The heart of my therapeutic approach comes from the integration of my personal history with my professional training and experience. As a parent, and someone who has rebuilt after significant life transitions, I bring lived understanding and humility to my clinical work. My years supporting survivors of trauma and gender-based violence further shape the grounded and real lens I bring to this practice. It was in my late 30s, after becoming a mom, that I returned to graduate school to pursue the clinical work I had long felt called to – a choice that I am grateful to have made and continues to deepen with time. Having invested deeply in my own healing and development, I hold a profound respect for the vulnerability it takes to reach out and step forward on a path of self-discovery.
Carrie Everett (she/her), MC
Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)
With over 20 years of experience supporting people through some of life’s most vulnerable and challenging circumstances, including sexual violence and intimate partner violence, I bring both breadth and depth to my work. My career has been rooted in walking alongside people in some of their hardest moments. This history shapes the way I show up as a therapist: grounded, real, and deeply committed to human-to-human connection.
I don’t limit my work to processing emotions in isolation. My background in social services and non-profit work means I am equally comfortable helping clients access resources and navigate systems. I strive to reduce power dynamics wherever possible, creating a space where clients feel seen, respected, and supported as whole humans. Clients often reflect this back to me as a strength of mine.
I hold a Master of Counselling degree from the University of Calgary and have completed the three‑year Somatic Experiencing Professional (SEP) program. My academic foundation began with an undergraduate degree in humanities from the University of Victoria, which continues to inform my approach.
For over a decade, I worked in the non-profit sector at Bridges for Women Society, supporting survivors of violence, trauma, and abuse — helping women reclaim their lives and move toward financial independence.
More recently, I was fortunate to hold roles at both Royal Roads University and Camosun College, where I supported students from diverse backgrounds in managing the complexities of student life. My roles in this sector also focused on sexualized violence prevention and response, which included working with those who had caused harm to others. I have a particular commitment to supporting survivors of gender-based violence with compassion, dignity, and care.
Trauma-Informed l Somatic l Relational l Social Justice
I believe therapy should feel like it fits you, not the other way around. That’s why I take an integrative, person-centered approach, drawing from multiple therapeutic modalities to support your unique needs. These modalities include somatic psychotherapy, attachment-based and emotion focused therapy, and feminist psychology.
Somatic therapy invites us to explore how emotion lives in the body, not just the mind. Somatic practices support you to increase your capacity with emotional regulation and release stored traumatic stress.
Trauma-informed therapy is about honouring your whole self and innate wisdom, and supporting you to reclaim your sense of safety, personal choice, and agency.
A social justice and feminist lens acknowledges that many emotional wounds are shaped by systems, not personal shortcomings. We often come to therapy thinking we are broken. In truth, we are responding exactly as anyone would when their needs have been unmet or their identity erased.
I believe that supporting others well requires an ongoing commitment to my own learning and growth. I engage in regular peer and clinical consultation, and professional development trainings to ensure I show up as a grounded, reflective, and ethical practitioner. These spaces allow me to deepen my practice, navigate complex work with greater insight, and continue evolving alongside those I support.
Outside the counselling room, you’ll find me spending time with my daughter and loved ones, swimming in lakes, walking forest trails, or practicing yoga. I am a lifelong Vancouver Islander and grew in up in Campbell River – the traditional and unceded territory of the Kwakwaka’wakw peoples.
