Expert therapy, delivered with warmth & heart
Expert
therapy,
delivered
with
warmth
& heart
ABOUT BLUE SHORES
Our experienced therapists provide thoughtful, evidence-based care in a welcoming environment—helping you feel heard, supported, and confident in the progress you’re making.
Our team brings advanced training, deep clinical experience, and a genuine commitment to listening carefully—so your care is always thoughtful, personalized, and effective.
Blue Shores Counselling is a continuation of the care you may know from Blue Oaks Counselling & Wellness
We now operate independently under a new name, with the same commitment to thoughtful, effective therapy.
WHY BLUE SHORES?
Flexible
Appointments
Specialists You
Can Trust
No
Wait Lists
WHO WE SERVE
Individual Therapy
Couple Therapy
Family Therapy
Teen Therapy
Kids Therapy
Our Therapy Approaches
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps you to understand your thinking patterns and to intentionally cultivate patters that are helpful. CBT can help you overcome thinking patterns that have kept you feeling stuck, when used in integration with other therapy modalities. With the help of your therapist, you can build healthier ways of responding so you can feel more confident, balanced, and in control of your life, whether you struggle with anxiety, mood or stressful life events.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) views the mind as made up of different “parts”: your protective parts, your wounded parts, and your inner wisdom. Rather than fighting against difficult emotions, IFS helps you understand and heal the parts of you that carry pain, fear, or shame. Through this process, many people experience deep self-compassion, clarity, and emotional relief. IFS is especially helpful for trauma, relationship struggles, anxious attachment patterns, self-criticism, and emotional pain.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MBCT)
Mindfulness-based therapy combines psychological science with mindfulness practices that help you become more present and aware of your inner experience. Instead of being overwhelmed by thoughts or emotions, you learn how to observe them with curiosity and calm. Research shows mindfulness can reduce anxiety, stress, depression, and emotional reactivity while increasing resilience and wellbeing. Through guided exercises and reflection, clients develop the ability to respond to life’s challenges with greater steadiness and clarity.
EMDR Trauma Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly researched trauma therapy that helps the brain process and resolve distressing memories. When difficult experiences are not fully processed, they can remain “stuck,” continuing to affect emotions, beliefs, and relationships. EMDR uses structured techniques and bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess these memories so they lose their emotional intensity. Many clients find that EMDR helps them move beyond trauma, anxiety, and negative self-beliefs toward a greater sense of safety, freedom and enjoyment of life.
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) Trauma Therapy
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a neuroscience-based therapy that works with the trauma responses that live in the deep areas of the brain. DBR is both innovate and well-researched, with promising results for relief from PTSD symptoms. It focuses on subtle physiological reactions that occur before conscious emotions and thoughts arise. DBR therapists help their clients’ nervous system process deeply held trauma and attachment wounds through this gentle therapy and can help clients heal from traumatic injuries (including complex trauma and attachment wounding).
Neurofeedback Therapy
Neurofeedback is a brain-based therapy that helps regulate how the brain functions by providing real-time feedback about brainwave activity. Using specialized technology, you can learn to strengthen healthier brain patterns associated with focus, calmness, and emotional regulation. Research shows neurofeedback can support concerns such as ADHD, anxiety, trauma symptoms, sleep difficulties, and mood regulation. Over time, this training helps the brain become more balanced and resilient.
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotion Focused Therapy can help you understand and transform the emotional patterns that shape their experiences and relationships. Rather than avoiding emotions, EFT helps you safely explore them so they can become a source of insight and healing. Research shows that working through emotions in this way can lead to powerful shifts in self-understanding and connection with others. EFT is particularly helpful for relationship challenges, as well as anxiety, depression, and trauma recovery.
Gottman Couples Therapy
Gottman Couples Therapy is based on over four decades of research into what makes relationships succeed or struggle. This approach can help you strengthen friendship, improve communication, and learn practical tools for navigating conflict in healthy ways in your relationship. You and your partner can learn how to understand each other more deeply and rebuild trust and emotional connection. Many couples find that this work helps them move from feeling stuck or disconnected toward a more supportive and fulfilling partnership.
Play Therapy & Sandtray Therapy
Equine-assisted psychotherapy involves working alongside horses in a therapeutic setting to support emotional growth and healing. Horses are highly sensitive to human emotions and can provide immediate, honest feedback about how we relate and communicate. This experience can help clients develop self-awareness, confidence, emotional regulation, and trust. At Blue Shores, we offer highly specialized Equine Assisted Psychotherapy that integrates trauma therapies, including EMDR and DBR in the presence of our horse friends. Many people find that working with horses in this way creates powerful breakthroughs that complement traditional talk therapy.
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Play and sandtray therapy provides children with ways to express feelings and experiences that may be difficult to put into words. Through creative play, storytelling, and symbolic expression, children can process emotions, build confidence, and develop healthier coping skills. These approaches are widely used in child psychology and supported by research in emotional development and trauma treatment. Parents are often included in the process so children feel supported both in and outside of therapy.
Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Therapies
Polyvagal theory allows you to understand how your body’s threat and safety systems operate and why certain reactions – such as anxiety, shutdown or hyper vigilance can occur. Understanding the biology of your nervous system patterns can be incredibly empowering.
Through gentle awareness and regulation techniques, clients learn how to release stored stress and restore a sense of safety and balance in the body. Somatic work can be especially helpful for trauma, chronic stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm, helping you feel more grounded, regulated, and connected to yourself. In turn, you can experience more connected, present and joyfully engaged in life and in your relationships. You can move out of survival mode and toward greater calm, resilience, and emotional freedom.
Blue Shores Team
Julia Lippert
Rosemary Holt
Andrea Foster
Christina Malley
Jason Carter
Cassandra Kustec
Meredith Taylor
Karlene Langman
Therapy Dog
Sunny
How We Work
You are capable of breaking free from negative thought patterns
1
Appointment
Give our office a call or send an email. Our Client Care Coordinator will be in touch within 24 business hours.
2
Intake Forms
When we book your first appointment, we will direct you to the online forms your counsellor would like you to complete.
3
Intake Session
During your intake session, your counsellor will review your intake papers with you and listen to your concerns.
4
Sessions
Counselling sessions can begin. The frequency of the appointments will depend on what you and your counsellor discuss during the plan you create in your first appointment.
5th Children’s Expressive Arts Therapy
Group art therapy sessions for youth to explore feelings, express themselves creatively, and learn healthy coping skills
Blue Shores News
Targeting Traumatic Shock With Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Trauma is pervasive, and thus numerous therapies have been developed to address its distressing symptoms. However, recent estimates suggest up to 50 percent of people with PTSD undergoing psychotherapy still do not respond sufficiently, and up to 25 percent drop out.
‘Life changing’: Equine therapy helps clients through trauma
From the saddles of her three therapy horses, psychotherapist Julia Lippert hopes to help her clients work past their trauma to improve their mental health.