Amber (she/her), RCC #21089
Registered Clinical Counsellor — One Branch Therapeutic Wellness
Amber is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who brings warmth, deep compassion, and a grounded presence to her work with clients. She supports individuals navigating grief, anxiety, depression, and significant life transitions, offering a safe and non-judgmental space where people can explore their experiences and begin to find clarity, steadiness, and direction.
Amber understands that reaching out for support can feel vulnerable. Her approach is gentle yet encouraging—walking alongside you with empathy, while also inviting you to lean into discomfort at a pace that feels manageable. She believes that meaningful, lasting change often begins at the edges of our comfort zone, and she is committed to helping clients approach those edges with care and confidence.
Therapeutic Approach
Amber’s work is grounded in trauma theory and shaped by attachment-based, emotionally focused, and somatic (body-oriented) practices. She knows that our experiences don’t just live in our thoughts—they show up in our bodies, relationships, and emotional patterns.
Her counselling draws primarily from:
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Somatic and body-oriented strategies
Attachment theory
Amber believes healing is most effective within safe, connected relationships—including the relationship between counsellor and client. Together, she helps clients move at a pace that feels supportive, building on innate strengths, growing new skills, and ultimately moving toward a life that feels more aligned and authentic.
If you’re curious about therapy or ready to begin, Amber welcomes you to reach out.
A Special Focus: Grief
Grief is complex—painful, disorienting, and often unpredictable. It may feel overwhelming one moment and numb the next. Amber recognizes that grief affects not only our emotions but also our nervous system, our relationships, our sense of identity, and our daily functioning. While grief is a natural process, many people benefit from support while navigating it.
Grief can arise from many forms of loss, including:
The death of a loved one
Losing someone with whom the relationship was estranged or complicated
The loss of a pet, home, job, or community
Shifts in identity or major life transitions
Anticipatory grief
Ambiguous loss—such as when someone is physically present but deeply changed
Traumatic or sudden loss
And many other forms of change that alter the shape of our world
Amber approaches grief through an attachment lens, understanding how the bonds we form—with people, places, roles, and parts of ourselves—influence the way we experience loss and move toward healing.
She also brings her own lived experience with grief, acknowledging that while there may be shared threads between experiences, each person’s process is unique. Her role is not to prescribe how you “should” grieve, but to help you connect with your own way of honoring, feeling, and integrating your loss.
Amber welcomes whatever you choose to bring into your grief process—your family stories, cultural traditions, spiritual beliefs, or the ways you’ve learned to cope with pain. Together, she supports you in navigating grief with compassion and building a path forward that feels meaningful and true to you.