About Brenda
Brenda Lucas, MA, RCC, has more than twenty-five years of experience counselling individuals, couples, families and groups. Brenda has had a home based private practice located in Lake Cowichan BC since 2016, and prior to that she practiced in Ladysmith BC for 14 years, Victoria for 3 years, and before that the Lower Mainland for 10 years.
Brenda specializes in anxiety and trauma counselling. She also works with children and youth using expressive therapies such as art, sand and play therapy. Brenda enjoys giving presentations in the areas of: self-care, managing stress and traumatic reaction, developing relaxation skills, and avoiding burnout. A curiosity in human resilience led Brenda to contribute passionately to the field of wellness and well-being. Brenda promotes self-regulation, mind-body centering and calm by playfully teaching breath work, relaxation techniques, and guided meditation. Brenda now lives on the Cowichan River and integrates her natural setting into her practice.
Other Information
Areas of Practice
- Abuse - Physical Emotional Sexual
- Addictions
- Adoption
- Adult Counselling
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Cancer Support
- Child Counselling (0 to 6 yrs)
- Child Counselling (6 to 10 yrs)
- Child Counselling (11 to 13 yrs)
- Children
- Communication Issues
- Depression
- EAP | EFAP
- Elder Counselling
- End of Life Counselling
- Family Caregiver Counselling
- Family Conflict
- Family Counselling
- Family of Origin
- First Responder Counselling
- Gender Identity
- Goal-Setting
- Grief and Loss
- Grief and Loss - Peri / Postnatal
- Grief and Loss - Pets
- Grief and Loss - Suicide
- Indigenous | First Nations
- Individual Counselling (General)
- Life Transitions
- Panic
- Parenting
- Parenting - Blended Families
- Peri/Post Natal Concerns
- Persistent Unresolved Long-term Issues
- Person-Centred
- Personal Growth
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Relationships
- Relationships - Alternative Structures
- Relationships - Couples
- Relationships - Dissolution | Separation | Divorce
- Relationships - Infidelity
- Relationships - LGBTQ2
- Relationships - Marriage
- Relationships - Premarital
- Retirement
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Assault
- Shame and Chronic Shame
- Spiritual
- Stress
- Teen | Adolescent Counselling (14 - 19 yrs)
- Trauma
- Trauma - Accidents Death Loss
- Traumatic Birth
- Women's Concerns
- Workplace Concerns
Modalities
- Adlerian Therapy
- Anger Management
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based Therapy
- Body-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Expressive Arts Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Feminist
- Gestalt Therapy
- Grief Counselling
- Group Therapy
- Hakomi Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Meditation
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Psychodrama
- Sandplay
- Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief
- Somatic
- Strength Based
- Telephone Counselling
- Traumatic Incident Reduction
Locations
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PO Box 1919 - 71 Somenos St N.
Lake Cowichan BC
V0R 2G0Tel: 250-749-0115
Accepting new clients
Gender
- Woman
Language
- English
