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meet the counsellors
At Columbia Counselling, we know that life is hard. We have been walking with individuals of all ages, couples, and families since we first opened our doors in 1984.
We are a team of counsellors who are passionate about caring for people as they face the challenges and uncertainties of life. We offer support, care, and insight to help you move from a place of brokenness and pain towards a place of healing and wholeness.
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M.Ed., RCC
Brian has a Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Arts from SFU. He is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors.
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Brian's approach to psychotherapy has evolved since he began working with clients in 1989. At the heart of any beneficial counselling relationship is a sense of warmth, acceptance, and safety where the client feels respected, valued, and heard.
He believes that relationship is at the heart of healthy human functioning and that our relationships, both past and present, have a tremendous impact on how we live our lives. In order to live healthy and satisfying lives, we need to have an integrated sense of how our life stories influence our current relationships.
"My approach has been heavily influenced by leaders in the field of psychotherapy such as John and Julie Gottman, Susan Johnson (Emotionally Focused Therapy), and Daniel Seigel. From these and many other theorists, researchers, mentors and supervisors, I have developed my approach.
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Asking for help isn’t easy. I always admire the courage it takes for a person or couple to decide to enter into the counselling process. People often feel vulnerable and anxious when they come to counselling for the first time and my goal is to help you feel safe and cared for and to know that you’re not alone. We all long to feel understood and even more so when we’re experiencing the hurt and pain that life inevitably brings. We all experience times in life where we feel stuck or damaged both personally and relationally.
My belief about the therapy process is that in order to heal and grow, we need to “feel felt”—to feel genuine concern and understanding in a nonjudgmental environment. We long to feel that the one listening to us is resonating with our story and with our pain, fears, and hurt. Healing comes as we experience that our concerns and story matter and make sense, freeing us to gain the courage to deal with the reality of our lives. Through this experience of acceptance and validation, we are able to safely integrate our deepest hurts, find hope and move towards healing and wholeness."
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Haide loves to be an encourager and to walk alongside people through life's challenges. Haide has worked in private practice for over 24 years. She has worked with a variety of clients including individuals, couples, young adults, teens, and groups. She provides marital and pre-marital counselling for couples. She also works with individuals and families on a variety of issues including personal growth and understanding, anxiety, depression, living with a disabiliy, grief and loss, partner abuse and control and dealing with difficult relationships.
Haide participates regularly in continuing education opportunities that have included workshops on parenting, couple relationships, executive functioning, autism, mindfulness, anxiety, trauma, and abuse.
Haide has been married for 29 years and has four young adult children aged 19-24. Haide's family is a wonderful blend of neurotypical and neurodiverse. Haide is the one NT in a ND family. In addition to her professional work, Haide has also participated in community speaking panels on “Living With Autism” as a parent participant, sharing about her experience as a parent of autistic children. Haide’s personal experiences of navigating health services for her family add a valuable perspective to her counselling work.
Haide loves creating, whether through cross-stitch, photography, writing, or crafting days with friends. She loves opportunities to travel and enjoys planning trips with her family to see many of the beautiful places on our continent and beyond. She also loves to host friends and family, whether for a few hours or for a few weeks. Haide works at maintaining a balance between life and the many demands on her time and self-care and care of her relationships by ensuring that she has regular time to do things that revive her and to regularly invest in the relationships in her life.
"The most important values that influence my work are authenticity, safety, and emotional health. I seeks to live authentically whether I am in the counselling office or in the community. My number one priority is that my clients feel safe, secure and valued in my presence. I seek to help clients find ways to care for themselves and grow to become the people they desire to be. I care deeply about my clients and enjoy seeing positive change in their lives as they move toward wholeness"
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Online appointment booking: https://haideg.simplybook.me/v2/
Blog: https://haidecounsellor.wixsite.com/encouragement-along
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(she/her)
MA Counselling Psych, RCC
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We all go through times in our lives when extra support is needed. You may want to work through unresolved past hurts, or experience current difficult struggles in your life. Maybe you've survived or are currently living through narcissistic violations or other forms of abuse. Maybe you long to grow your true self; or confidence to establish healthy boundaries and develop deeper and meaningful relationships. Maybe you're neurodiverse, or PDA, or love someone who is, and need support to move forward on this journey of discovery. In reaching for help you've already taken the first courageous step towards healing and eventual greater wholeness. Katharina invites you into a compassionate, warm and non-judgemental journey where you will be safe to work through whatever challenges you bring.
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Approved Clinical Supervisor Profile
https://bcacc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Katharina-Rempel-ACS-Final-PDF.pdf
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Katharina also offers Individual, Paired, and Group Supervision as well as Supervision-of-Supervision for supervisor candidates and new supervisors. Her approach to supervision is guided by process and common factors models of supervision and informed by psychodynamic, attachment, developmental, cognitive behavior, and family systems theories. The clinical supervision process includes a jointly created supervision contract specific to supervisee learning objectives and goals, exploration of case presentations from various theoretical frameworks, using a lens of cultural humility and diversity in observing work and building reflective practice elements emphasizing the person-of-the-therapist development.
As supervisor Katharina serves in multiple functions including teacher, guide, supporter, case consultant, mentor, colleague and advocate with the core being client welfare and supervisee competence development. She offers a warm and safe environment where learning and growing can happen in the process of developing professional competence while ensuring optimal client care.
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I have always felt therapy is an incredible gift. I began my own healing journey in my early 20s. Over the years, I have come to truly appreciate the gift of therapy that was shown to me through compassion, empathy, and a steady and healing presence. I have found these to be vital and necessary aspects of the therapy process which were monumental in my own healing process.
It is an incredible honour for me to be in a place to offer this gift in a safe place for those seeking to begin or continue their own healing journey. Furthermore, it brings me great joy when I see individuals learn to find their own voice through the challenges and traumas they may have experienced in life.
While therapy at the beginning can often feel scary, and even awkward, I trust that in time, like myself, you will learn to experience and trust that the relationship is capable of bringing about the healing and change you desire in your life.
I offer a safe and warm environment where you can express yourself with the knowledge that not only is it safe, but welcomed! Authenticity and compassion are the foundation of human connection. As you reach out to begin therapy you will find this to be a big aspect of our journey together. I recognize your resilience as you seek change in your life!
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Master of Arts in Marriage & Family Therapy, ACTS Seminary, Trinity Western University
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor, and a member in good standing with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
I am also trained Emotions Focused Couples Therapy which is foundational to my work in providing couples therapy.
In my work with individual counselling I often use:
Internal Family Systems
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Narrative Therapy
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Attachment Theory