Serena Bornholdt

Registered Clinical Counsellor

Serena Bornholdt (she/her) strives to create a safe space that will cultivate growth, foster positive change, and promote healing. With the belief that you know what is truly best for yourself, Serena will help you explore your inner strengths and feel empowered in your life. Serena supports women with a wide variety of challenges, especially in the areas of trauma, attachment, relationships, anxiety, life transitions, personal growth, as well as pregnancy, prenatal and postpartum.

Serena has always had a passion for helping and supporting others through the challenges and emotional moments that they encounter in life. She comes to counselling as a second career, and as a single mother, her life experiences have grounded her belief that transformative change is possible.

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Areas of Support

Anxiety
Pregnancy & Postpartum
Relationship Challenges
Sex & Sexuality
ADHD
Borderline Personality Disorder
Boundary Setting
Burnout
Career Counselling
Emotion Regulation
Gender, Identity & Sexuality
Grief & Loss
Life Planning
Life Transitions
Neurodiversity
OCD
Parenting
People Pleasing
Perfectionism
Menopause & Perimenopause
Personal Growth
Seperation & Divorce
Shame
Stress
Trauma
Unconventional Relationships
Couples Counselling

Therapeutic Approaches

Attachment-Based Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Compassion-Focused
Emotion Focused
Inner Child Work/Parts Work
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Mindfulness-Based
Somatic Experiencing
Sex Therapy
Feminist

Additional Training

  • Registered Clinical Counsellor, BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
  • Master of Counselling Psychology, Adler University
  • Introduction to Sex Therapy, Adler University
  • Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR), Institute for Sexuality Education & Enlightenment
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1: Bridging the Couple Chasm, The Gottman Institute
  • Maternal Mental Health Certificate Training, Postpartum Support International
  • Trauma-Informed Practice Level 1 & 2, Trauma Informed Practice Institute
  • Using Yoga in Therapy, Yoga Outreach
  • Expert Strategies for Working with Anxiety, NICAMB
  • Crisis Survival Workshop: Helping Your Clients Tolerate Moments of Distress, Lifted Counselling and Consulting