Elise Barber, RSW

  • 15 min Phone Consultation
    No Cost

    Individual Counselling

    50 min
    Sliding Scale: $110-140
    Standard: $140
    Generous: $145+

    75 min
    Sliding Scale: $160-190
    Standard: $190
    Generous: $195+

    Relationship/Family Counselling

    50 min
    Sliding Scale: $160-190
    Standard: $190
    Generous: $195+

    75 min
    Sliding Scale: $210-240
    Standard: $240
    Generous: $245+

    Hormone Readiness Assessments
    $300

  • Location: Mount Pleasant, Virtual

    Days and Hours:

    • Monday 2:15 pm - 8:25 pm (Mount Pleasant or Virtual)

    • Person-Centred

    • Attachment Theory

    • Mindfulness

    • Intersectional Feminist

    • Queer Theory

    • Emotional Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)

    • Somatics

    • Parts Work (IFS)

    • Registered Social Worker (RSW), BC College of Social Workers

    • Masters of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

    • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of Guelph

    • Deep Democracy - Conflict Resolution Foundations and Intermediate Courses

    • Heart of Facilitation, Partners for Youth Empowerment

    • Trauma Informed Practice Level 1 - Trauma Informed Practice Institute

    • Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Core and Advanced trainings

Bio

In my counselling practice, I seek to create a warm, grounding and generative space. I work from a humanistic perspective, centred in a belief that each of us is insightful, resourceful and capable. In a counselling session with me, you will find calm patience and encouragement. There will be attentive reflections, curiosity and likely some laughter.

Through more than a decade of experience in community practice, focused on education and capacity-building, I have learned that belonging is a core human need, and a motivator for many behaviours. Informed by attachment theory, I believe that an understanding of ourselves within our relationships can be a powerful foundation for healing and growth. I am interested in supporting clients to deepen their emotional literacy, self-compassion and relational skills to achieve their goals for change. I bring many years of facilitation and leadership experience in community, where I create and hold space for folks to learn, share, grow and relate to one another.

My work is guided by a commitment to social justice values. As a white, non-disabled, cisgender queer femme, I continue to deepen my anti-oppression practices, and I bring an intersectional feminist lens to my work with clients.

Elise specializes in working with adults navigating:

  • Anxiety

  • Chronic stress & burnout

  • Relationship issues 

  • Strained family relations

  • Communicating through conflict

  • Building self compassion

  • Social injustice

  • Identity exploration 

Image Description: Elise is slightly offset to the left, facing the camera and smiling. Elise has long brown hair tied in a bun and green eyes. She is a white, queer femme wearing black-rimmed glasses, a nose ring, long white earrings and a turquoise sweater. Behind Elise, there is part of a large houseplant to her left and light coloured blinds on her right. Photo credit ​www.roughclub.ca/

Elise Barber

(she/her/hers)
Associate Counsellor
RSW

In-Person and Virtual Sessions

Elise is not currently accepting new clients, waitlist available!

If you are interested in connecting with Elise, please contact elise@expressivewellness.ca. For existing clients, self-book here.

Queer Identified, English, Associate Counsellor, Available in the Evening, Sliding Scale Available, CVAP Provider, FNHA Provider, Registered Social Worker, Autism Funding Unit, Hormone Readiness Assessment, Waitlist AvailableLuisa OspinaVirtual, In-Person, Hormone Readiness Assessment, Hybrid, Relationship Counselling, Family Counselling, Individual Counselling