About Patrycja
An Integrative Trauma-Informed Clinical Counsellor, with over 15 years professional experience working with children, teens, adults, couples and families. I welcome individuals of all ages, stages and orientations. My approach to therapy is client-centered, holistic, neurodiversity-affirming, strength and mindfulness based. I feel privileged to support clients and strive to create a safe, confidential, shame-free space; with unconditional acceptance and compassion. With the focus on client needs and goals, I collaboratively work with individuals to help uncover their strengths, inner wisdom and resilience which helps guide their journey of healing, change and connection to their authentic self.
I am a member in good standing with the following professional organizations:
– Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
– Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors
– Registered Counsellor with the First Nations Health Authority
– BC Play Therapy Association
– The International Association Of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation (IAEDP)
Specialized training:
– Narrative Therapy
– Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
– Gottman Method Couples Therapy
– Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Advanced Core Skills Training
– Certified Synergetic Play Therapist
– Certified AutPlay Therapy Provider
I provide counselling in both English and Polish.
I offer in person and/or tele-therapy session via video and phone.
I look forward to connecting with you and hope my openness, clarity, and compassion is a fit to help you, or a loved one, on this journey.
Other Information
Areas of Practice
- Abuse - Physical Emotional Sexual
- Addictions
- Adult Counselling
- Adults
- Alzheimer's | Dementia
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit | Hyperactivity
- Autism
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Cancer Support
- Career & Education
- Child Counselling (0 to 6 yrs)
- Child Counselling (6 to 10 yrs)
- Child Counselling (11 to 13 yrs)
- Children
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Communication Issues
- Crisis Intervention
- Custody Concerns - Separation / Divorce
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Domestic Violence
- EAP | EFAP
- Eating Disorders
- Eating Issues
- Elder Counselling
- Family Caregiver Counselling
- Family Conflict
- Family Counselling
- Family of Origin
- First Responder Counselling
- Gambling
- 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)
- Infertility | Reproductive Support
- Intimacy
- LGBTQ2
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Men's Concerns
- Men's Violence
- Menopause
- Mood Disorders
- Multicultural Concerns
- Obesity
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic
- Parenting
- Parenting - Blended Families
- Peri/Post Natal Concerns
- Persistent Unresolved Long-term Issues
- Person-Centred
- Personal Growth
- Phobias
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Racism
- Relationships
- Relationships - Alternative Structures
- Relationships - Couples
- Relationships - Dissolution | Separation | Divorce
- Relationships - Infidelity
- Relationships - LGBTQ2
- Relationships - Marriage
- Relationships - Premarital
- Retirement
- Self-Harming Practices
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Assault
- Sexual Concerns
- Sexuality
- Shame and Chronic Shame
- Sleep Difficulties
- Spiritual
- Stress
- Substance Use Counselling
- Suicidal Ideation - Adult
- Suicidal Ideation - Teen | Tween | Child
- Suicide
- Teen | Adolescent Counselling (14 - 19 yrs)
- Transgender - Social / Physical Transition
- Trauma
- Trauma - Accidents Death Loss
- Traumatic Birth
- Weight Loss
- Women's Concerns
- Workplace Concerns
Modalities
- Anger Management
- Attachment-based Therapy
- Body-Centred Therapy
- Brief Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Grief Counselling
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive-behavioural Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Online Counselling
- Person-Centred
- Play Therapy
- Sandplay
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Solution Focused Brief
- Strength Based
- Telephone Counselling
- Transpersonal
Patrycja Niesluchowska MA, CCC, RCC
Locations
-
Victoria BC
Wheel Chair Access
Gender
- Woman
Language
- English
- Polish