dean diamond

I am a Nature Guided Focusing Oriented Therapist (FOT), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), and Clinical Supervisor (CCS) with a Masters of Education in Disability Studies.  I offer embodied and experiential forms of counselling in person with individuals of all ages - from toddler to elder.  My areas of experience include belonging, body positivity, disability, dreams, ecological grief, eco-spirituality, embodiment, end of life, gender affirming care, grief, hormone readiness, identity, illness, injury, inner conflict, loss, polyamory, queerness, selective mutism, sensory sensitivity, and sexuality.

I work with the impacts of ableism, gender essentialism, heterosexism, sexism, and trans-antagonism. I will support you to explore and navigate the effects of being othered by systemic oppression and social injustice. I accompany you in cultivating a renewed sense of awe, wonder and belonging by helping you create deep relationships with your Self and Nature. 

As someone living with persistent pain and sensory sensitivity, I understand how ableism can complicate navigating our modern culture, systems and relationships. Being gender queer identified myself, it is a priority for me that non-binary, gender fluid and other binary-disrupting folks find a safely supportive place to explore here with me, regardless of the reason(s) for coming to therapy. 

Having worked within Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing communities I am familiar with Deaf Culture, I have experience working with interpreters, and I am moderately fluent in ASL.

At Hearth Place, the stunning natural spaces and caring atmosphere support you in acknowledging and navigating through the defining experiences that are blocking your personal fulfillment. Guided sessions are thoughtfully designed to help you unplug and reveal, unblock and release, repair and rebound, feel awe and peace.

Hearth Place offers a unique wellness experience that combines embodied, expressive, playful, therapeutic approaches in a stunning natural setting. Engaging with imagination, creativity and play, we will rebuild connections and collaborative relationships with Self, Parts, and Place, in order to relearn, recentre, and resource your own Belonging.

Hearth Place is located near Duncan on West Riverbottom Road next to the Cowichan River on unceded Quw’utsun Territory in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. 

Join me for a free 30-minute in person consultation and learn how my approach and the Hearth Place environment can help you reconnect with your Self and Nature.