Sarah MacDonell

Offers In-person and virtual appointments
  • Clinical Counsellor
  • Woman
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars. 75 ratings.
Accepting new patients

Provider's hours

Monday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Tuesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Wednesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Thursday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Friday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Saturday
10:00 am - 5:30 pm

Provider information

Description

Your child is struggling. Let’s find a solution that eases their pain and gives them (and you) tools to move forward. 

Sessions focus on learning coping skills, building resiliency, and exploring experiences and feelings in a safe, judgement-free environment. The use of Play and Expressive Therapy, as well as talk-therapy (for teens), allows your child to move through life’s challenges by promoting self-awareness and distress tolerance. 

You’re looking for solutions, and I’m here to help.

Conditions

  • Anxiety
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Communication
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Mood disorders
  • Panic disorder
  • Parenting
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Suicide
  • Thinking Disorders

Services

  • Attachment-based therapy
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Emotionally focused therapy
  • Expressive arts therapy
  • Gestalt therapy
  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
  • Person-centered therapy
  • Play therapy
  • Sandplay therapy
  • Somatic therapy
  • Strength-based therapy
  • Teen mental health

Clientele

  • Children (under 12)​
  • Teens (13-17)​

Languages spoken

  • English

Education

  • Stenberg College, Counselling Therapy Dipl. with Distinctions
  • Synergetic Play Therapy: Revolutionize Play & Therapeutic Practice with Children; Healing Medical Trauma in Play Therapy
  • Parenting - Compassionate Discipline cert., Institute of Child Psychology
  • Brain Story/Oxford Story: Child Brain Development & Neuroscience, U of Oxford & AFWI
  • BC Play Therapy Assoc., Attachment-Based Play Therapy cert.
  • Canadian Mental Health Assoc., safeTALK Crisis cert.
  • Trauma Informed Care, Somatics cert.
  • MBSR-Practitioner certification
  • Non-Violent Communication cert.
  • University of Waterloo
  • Queen’s University

Professional associations

  • Member of the CPCA (Canadian Professional Counsellors Association)
  • Member of CCPA (Canadian Counselling & Psychotherapy Association)
  • Member of CAPT (Canadian Association for Play Therapy)
  • Member of BCPTA (BC Play Therapy Association)
  • Member of WASTP (World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals)

Summary

Your child, you, your family, are struggling... Let’s find a solution that gives everyone the tools to move forward. 

We help children & adolescents learn to cope with life’s difficulties in a way that fosters confidence and builds trust in their own capabilities. 

We support parents, separating couples, individual adults, as well as, offer family therapy.

Sessions focus on learning coping skills, building resiliency, and exploring experiences and n learning coping skills, building resiliency, and exploring experiences and feelings in a safe, judgement-free environment.

Business hours

Monday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Tuesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Wednesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Thursday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Friday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Saturday
10:00 am - 5:30 pm

Services & supplies

  • Attachment-based therapy
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Emotionally focused therapy
  • Expressive arts therapy
  • Gestalt therapy
  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
  • Person-centered therapy
  • Play therapy
  • Sandplay therapy
  • Somatic therapy
  • Strength-based therapy
  • Teen mental health

Amenities

  • Close to public transit
  • Free parking
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Wheelchair accessible
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Provider's hours

Monday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Tuesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Wednesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Thursday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Friday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Saturday
10:00 am - 5:30 pm

Business hours

Monday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Tuesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Wednesday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Thursday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Friday
11:00 am - 8:30 pm
Saturday
10:00 am - 5:30 pm