“To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself.” - Irvin D. Yalom
Welcome
InnerScape refers to the rich, unique landscape of the mind and the Self.
Counselling provides a space where clients can focus on the exploration, expression, and understanding of themselves and their experiences.
The work we do together can help you gain insights and shift in ways that feel authentic to you.
Services
Sessions are 60, 90, or 120 minutes, in-person, virtual, telephone, or walk-and-talk/nature-based (when appropriate).
Intensives of 2.5 hours or more are available for individuals, relationship, or EMDR sessions. Half and full-day intensives are EMDR specific.
$150/60min (Intensives available)
Individual therapy helps clients understand their distress, where it comes from, and identify how to live with more peace, contentment, and security.
Processing emotions creates space for clients to connect with more experiences of joy, curiosity, and purpose.
An integrative approach considers the client’s personality and needs while challenging them to shift in a safe and meaningful way.
$225/90min (Intensives available)
In relationship therapy, we bridge the gap in understanding and communication between individuals.
Clients notice the ways that they can be safe, cooperative, and supportive without compromising their individual needs and preferences.
Choice and freedom are central to relational work. There are many ways to exist in partnerships and outside of them.
$225/90min (Intensives available)
Family therapy may include a whole family unit, or certain family members who want to understand or strengthen their relationship.
Sometimes, family dynamics persist in ways that don’t serve us anymore.
Counselling can help people identify patterns they want to change. Together, we can find new ways of relating and engaging that increase wellbeing and contentment.
$275/90min (Intensives available)
EMDR therapy helps people process trauma (single events or repeated/on-going experiences) through eight phases of a structured therapeutic approach. EMDR therapists also integrate various approaches that best match the client and compliment the comfort and processing in session.
EMDR therapy may assist clients in processing trauma and emotions more quickly and thoroughly than regular therapy.
I welcome clients with various concerns and goals
I work with the following clients and service arrangements
Youth, twelve years+ (youth younger than twelve will be considered based on needs and goals) and teens
Adults throughout the life span
Seniors and end-of-life support for individuals or families (travel to a client or client-family considered based on needs and goals)
Organizations, such as workplaces, unions, schools, or support services, can contract me to support their staff, students, or clients.
I am a verified counsellor through Victim’s Services.
I work frequently with clients on goals related to the following areas
Neurodiversity
Identity, meaning and purpose
Responding to or making significant life changes (relationships; career; illness; grief; retirement)
Relational work (partners, family, friends)
Family challenges or changes (fertility, perinatal, loss, parenthood, and caregiving)
Trauma
Please visit my Frequent Areas of Support page for more information on these distinct areas
Amanda Sutton, C.C.C., M.A., M.P.A., B.A. Hons.
My Approach
I’m an integrative therapist and work from a neurodivergent-affirming position. I’m a trained Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist, and a Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C.) with the CCPA.
Many Humanistic and Psychodynamic approaches are valuable and work well together within a client-centered bio-psycho-social-cultural framework. I explore what approaches work best for each unique individual to develop clarity about what contributes to distress. Clients identify strengths, preferences, and values and find ways to resolve challenges.
Some of the approaches I use include narrative, existential, psychodynamic, emotionally focused, and solution focused therapy. Attachment and relational experiences from childhood and throughout the life are considered. Clients can do expressive or creative activities in sessions.
Clients are encouraged to examine context and question problems, systems, and norms. When clients discuss childhood experiences, family dynamics, and relational patterns they better understand how emotions and early experiences impact behaviour, safety, identity, self-esteem, as well as the beliefs they hold about themselves, each other, and the world.
Therapeutic work helps clients explore the stories they hear or tell about themselves or their experiences to process emotions, ease distress, and make different choices. People have an innate drive to understand or create meaning, and anxieties and discomfort exist without it.
Clients can explore their freedom and responsibility and how they can live authentically to feel better and more fulfilled. Depending on goals, they may experiment with choices and small changes that reflect their preferences and discuss success or challenges as they find their best-fit solution.
Depression, anxiety, and interpersonal conflict often decrease. Uncertainties about worth, belonging, confidence, and identity lessen and clients align with their preferences and purpose more comfortably. The experiences and impact of trauma can be explored in session, or through EMDR if appropriate for the client.
Reserve your session
Existing and new clients are welcome to explore my booking system to see what works best for their needs. For intensives, please connect with me through email to discuss your goals and to find the best-fit for session length.