Black Otter Cove Vacation Rentals and Retreat

Welcome to Parten Counselling and Art Therapy

I work actively with individuals, couples, and groups. I also offer a counselling retreat for those who wish to do in-depth work in a very private and natural oceanfront setting at Black Otter Cove in South Vancouver Island. A small cottage or oceanfront suite can be booked depending upon availability, along with an art studio overlooking spectacular views of the ocean (view here)

The focus is on partnering with each individual to seek relief from emotional pain; to enhance better understanding of one's life and how it is being lived; and to embrace positive and lasting behavioral changes towards living life to the fullest.

I include creative therapies with talk therapy to assist in utilizing the fullest potential for understanding, and self-awareness. Talk therapy alone can sometimes inhibit full expression of deep pain, suffering, and desires, whereas our creative process can reveal to us our truths uncensored.

 

"It is our own responsibility to live life today to the fullest by taking the opportunities to learn about ourselves through our mistakes, our losses, our human failures and to own our strengths and our potential growth"

                                               - Lynne Parten

                  R.N.M.S.N., Art Ther. (Cert.)

             Registered Clinical Counsellor

 

 

Services that I offer;

• Loss / Bereavement / Critical Incident Stress
  

• Chronic illness

• Abuse issues

• Anxiety/depression

• Eating disorders and body image
  
  
• Addictions
  
  
  

 

We can create a more honest, positive, and self- nourishing physical, psychological, social, and spiritual relationship with ourselves and with others.

I am currently registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counselors, and with the BC College of Nurses.