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Counselling in Duncan for Children, Adults, Couples, and Families
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Professional Counselling in Duncan, BC
Allius Counselling Services has been working with kids and families for years. Our Duncan clinic serves the Cowichan Valley, with in-person sessions for clients across the region and secure virtual sessions for clients throughout Vancouver Island and British Columbia.
Our team offers counselling across the lifespan from children and teens to adults, couples, co-parents, or even whole families. Our clinicians work from established therapeutic frameworks, including Registered Play Therapy, EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and family systems approaches. We also provide specialized services for separated or blended families, and clinical supervision for learning therapists or those enhancing their practice.
People come to us at a range of life moments. A child whose anxiety is starting to affect school. A teen pulling away from family and friends. An adult navigating anxiety, burnout, or grief. A couple stuck in a pattern they can't seem to change. A separated family looking for help managing co-parenting decisions. Each situation needs a different response, and our role is to bring experienced clinical judgement to whatever you're working through.
Individual Counselling for Adults and Teens
Adult and adolescent counselling at Allius supports people working through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, identity, relationships, work stress, and the kinds of patterns that have started to feel immovable.
Our clinicians draw from a range of evidence-based approaches depending on the problem and the client we are supporting. For many adults, this includes EMDR or Accelerated Resolution Therapy for trauma, cognitive and behavioural approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy for anxiety and depression, and integrative therapy for broader life challenges. For teens, sessions are paced for their developmental stage and often include creative tools to make counselling feel easy.
The goal isn't symptom relief alone; it's understanding what's actually happening for you and developing the capacity to move through it differently.
Contact us to find a clinician whose approach fits what you're working on.
Child Counselling and Registered Play Therapy
Children don't always have the words for what they're carrying. They often show it instead, through anxiety, anger, sleep difficulties, school struggles, withdrawal, or changes in behaviour at home.
Our child counsellors are trained in and supervised in Play Therapy, an evidence-based approach that lets children communicate through the medium they actually use to make sense of the world. Sessions are tailored to each child's age and what they're working through, and may include:
- Play-based therapy
- Sand tray work
- Art and creative expression
- Storytelling and puppet play
- Emotional regulation skill-building
- Parent collaboration and home strategies
Our Duncan office has a dedicated play therapy room, a child-focused space with the materials and toys that real play therapy work requires, not a borrowed office corner or the markers on the desk.
Play therapy may help children work through anxiety, anger, grief, family separation, trauma, school or social difficulties, bullying, depression, phobias, OCD, transitions, or difficulty regulating emotions. Where appropriate, our clinicians may also use trauma-resolution approaches such as Accelerated Resolution Therapy with children.
Reach out to talk with us about whether play therapy might be a fit for your child.
Family Counselling
When one person in a family is struggling, the whole family usually feels it. Family counselling gives everyone a space to be heard, to understand each other better, and to develop healthier ways of responding to what's hard.
Families come to us for many reasons:
- Parent-child conflict that's escalated
- Co-parenting after separation or divorce
- Blended family adjustment
- Communication that keeps breaking down
- Behavioural concerns affecting daily life
- Grief, trauma, or major changes
- Supporting a family member through mental health difficulties
Our family work focuses on understanding the patterns at play, not assigning fault. The goal is to help your family move forward with more clarity and less reactivity.
Get in touch to discuss family counselling in Duncan and the Cowichan Valley.
Couples and Relationship Counselling
Couples and co-parents come to us when the same conflicts keep cycling, when communication has narrowed, when trust has been shaken, or when separation is on the table, and the question is how to move through it well. Our work supports:
- Repeated arguments that don't resolve
- Communication that feels stuck or strained
- Parenting differences and parenting stress
- Trust concerns and rebuilding after rupture
- Emotional distance and disconnection
- Separation, divorce, and co-parenting transitions
- Conflict affecting children and the wider family
Sessions are structured to slow difficult conversations down, surface what's actually being communicated, and help both partners understand what's needed for change.
Clinical Supervision and Play Therapy Supervision
Allius also provides supervision for student counsellors or registered counsellors, social workers, and clinicians, building expertise in their work. Our supervision includes case consultation, ethical reflection, support with complex family and child cases, and structured pathways toward Registered Play Therapy and BCRPT-S credentials.
Play therapy supervision specifically supports clinicians integrating play-based approaches into their work with children. We work with both newer clinicians establishing their foundation and experienced therapists deepening particular areas of practice.
Reach out to discuss clinical supervision or play therapy supervision
Getting Started
You don't need to know exactly what kind of counselling you need before reaching out. Many people start with a phone consultation so we can talk through what's going on and figure out together what kind of support and which clinician would be the right fit.
We offer in-person sessions in Duncan and secure virtual sessions across British Columbia. Booking is available by phone or through our contact page..
How do I book a first appointment?
You can book a free 15-minute initial consultation by phone, Jane's calendar, or through our contact page. Many people prefer to start with a brief phone conversation to talk through what they're looking for before scheduling a full session.