Renu Bawa

About Renu

With a passion for emotional health and the human condition, Renu offers registered clinical counselling (RCC) services to help you bring about a sense of calm, peace of mind, greater self-awareness and enhanced self-esteem. Collaborative work helps to create a deeper understanding around your own unique experiences, needs, emotions, thoughts and behaviour patterns to improve on presenting symptoms. Past events, trauma, or current struggles become more manageable, helping you to address your current concerns, apply new skills and to reframe limiting core beliefs to reach your happiest, most successful, and emotionally healthy self. You will experience Renu motivating, coregulating, and encouraging you to realize your own strengths and skills, where you may learn to contribute and relate in new ways moving forward. Using a multitude of strengths-based and solutions-focused psychotherapy interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), TF-CBT, and mindfulness-based strategies, Renu helps you to reduce psychological distress, build confidence, create new goals, and improve self-care along your journey. For couples, Renu offers Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to enhance relationship skills, improve communication, address emotions and needs and to rebuild trust.

Renu would love to meet with you to discuss your goals and needs for personal or professional growth and healing. Children, teens, adults and couples welcome. To book in a complimentary consultation call, or to book your first clinical counselling session, please feel free to reach by email at: [email protected]. Thank you!

About Renu:

Renu was born and raised in BC, and is currently living in Victoria with a great love for the West Coast. Renu has a diverse background in business leadership, victim services support / CYAC management, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, local volunteer experiences/fundraising, relationship support, self esteem or body awareness support, and stress reduction techniques. Using preventative strategies, plus cultural awareness from traveling to over 60 countries, Renu offers a deep level of understanding, care, respect, cultural competency/humility, and ensures a positive supportive connection with her clients.

Renu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Food, Nutrition and Health from the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a Master of Arts Degree in Counselling Psychology. Renu Bawa offers Registered Clinical Counselling (RCC) services and Registered Clinical Counselling Hypnotherapy (RCCH) services using a mindfulness-based approach. Renu is also listed with the BC Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP) as an approved clinical counsellor.

UPDATE: Please note that clinical counselling support services are currently being offered in-person, and also via telehealth / online virtual services (video and telephone) based on client level of comfort and preference. Most extended health medical benefits plans cover a portion of RCC support per year.