Donna Phillips, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW

 

Donna returned to her hometown of Fredericton after living away for 30 years. Working alongside a team of other counsellors, they had a vision of opening a private practice here in Fredericton. Before returning to Fredericton Donna worked as an Executive Director for the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia and with the Canadian Mental Health Association Halifax Dartmouth Branch.

Donna takes a holistic approach to counselling engaging clients from a person-centred, empowerment approach to counselling. Utilizing various therapeutic techniques such as Strengths-Based, Solution Focused, CBT, ACT, Narrative and Humanist approaches to practice Donna works with adults, children, adolescents, and couples. Together they are able to address a number of life challenges such as mental health and addictions, family violence, trauma (past and present), grief, employment and life issues as well as circumstances of marital distress, separation, divorce, and child custody matters.

(506) 206-7737 office
dphillips.havenforhope@rogers.com

 

Judy L. McKinney, BSW, RSW

 

Autism Resource Navigator – for families dealing with Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, other Autism Spectrum Disorders, and assisting people to access resources specific to their needs.

Social Worker – counsellor, (twenty years’ experience): Counselling for Stress; Depression; Anxiety; Anger; Trauma; Grief; Loss; Violence and Abuse (past or present); Life changes, and life rebuilding;

Therapeutic Tools: Attention to basic needs – self-care; client-specific resource information and tools to help identify, manage, and process issues and symptoms.

Approaches – Strengths-Based, Client-Centered, Solution Focused, CBT, Crisis Intervention Models.

(506) 206-7737 office

Linda Groeger, MEd, CCC, LCT

 

Linda provides counselling to adults, children and youth with a variety of concerns including, but not limited to anxiety, depression, lack of self-esteem, trauma, relationship issues, anger, and stress. Linda provides holistic counselling that is influenced by a person-centred, strengths-based, and cognitive-behavioural approach. In her practice, she uses mindfulness, art, and play as a tool when suitable. Linda has a passion to help others heal their invisible wounds, create a positive view of themselves, and live balanced lives.

(506) 206-7737 office 

Bruce Van Stone,  M.Ed. CCC LCT-C

Bruce Van Stone is a Canadian Certified Counsellor who also has his Masters of Education in Psychological Counselling.  He is also a Licensed Counselling Therapist in New Brunswick.  He has worked at the Haven for Hope for five years and has been a Counsellor for ten years.   His areas of expertise include addiction counselling, PTSD, and trauma, harm prevention (bullying, sexual abuse, self-harm, domestic violence), managing anger, anxiety and depression and relationship counselling.  His clients range in age from young children to senior citizens.  

(506) 206-7737 office

 

Don Persaud, B.Sc., BNRN, M.Ed., CCC

 

Don Persaud, a Canadian Certified Counsellor, holds a Masters of Education in Psychological Counselling and has a strong background in the medical field.  His area of expertise includes suicide and crisis intervention, coping and managing stress, anger, addictions (sexual/gambling/substances), anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, depression, domestic violence, body image, chronic illness, weight loss (healthy eating), eating disorders, chronic pain, and PTSD. He also provides guidance on relationship issues (couple counselling), self-esteem, self-care, loss/grief management, elderly issues, burnout, and time management.  His holistic, person-centred approach involves various therapeutic techniques, such as CBT, solution-focused, narrative, strength-based, and mindfulness.  Don has personally experienced numerous traumatic losses in his life and so is able to use his life experiences to help make a difference in people coping with troubling life issues.  He works with a variety of clients from various cultural and religious backgrounds, mostly available evenings and weekends.

(506) 206-7737 office

Jedediah (Jed) Wilson, MA, LCT-C

Jed has an interest in working with trauma after using Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Therapy for several years to assist veterans with PTSD.  During this time, he has worked to understand the nervous systems of individuals who are impacted by trauma and brings this information in his counselling practice.

He provides an array of counselling services to teenagers, young adults, and adults.  Concerns include, but are not limited to, anxiety, depression, past and current trauma, grief and loss, self-harm, marriage and couples counselling, and issues facing the LGBTQIA2S+ population.  Jed tightropes a clinical model with holistic work by blending various therapeutic approaches, such as CBT, CPT, REBT, Narrative, and Humanist approaches, while pulling aspects from Mindfulness and DBT.

(506) 206-7737 office 

 

Saiddie-Anne Coutiño, BA, MA, CCC-Q, LCT-C

 

Saiddie-Anne holds a Bachelor’s degree with a focus in Sociology and a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology. Through a variety of personal and professional experience, Saiddie-Anne has had the opportunity to experience the role of being a helper and activist in several different settings.

Saiddie-Anne’s areas of interest are family structures/issues facing families, addiction, and the unique mental health well being specific to various cultural and religious groups.

Saiddie-Anne has experience in working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, dysfunctional family circumstances, couple/marital issues, addiction, past and present trauma (including domestic violence, other forms of abuse, etc.) and loss and grief. Saiddie-Anne uses a holistic approach to counselling with the understanding that issues do not occur in isolation but rather can consist of several, biopsychosocial mitigating factors.
Saiddie-Anne strives to meet the client where they are at by incorporating the integration of several different therapeutic approaches such as CBT, ACT, CPT, narrative therapy, client-centred.

(506) 206-7737 office

 

Miriam Laskey, BSc., BSw, RSW

 

 

Miriam has been active in the field since 2011 and has worked in mental health and child protection.  She counsels from a client-centred, trauma-informed perspective and serves all client populations and has a special interest in matters of the spirit in the modern world.  Miriam practices using elements of narrative, cognitive behavioural, acceptance & commitment therapy, STEPPS program and accepts NIHB clients.

 

506) 206-7737 office

Rachel Cole, MEd

Rachel has her Masters of Education in Counselling from UNB. She provides counselling to children, youth and adults with a variety of concerns including, but not limited to: anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationship issues, trauma, anger, stress, and self-care management. Rachel provides an eclectic view of counselling influenced by a person-centred, strength-based, solution-focused, and cognitive-behavioural therapy approaches. She also incorporates art and aspects of play therapy into her counselling when working with children. Rachel is passionate about helping people reach their full potential. She seeks to create support through a safe and nurturing environment while encouraging clients throughout the process.

 

 

(506) 206-7737 office

Melissa Lanteigne, MEd, CCC, LCT-C

 

Melissa, a Canadian Certified Counsellor and a Licensed Counselling Therapist-Candidate, has a background as a school counsellor since 2017. Completing her Master of Education at UNB in Counselling in May 2018 and becoming a certified Yoga Instructor in August 2019, her approach is holistic and considers the mind-body connection.   Melissa uses various therapeutic techniques, including mindfulness and yoga, ACT, and work from a Solution-focused, Strength-based, person-centred framework.  She is open to seeing individuals of all ages for a variety of mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health challenges and services including, but not limited to stress, chronic illness, anxiety, eating/weight challenges, substance use/abuse, relationships, life and career transitions, identity, trauma, depression, and self-regulation of emotions.  She is currently accepting clients face-to-face and virtually.

 (506) 206-7737 office

Katherine Astle, BSW, RSW

 

 

Katherine has been a registered social worker since 2012. Prior to the completion of the Bachelor of Social Work program, she completed a certificate in Family Violence Issues offered through the University of New Brunswick.

 

 

(506) 206-7737 office

 

Rebecca Dubay, MSW