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Counselling for Life, Relationships & Everything You're Carrying
A warm, supportive space to understand yourself, work through life's challenges and create healthier relationships.
Affordable counselling in Maple Ridge and around BC
Individual Counselling
For adults who are ready to understand themselves, work through difficult experiences, and make meaningful changes.
Have you spent most of your life taking care of everyone else?
Perhaps you grew up with emotionally immature parents, learned to keep the peace, or became the person everyone relied on.
Now you may find yourself:
🌿 Struggling with anxiety or chronic stress
🌿 Feeling guilty when you set boundaries
🌿 Overthinking conversations and decisions
🌿 Doubting yourself in relationships
🌿 Feeling responsible for everyone else's emotions
🌿 Wondering who you are outside of taking care of others
Many of these patterns begin as survival strategies in childhood and continue long into adulthood.
Together, we'll work to understand where these patterns come from, calm anxiety, strengthen boundaries, build self-trust, and help you reconnect with your own needs, voice, and identity.
You don't have to keep carrying everything alone.
Book a free 20 minute consultation to see whether counselling with me feels like the right fit for you. 🌿
Couples & Marriage Counselling
For couples who care about each other but feel stuck in patterns that are creating distance, frustration, or disconnection.
You truly care about each other.
But lately it feels like you're having the same argument over and over.
One person pursues.
One person shuts down.
Both people leave feeling hurt, frustrated, or misunderstood.
You may be struggling with:
🌿 Communication breakdowns
🌿 Growing resentment or emotional distance
🌿 Trust concerns
🌿 Family conflict or in-law stress
🌿 Difficult boundaries with parents or extended family
🌿 Feeling more like roommates than partners
Couples counselling provides a space to slow things down, understand what's happening beneath the conflict, and learn new ways of communicating and reconnecting.
Together, we'll focus on rebuilding emotional safety, strengthening communication, and helping you feel like a team again.
Book a free 20 minute consultation (together) to see if this feels like the right fit.🌿
Grief & Pet Loss Counselling
For adults navigating grief, pet loss and life after the loss of something or someone deeply loved.
Grief can touch every part of our lives. Whether you've lost a loved one, a beloved pet, a relationship, or an important connection, the experience can leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, or alone.
You may be carrying:
🌿 Sadness, anger, guilt, or regret
🌿 The pain of losing a loved one
🌿 The loneliness of saying goodbye a cherished pet (click here to learn more about pet loss)
🌿 Anticipatory grief while someone is ill or aging and the dreams that came with it
🌿 The loss of a relationship, marriage, or friendship
🌿 Grief connected to family estrangement or childhood experiences
There is no right way to grieve and no timeline you need to follow.
Grief counselling offers a place where your loss can be acknowledged without judgment or expectations about how you should be feeling. Together, we can make space for your grief and find ways to move forward while honouring what matters to you.
Book a free 20 minute consultation to see whether grief counselling with me feels like the right fit for you.
A Little About Me: Jen McDonald, RTC
Hi, I'm Jen, a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor and the person behind Nurture Me Counselling.
I believe that feeling understood and having a genuine connection with your counsellor can make a meaningful difference. My approach is warm, empathetic, and collaborative. I want you to feel comfortable showing up as you are, without needing to have the right words, hold everything together, or figure everything out before you walk through the door.
I'll meet you where you are, listen to what matters to you, and work alongside you at a pace that feels right.
I know reaching out for support can be a huge and often very intimidating and scary step. It may even feel like a weakness. My hope is that by reading a little more about me, it will help to settle some of those very normal feelings you may be having, in trying to find a counsellor who you can feel comfortable being open with. But I want to encourage you to trust yourself, you'll know when you find the right counsellor for you.
A Soft Presence : Meet Willow
Willow is a gentle, sweet and full of character kitty. As a rescue with her own story of healing, she brings a quiet, sometimes giggle inducing, yet comforting presence to the counselling space at Nurture Me Counselling. On calmer days, she may choose to curl up nearby during our session—offering warmth, grounding, and the occasional purr of support.
Her presence is always optional but if you’d like to request a visit from Willow during your session, we can discuss that during our consult call.