Welcome to Safe Harbour Counselling
At Safe Harbour Counselling, Sarah Brooks specializes in Somatic Experiencing™ and NARM™ counselling. Her mission is to provide a safe and supportive environment for adults seeking personal growth.
Based in Summerland, British Columbia, Canada, Safe Harbour Counselling focuses on trauma, anxiety, and depression. Online and in-person individual counselling sessions are available and tailored to your unique needs. Our second location is now open in Mackenzie, B.C.
What is Somatic Experiencing™ Counselling?
As a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner, Sarah uses a body-centered counselling therapy approach that helps individuals process trauma and stress. By focusing on physical sensations, clients can release pent-up emotions and experiences from their bodies. In addition, understanding our physical sensations, emotions, and the meanings we attach to them provides insight to create change. Sarah will guide you through this process, ensuring you feel safe and understood.
Benefits of Working with a NARM™ Therapist
NARM, or NeuroAffective Relational Model, is an effective therapeutic approach that addresses the impact of trauma on relationships and emotional regulation. As a qualified NARM™ therapist, the focus is on:
Understanding the Root of Your Challenges: Helping you explore the underlying survival patterns stemming from past experiences and how they impact your present relationship dilemmas.
Building Resilience & Compassion: Through tailored strategies, Sarah collaborates with you, so you can enhance your emotional resilience and create a more self-compassion.
Creating Healthy Relationships: Our sessions foster awareness and connection, improving your interpersonal relationships.
Why Choose Safe Harbour Counselling?
Experienced Professional: With over 15 years experience and trained as a Somatic Experiencing™ Counsellor and NARM™therapist, Sarah ensures you receive skilled, caring, and compassionate guidance.
Customized Therapy: Sarah understands that every journey is unique. Approaches are tailored to meet your specific needs.
Safe Environment: Your comfort is our priority. Sarah creates a non-judgmental space where you can explore your feelings openly. You are invited to look at your thoughts, emotions, and sensations with a different perspective to know yourself more deeply. You get to choose what feels right for you, as you are the expert of your own life. Sarah merely guides you in this self-discovery process.
Take the First Step with Somatic Experiencing™ and NARM™ counselling
If you’re ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery, we invite you to contact us today. Whether you’re seeking Somatic Experiencing™ counselling or the insights of a NARM™ Therapist, we’re here to support you in person or online.
Contact Sarah to schedule your consultation and take the first step towards a healthier, more fulfilling life.
“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.” — Iyanla Vanzant
Going through the struggle of life can become an insurmountable wall that paralyzes us.
Learning tools of how to move through your obstacles differently opens doors to peace, happiness and freedom.
I can teach you these skills.
Safe Harbour Counselling is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation, which comprises seven member communities: Okanagan Indian Band, Osoyoos Indian Band, Penticton Indian Band, Upper Nicola Band, Upper and Lower Similkameen Indian Bands, and Westbank First Nation, as well as the Colville Confederated Tribes in Northern Washington State. Sarah honours their deep connection to this land and pays her respects to their elders, past and present.
As a second-generation settler with ancestors from England and Ireland, Sarah recognizes that England was a colonial power that contributed to the foundation of Canada through the genocide of Indigenous peoples. Sarah is committed to continuously unlearning the colonial principles she has inherited. Sarah acknowledges her unearned privileges as a white settler, cisgender, heterosexual, non-disabled, neurotypical, financially stable, educated, and female individual.
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