Compassionate Support for Navigating Life's Challenges
A space offering online counselling and coaching to help you navigate life's challenges, reduce stress, create meaningful change, and achieve your goals.
My Approach to Wellness
Hi! I'm Orissa,
a trauma-informed counsellor, life coach, and yoga teacher with a passion for mental health and wellness.
My intention is to bring a warm, grounded, and inviting presence to my clients, creating a space where you can feel safe to show up exactly as you are.
My approach is a blend of relational, cognitive, and somatic work. I believe that healing happens in safe, supportive relationships, when you feel truly seen, heard, and understood by another human, it creates the conditions for meaningful change.
I offer both counselling and coaching, depending on your needs and goals.
Values Guiding my Work
Unconditional
Positive Regard
I hold the understanding that you are doing the best you can with what you have, even when things feel really difficult or messy. When working with me, you will never be judged or criticised. You’ll be met with openness, respect, and a genuine desire to understand your experience.
Staying Client-Centered
I trust that you are the expert of your own experience. In my yoga classes, I encourage my students to listen to their body, move at their own pace, and modify or rest when needed. The same principle guides my work as a coach and counsellor. We move at a pace that feels safe, aligned, and supportive for you, and in a direction you want to go. I'm not leading you to where I think you need to be, I'm walking beside you, helping you find your way.
Integration & Action
Real change happens when we think and act in new ways. I’ll support you in taking aligned action, building self-trust, and creating meaningful change. Together, we’ll explore new ways of thinking, responding, and showing up.
Current Offerings
Professional Counselling
Counselling is offered online across Canada.
If life is feeling heavy or uncertain, you don't have to deal with it on your own.
Counselling can support your mental health and wellness by:
Uncovering Root Causes: Look beyond surface symptoms to understand the deeper emotional, relational, and historical patterns driving anxiety, overwhelm, or feeling stuck.
Nervous System Regulation: Learn somatic tools to help regulate, building your body’s natural capacity to handle stress with greater ease.
Emotional Processing: Gently process unresolved experiences, heavy emotions, and painful life events in a safe, supportive environment.
Transforming Patterns: Honour the survival strategies that protected you in the past while gently updating them to reflect who you are today.
Building Deep Emotional Resilience: Cultivate a strong internal foundation so you can navigate life's inevitable ups and downs without losing touch with yourself.
Book a no pressure, free discovery call to connect with Orissa and see how she can support you and if it feels like a good fit for you to move forward.
While counselling creates a safe, therapeutic space to explore where you’ve been, coaching focuses on your goals and where you want to go, and how to get there.
Holistic Life Coaching
Set goals, create action plans, unlock your potential, build confidence, and thrive in life, work, and relationships.
Coaching can help you:
See the unhelpful patterns you can’t see on your own
Turn your intentions into consistent action
Align with your goals
Uncover your blind spots that have been keeping your stuck
Create a clear plan to move forward and create positive change
Have support following through on your goals
Reconnect with your inner wisdom and build the confidence to trust yourself and take action
You will get:
An objective soundboard. I can reflect your situation back to you honestly, so you can see yourself and your situation more clearly
Accountability. Real, credible follow-through in the specific area you're trying to change, not just cheerleading.
Guidance without judgement. As a coach, I listen closely, ask the right questions, and help you find your own path forward rather than prescribing one
A safe space to be messy. Growth isn't linear. You have full permission to work through it imperfectly while being supported through the learning curve
Tools for lasting change. Different thinking creates different emotions, which drive different actions, which produce different results. Coaching helps you interrupt old patterns and build new ones that actually stick.
Book a no pressure, free discovery call to how Orissa can support you.
Regulate & Reconnect with Yoga
Our bodies hold so much: stress, emotions, tension, and the demands of everyday life.
This is your invitation to slow down, reconnect, and create a practice that supports you from the inside out. Through empowering yoga classes, meditation, and reflection practices, you’ll build strength, release stress, and cultivate more calm, presence, and connection in your life.
Inside the yoga membership, you’ll experience:
A calmer mind
Greater strength, flexibility, and body awareness
Less stress and more space
A more regulated nervous system
A supportive routine to reconnect with yourself
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."
- C. S. Lewis
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