Donna Phillips, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW
Donna Phillips – Counsellor/Owner
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
dphillips.havenforhope@rogers.com
Judy L. McKinney, BSW, RSW
Judy L. McKinney – Counsellor
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
judy@judithmckinney.ca
Linda Groeger, MEd, CCC, LCT
Linda Groeger – Counsellor
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 cell (506) 259-7352
groegerlinda@gmail.com
Bruce Van Stone, M.Ed. CCC LCT-C
Bruce Van Stone – Counsellor
Bruce Van Stone is a Canadian Certified Counsellor who also has his Masters of Education in Psychological Counselling. He has worked at the Haven for Hope for four years and has been a Counsellor for nine 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.
506-262-6723
Don Persaud, B.Sc., BNRN, M.Ed., CCC
Don Persaud – Counsellor
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, 506-449-0083 Direct Line
Jedediah (Jed) Wilson, MA, LCT-C
Jedediah Wilson – Counsellor
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
jedediah.wilson.counselling@gmail.com
Saiddie-Anne Coutiño, BA, MA, CCC-Q, LCT-C
Saiddie-Anne Coutiño – Counsellor
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, working and volunteering for several organizations throughout the city of Fredericton, 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 dysfunctional family structures/issues facing families, concerns and barriers facing individuals who are or have been incarcerated, addiction, and the unique mental health well being specific to religious and various cultural groups.
Saiddie-Anne has experience in working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, dysfunctional family circumstances, couple/marital issues, 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, CPT, narrative therapy, client-centred, and strengths-based.
“Broken crayons still colour” – unknown.
(506) 206-7737 office
Haven for Hope is pleased to be affiliated with:
Bruce Van Stone at Bruce Van Stone Counselling Services
Judy Muir at Soul Care Resource Centre Inc.
