Bernadette Amiscaray

Bernadette is a registered clinical counsellor who earned her Master of Counselling degree from. Gonzaga University. Prior to becoming a counsellor, she spent more than a decade as a communications professional, project manager, and copywriter. The significant overlap between communications and counselling skills allows her to meld language, metaphor, humour, and imagery with openness, curiosity, deep listening, and the ability to hold space for whatever needs to be held.

Bernadette’s counselling orientation is greatly influenced by the philosophies of Carl Jung as well as existential-humanistic, feminist, and person-centered modalities. Her continuing education includes coursework in narrative therapy, focusing, trauma work, and dreamwork. She also brings a strong cultural lens and focus to her work.

Her years-long, ongoing commitment to inner exploration as a counselling client has been her greatest teacher on suffering, individuation, the therapeutic relationship, and the essentialness of connection, joy, and gratitude through it all.

Bernadette’s counselling inspiration: “We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exemple for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.” – James Hollis, Jungian analyst