Cheyenne Archer
Student Counsellor
(she/her/hers)
Virtual Sessions
Cheyenne is accepting new clients to her waitlist for January 2025!
Please email us at connect@collective-healing.ca to connect with Cheyenne for counselling services.
Cheyenne is from Xa’xtsa First Nation and as a bi-racial person also has settler ancestry. She is a cisgender, heterosexual, non-disabled woman with chronic pain residing on the ancestral and stolen lands of the Stó:lō Coast Salish, Pilalt, Semá:th, and Ts'elxwéyeqw peoples.
Growing up, she walked between the two worlds of her cultural identity. She’s fought to learn and maintain her Indigenous traditions while sharing them with family and friends. The impacts of colonization and residential school on her and her family shaped her to approach life and therapy from a decolonizing, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed approach. She strives to provide safe spaces for marginalized and underrepresented populations.
Before entering the counselling field, she was a nurse and has experience helping and advocating for people as they traverse the complexities that come from medical conditions and navigating the inequitable systems that surround our lives. She also has experience exploring the world of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies. Given her Western education and Indigenous teachings, her approach to incorporating Two-Eyed Seeing strengthens her holistic approach to therapy.
Cheyenne is drawn to narrative therapy and the concept that we are separate from our problems, and they don’t define us. Her work is also drawn from a client-centered, emotion-focused, and strength-based approach to counselling. She feels honoured to walk alongside people on their healing paths and journeys through life.
In her spare time, Cheyenne enjoys beading, doing and watching theatre, playing with her dog, walking along the river with light hiking, and spending as much time as possible with her loved ones.
Cheyenne’s Availability
Location: Virtual
Days and Hours:
TBA
Practicum ends August 2025.
Cheyenne Archer
Student Counsellor
Image Description: Cheyenne is centered in the photo, smiling with her teeth visible. She has long brown hair that cascades over her shoulders, and she wears glasses. She is dressed in a red top layered with a blue cardigan, accessorized with a silver necklace featuring a leaf-shaped pendant. She is standing outside in nature with sunlight filtering through the tops of trees in the background behind her.