Counselling - General
Boundaries Part II: Boundaries with Individuals, Couples, and Families
The overall health of me is improved by the overall health of us.
July 7, 2023
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He is available for both virtual appointments and in-person sessions for current clients at our Vancouver and Squamish clinic locations. To be added to the wait list, please let us know by following the "book a free consultation" button below.
Shane is a founding partner of Nightingale Counselling and Research. Shane’s work and research in his role as Director are about elevating the potential of private practice counselling therapy, for the benefit of clients, other counsellors, and counselling therapy itself. He works as a mentor, consultant, and instructor on how to ethically contribute to the mental health community through private practice.
Shane is also a member of the BC Search and Rescue “Critical Incident Stress Management” team, where he consults on the Neuroscience of Stress and Resiliency, and has led “Debriefing the Debriefers” workshops after province-wide climate emergencies. He played the lead role in a feature length film on the Neuroscience of Resiliency for these groups facing extreme encounters.
Rates for counselling for Shane are $190+ GST. To support members of the community with affordable counselling, Shane services clients via the Sea to Sky Counselling Community Services Society, the Whistler Community Services Society, Solid State Community Industries (Surrey), and the BC Search and Rescue.
For those interested in counselling therapy with Shane, please read below to see if you may be a good fit for his practice. Shane is a Senior Clinician at Nightingale with only occasional openings for new clients.
The overall health of me is improved by the overall health of us.
Boundary setting is one of the most popular topics in counselling therapy today. Posts about boundaries on our social media get more engagement as the algorithms get to work on some hot content. But I’ve noticed that in the topics that are more viral, the quality of the nuance and sophistication drops by equal measure. Because of this, boundary setting has a pretty poor reflection in the PopPsych of our times.
ADHD is a neurobiological divergence which is present from birth, and that the subjective lived experience of ADHD symptoms is a derivative of this. We’ll return to this shortly, but first let’s have a look at the second competing explanation for the rise of ADHD.
I’m thinking very broadly about the impulse, or emotion, or need which brings people into therapy. I’m not thinking about what’s the most common problem in therapy, or anything like that, but more like what are the ordinary common denominators. And I’m hoping this will lead to insights for helping.
I enjoy my time meeting with Shane and talking to him about anything. I never felt judged or disrespected. On the contrary, the support and lifting that Shane provides is very professional and human. I continue not only to meet with him but also learn how to value myself and kick out all the negativities. Nightingale Counselling has been very easy to deal with, the staff are respectful and professional.
Shane embodies Irvin D. Yalom’s sentiment that “the relationship is the therapy.” It’s the relationship itself that serves as the anchor in our work together. Shane patiently and adeptly took the time to focus on developing a level of trust and comfort necessary in the therapeutic space—something he took quite seriously from the onset. Shane’s inquisitive mind seeks out the angles I don’t often see and truths I would sometimes rather ignore. Over the span of our many sessions, I have been challenged and encouraged to sit with discomfort, explore anger, hone resilience and find inner strength all in the presence of a curious, compassionate witness. Working with him is very much a worthy investment in understanding oneself more deeply.