possibly have ADHD - but in the lines of that book I saw myself. So many things clicked and I reframed the entirety of my life through a lens of self compassion and deep understanding. Along with that understanding came the deep dive: I wanted to learn everything I could about ADHD + Women, and as I did I began to understand how many of us are diagnosed later in life.

I’ll be updating this space here and there, and you can follow me on instagram: www.instagram.com/thecreativecounsellor

I’m currently booking sessions for January, both virtual online sessions and in person sessions every Sunday at a rented space at Thrive Collective in Chilliwack. You can book right now by using the contact form, but I will have scheduling available through the Jane app soon.

I welcome all bodies, am neurodivergent-friendly, and inclusive.

4 images: one of my favourite paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, me in a field at sunset in Merritt taken by my friend Audra, a beautiful copper moth in northwestern Ontario, a beautiful flower field in Chilliwack