Lisa Clarabut Counselling

Hi, I'm Lisa (she/her) and I am a registered clinical counsellor practicing in Victoria, B.C. Thank you for taking the time to find out more about my practice. I have 20 years of experience working as a mental health counsellor, supporting both youth and adults. For many of those years I worked as a counsellor within the school setting.

When I am not working, I love to spend time with family and friends, being in the forest, snuggling with my cat while watching a movie & nerding out on evidence-based psychology books and podcasts.

Please read more about My Approach to see if working together might feel right for you.

Counselling Services

I have skills and experience providing support to clients with concerns about anxiety, low mood, trauma, life transitions, parenting (parent/teen relationships), emotional regulation, grief, and feelings of stress and overwhelm. My way of being is relational, strengths-based, person-centered, and trauma-informed. My practice style is informed by these evidence-based therapeutic models and can be adapted to meet your needs:

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
Somatic Attachment Focused Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (SAFE EMDR) https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/experiencing-emdr-therapy/
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
Narrative Therapy
Response-Based Practice
Attachment Theory
Mindful Self-Compassion

I can provide individual counselling sessions to adults & youth

(ages 12 & up). I also have an interest in working with people who identify as highly sensitive and provide neurodiverse affirming support.

LGBTQIA2S+ community members are warmly welcomed.

I am available to provide daytime and evening sessions, both in person and virtually (in B.C and some parts of Canada).

Fees for EMDR sessions:

50 minute session $150 + GST

80 minute session $225 + GST

Fees for a 50 minute counselling session are based on a sliding scale according to your family income, as follows:

Family Income: Fees:

$110,001 + $200 + GST

$ 90,001 - $110,000 $175 + GST

$ 70,001 - $ 90,000 $150 + GST

$ 50,001 - $ 70,000 $130 + GST

$ 30,001 - $ 50,000 $110 + GST

> $ 30,000 $95 + GST

I am a registered member of the B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellors (RCC #20084). Please contact your extended medical plan administrator to ask if your plan covers Registered Clinical Counsellors.

A designation of BC Association of Clinical Counsellors

Fees

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My Approach

Arriving at counselling may feel vulnerable and uncertain, my approach to working together is to offer a safe space where we can explore the areas that you identify as needing attention. My goal is to create a collaborative relationship which allows you to discuss the challenges you are facing and to offer support and skills to explore these together. I will do this with curiosity, empathy, compassion, and respect for your process. It is important to me that you feel like our counselling relationship is the right fit for you. Research has shown that multiple factors influence client change in counselling, with 30% of that being the therapeutic relationship.

"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."

~ Fred Rogers