Christopher Simons

About Christopher

If the life you long for reflects your valued way of being, let’s collaborate on identifying, understanding & addressing the barriers, and amplifying the strengths, wisdom & deeper truths that are already present or ready to emerge.

The somatic, trauma-informed and attachment-based training that I’ve received infuses every session. Your counselling goals will determine our approach and may include short-term, solution-focussed objectives, gaining clarity, or longer-term rebuilding after traumatic events. We’ll centre your experiences & understandings because I believe you’re the expert on your life.

Counselling conversations with me often touch on themes of attachment experiences (family and relationship), boundaries, trauma, spirituality, depression, men’s healing, healthy masculinities and men’s sexuality. These are addressed through heartful interpersonal connection, gentle somatic and emotional explorations, and insight-oriented inquiries.

I warmly and wholeheartedly welcome all genders and affection orientations. I honour a wide variety of definitions and forms of intimate relationship.

I’ve had a daily meditation/chanting practice since 2012, which supports my work with presence & mindfulness. I hold a non-dual vision of spirituality, which enables me to honour the beauty in every cosmology. I worked in multicultural & collectivist environments for almost 20 years, which instilled in me a deep respect for a diversity of values and lifestyles, including both normative & queer ways of being.

I see life through a social justice perspective and have been working at interrupting and deconstructing patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and heteronormative influences in me since the early 1990’s. This work is always in progress and I am forever humbled in learning new ways of being here in a constructive way.

Read more at Christopher-counselling.ca

Please feel invited to schedule a free 15-minute meeting to see if we’re a good fit: [email protected]

We can meet in a comfortable office near downtown Victoria, online, or outside at a nearby inspiring park or beach.