Holly Gauvin

About Holly

I offer compassionate, trauma-informed counselling to individuals and couples seeking deeper emotional connection, healing, and self-understanding. I work from a relational, attachment-aware framework using modalities, such as Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and attachment-theory-based approaches to help clients, explore how past relational experiences shape their present ways of connecting, coping, and loving.

Whether you come as an individual feeling stuck in patterns of self criticism, emotional overwhelm, or relational loneliness, or as a couple struggling with disconnection, trust, repeated cycles of conflict, or major life transitions, I aim to create a safe and compassionate space where vulnerability is honoured, meaning is rediscovered, and transformation becomes possible. I’m committed to walking alongside clients as they deepen emotional awareness, rebuild trust (in themselves and with loved ones), and forge more secure, fulfilling relationships.

I bring to my practice a background grounded in both lived experience and formal training: a Master’s in Counselling Psychology, core training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and EMDR training. As a Registered Clinical Counsellor with BCACC, I uphold high standards of ethical, culturally responsive, trauma-informed care working collaboratively with clients to tailor therapy to their unique stories, strengths, and goals.

If you’re looking for more than quick fixes or surface-level coping, and are open to doing meaningful inner work to heal patterns from the past and build more fulfilling connection, I’d welcome the opportunity to walk alongside you on that journey.