Peach Door Counselling

I've been a little quiet on here as I turn inward and embrace the slow postpartum days.
But, I'd like to introduce you to baby boy 🩵
Flynn William was born on March 26, 2024 and we are now a family of four!

My passion in my therapeutic work is all things fertility, trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth, birth trauma, postpartum, and parenting so as I live these days in real time the content here will highlight my niche a little more specifically.

Keep in mind, I'm in maternity leave until the summer, but Peach Door Counselling is still open with my two lovely associates, Madalyn and Brittany, meeting your counselling needs 🧡

If you are interested in working with me, send me an email to join the waitlist for my return
[email protected]

Madalyn at Peach Door Counselling has openings as early as next week! Why wait and sit in the pain of core wounds?
Book a free consultation today and experience wellness through connection.

Book online at www.peachdoorcounselling.com
Email [email protected]
Call (548) 798-0891
Madalyn Maxinuk Counselling

To know great sorrow is to also know joy. To know flaming rage is to also know calm. To know let down is to also know contentment.

No emotion is "negative" - they are all just feelings.

Wondering about how to access low-cost or free mental health support and counselling services, or concerned (and rightly so) about the fact that it's really difficult to access free counselling or there are limited resources and long waitlists in town? While we are a private practice, we believe strongly in accessible therapy and affordable clinical counselling! Here's how we help bridge the gap:

* All three of our therapists offer SLIDING SCALE options. These are determined between the client and counsellor and based on financial situation. We work WITH you to make sure your therapy is affordable.

* Our Registered Clinical Counsellors are First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) approved, which means that ANYONE identifying as First Nations, Metis, or Inuit will receive FREE clinical counselling (after pre-determination through FNHA). Note: Status Card number NOT required, though it helps speed the process along.

* All three of our therapists are Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP) approved, meaning FREE counselling sessions for anyone with a CVAP claim number.

* Our Registered Clinical Counsellors are ICBC-approved, which means that anyone with an ICBC claim number after a Motor Vehicle Accident is eligible for FREE counselling sessions.

We offer clinical counselling for individuals, youth, families, and couples/relationships.

We've got you covered and we care. Reach out.
www.peachdoorcounselling.com
[email protected]
343-338-4626

Doing my best these days looks like moving my body slowly and gently, spacing out my clients a bit more, using up my newly renewed benefits for regular massage therapy, connecting with my family, and taking a little mom-cation with one of my besties this weekend 🧡

What's your best?


P.S. this adorable toque is from

Intention setting can happen whenever you feel like it...

Whether you set intentions daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, at the start of a yoga practice, before you commence your work day, at bedtime for the day ahead, intentions that align with your VALUES are going to stick far more than intentions that really aren't about you, but about some version of "you" that you think you should be.

You remember the Flintstone vitamins fondly, but you reach for the boring "one a day" capsules instead...

Why do adults restrict their own joy for the sake of social conformity? If you want the vitamin gummies, get 'em!
(But, you should know, even the One A Day brand gummies say to take two...)

The holidays and christmas time can be strangely conflicting. You feel the inner cymbals of clashing feelings. Joy battling against stress. Expectations battling against ease.

The key to letting joy win? Make more space for it! How? Boundaries.

Stressed about the holiday rush coming up? Nervous about complex family dynamics around Christmas? Worried about expectations and financial distress? Curious about how you'll manage it all? Scared you'll lose sense of yourself with all the hustle and bustle?

We've got you covered! Peach Door Counselling is offering a FREE workshop to help you find both
BOUNDARIES AND JOY DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON!

When: Thursday, December 7
Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Where: Nakusp Public Library
Cost: FREE!
Your Hosts: Richelle Johnston and Madalyn Yvonne

Tea and snacks provided. See flyer for more details or feel free to reach out with questions to [email protected]

Hope to see you there!

Our patterns and behaviours are all ways of coping. Though we may experience a rejection of or shame towards the more "unhealthy" of these patterns, it's important to remember that they arose as a way of attempting to keep you safe.

For example, maybe you don't like the "people pleaser" pattern in you anymore, but it kept you socially included in high school (a time of social distress and attachment shifts).

Try thanking that part of you for what it did and how it kept you safe. And then, when you feel ready.(and this is where therapy can help) you can let that part go on vacation 🧡

What you look like is the least interesting thing about you, and yet so many of us struggle with negative body image.
If you are having intrusive or obsessive thoughts about your body, your shape, or your appearance, you are likely struggling with a negative body image - and we can help!

While the whole team loves to support clients with these challenges, our RCC Madalyn is super passionate about body image, self esteem, and disordered eating challenges.

Reach out for help! Always making space for new clients

Contact:
🌐 www.peachdoorcounselling.com
📧 [email protected]
📞 343-338-4626

Hi! Lots of screen time lately and I finally listened to my body as it screamed at me with headaches and got some blue-light filtering glasses! They seem to be helping...

Welcome to Peach Door Counselling! I'm Richelle, Registered Clinical Counsellor and founder of this little, peachy private practice located in Nakusp, BC. I specialize in perinatal populations (infertility, pregnancy, birth trauma, postpartum depression and anxiety, parenthood transitions, etc), women's wellness, and trauma recovery. I also love love love my youth clients (which plays into my background as a school counsellor and high school English teacher).

I have two fabulous associates who rock it with me every day:

🧡 Madalyn (lovingly called Maddy) is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and specializes in eating disorders, body image, and self-esteem.
🧡 Brittany is a Registered Social Worker and specializes in LGBTQ+, substance use and addiction, and chronic pain.

We also ALL meet your needs for everything in between!
Want to say hi? Drop us a DM or reach out at
📧 [email protected]
📞 343-338-4626
🌐 www.peachdoorcounselling.com

And now she's grating the cheese!

When do we lose the ability to accept the feeling, name it, ride the wave, and ask for help?
Lessons from a four year old...

Depression can feel entirely crippling.
It doesn't need to be!

We want to help you - reach out 🧡

Don't let the natural RESPONSE to hard work make you think you are "failing" therapy. Feeling tired, like you need a rest, or wanting to skip a session here and there means you are actually doing everything right! Reflection, curious inquiry, and self-awareness are like a bootcamp at the gym! You'll need a power shake and a cool down after!

You are doing great. 🧡

Picture this: you are awake in the middle of the night, your heart is pounding and you can't seem to catch your breath. Your thoughts are racing, negative images flashing across your mind. You fret about the day ahead, you worry something is not right...

Anxiety is brutal, friends!

Each of our counsellors at Peach Door Counselling is fully trained and capable to help you cope with anxiety and experience lasting relief.

Reach out for help!
🌐 www.peachdoorcounselling.com
📧 [email protected]
📞 343-338-4626

Here I am, sitting with my sick kiddo, both of us feeling frustrated, bored, and a little worried that this is the third sickness in less than two months.

Physical health and mental health are linked! Take care of both.

Stay well ❤️‍🩹

Actual words from the mouths of clients. Swipe ➡️ to hear what effective therapy feels like!

Reach out if you are ready to feel this way too 🧡

🌐 www.peachdoorcounselling.com
📧 [email protected]
📞 343-338-4626 - confidential voicemail

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 from the team at Peach Door Counselling!

Richelle here: I'm in comfy clothes, with family, having eaten enough pie, and choosing not to share photos on social. That's my balance 🧡

What's yours?

Immersing myself in The Botanical Bible this morning - little steps to my dream of nurturing, growing, and creating a herbal garden and apothecary 🧡

We believe in ACCESSIBILITY of counselling and mental health services! Swipe ➡️ to see what options for affordable counselling we offer at Peach Door Counselling.

The bounty of October! We don't grow peaches...yet (planted a small tree this summer) but we sure roll in the plums this month 🧡

Grateful.

What's in your bounty this month?

Our therapists are devoted to developing a healing, healthy, and always therapeutic relationship with you.

Let your therapeutic relationship with your counsellor be the road to relational healing.

Book a FREE consultation today.

🌐 www.peachdoorcounselling.com

📞 343-338-4626

📧 [email protected]

Struggling with body image challenges? Low self-esteem? Disordered eating or chronic dieting? Clinical counsellor Maddy would love to help!
Offering a FREE consultation to new clients and immediate availability both online or in-person in Nakusp!

www.peachdoorcounselling.com
[email protected]
Peach Door Counselling

Each time you name and okay your feelings, each time you rest unapologetically, each time you sit in the uncomfortable spaces, each time you catch yourself and show yourself grace, each time you choose you, you are making small, invaluable steps.
And you should be so proud.

We are 🧡


🌐 www.peachdoorcounselling.com
📞 343-338-4626

Are you waiting for a permission slip?
Chances are, no one but yourself can give you the permission you need to be a human. Show up, be you, make mistakes, fail, feel joy, get angry, yell, cry, laugh, rest. All of it. Fully.

You have permission 🧡

Showing up is what matters. Goals, sure. End results, awesome. But continued commitment? Heck YES! Showing up for yourself looks just like that: showing up however you can, however you need.
Therapy is much the same - sure, we want to know what your goals are and support you getting there, but we are so much more excited - and think you ought to be too - when you continue to show up for yourself (which, yes, does look like coming to your counselling sessions 😉).

Want to start showing up?
We've got openings for new clients! Immediate virtual availability. Free consultation offered to see goodness of fit and three awesome therapists to choose from!

Link in bio to book
📞 338-343-4626
🌐 www.peachdoorcounselling.com

Did you know...
One of our values at Peach Door Counselling is ACCESSIBILITY.
We believe that anyone who wants to ask for help or needs mental health support should receive it. That's why, all of our peachy counsellors offer a LOW-COST or SLIDING SCALE option!
If you don't have extended health benefits, don't qualify for FNHA, CVAP, or ICBC coverage, and find out regular rate a little tough to manage, thats okay, we've got you covered!
Low-cost counselling means you and your therapist will discuss a rate that works for you, so you can access services without additional financial stress.
Reach out about sliding scale options today - contact via our website (link in bio) or email
[email protected]

Take care of you, let us help.
Let's work together to get everything just Peachy 🍑

Fine print: please note that low-cost and sliding scale sessions are limited both in availability and total number of sessions and are determined on an as-needed basis collaboratively between client and counsellor.

Did you know we offer COUPLES and RELATIONSHIP counselling now?
Brittany, our fabulous associate, is taking new clients including couples, relationships, and families. Brittany has openings virtually as early as next week and in-person in August!
Book today, because your relationship is worth it!
www.peachdoorcounselling.com/services