Lesley Porterfield

About Lesley

Taking new clients. You will feel comfortable with Lesley’s relaxed, approachable, easygoing personality. Lesley offers parenting support counselling, works with clients who are experiencing relationship concerns, and helps individuals manage stress, anxiety, feeling stuck, and/or depression. Lesley sees individuals, partners and family members either virtually or in office.

Relationship counselling with Lesley can give you skills to communicate respectfully and learn to live in a relaxed, non-argumentative relationship. Together we get to the root of the reasons you’re not able to communicate then get your message across successfully.

If your family is struggling with behaviors that are disrupting, frustrating, and/or causing a break-down of the family unit, parent support counselling can help. Through counselling, you’ll learn parenting and communication techniques. Work with Lesley to find ways to manage your family’s interactions, and gain an understanding of, and successfully guide, child/teen behaviors. Lesley has been working with children for over 20 years and has been facilitating The Psychology Foundation of Canada’s ‘Kids Have Stress Too!’ program for several years.

As an individual, you may be struggling to feel well. Working with Lesley will help you learn tools to build resilience and develop skills to move forward. Lesley uses a client centered approach and draws from several theories such as solution focused, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness practices and is trained in the PREP relationship program.

Lesley Porterfield is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Victoria, BC, located at 101-4090 Shelbourne St. Free parking is on both sides of the building (off Feltham & also off Torquay). The office is on the upper level of the complex. Lesley also offers online counselling or Walk n’ Talks, which take place on local trails, for those who would prefer to be outdoors.