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Expert therapy, delivered with warmth & heart

Expert
therapy,
delivered
with
warmth
& heart

NEW CLIENT CONSULT

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.

Female therapist speaking with a client during a counselling session at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

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

Specialized Therapies:

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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Couples Therapy

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EMDR

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Deep Brain Reorienting Trauma 

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Nerofeedback

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Play & Sand Tray

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Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

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Internal Family Systems 

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Polyvagal & Somatic Therapies

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Our Therapy Approaches

Individual Therapy

Couple Therapy

Family Therapy

Teen Therapy

Kids Therapy

Blue Shores Team

Registered Psychotherapist

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Julia Lippert

Rosemary Holt, Registered Psychotherapist at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

Registered Psychotherapist

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Rosemary Holt

Andrea Foster, Registered Psychotherapist at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

Registered Psychotherapist

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Andrea Foster

Christina Malley, Registered Psychotherapist at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

Registered Psychotherapist

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Christina Malley

Jason Carter, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying)

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Jason Carter

Cassandra Kustec, Registered Psychotherapist at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

Registered Psychotherapist

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Cassandra Kustec

Meredith, Registered Social Worker at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

Registered Social Worker

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Meredith Taylor

Karlene Langman, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) at Blue Shores Counselling in Collingwood and Stayner.

Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying)

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Karlene Langman

Therapy Dog

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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 appointments will depend on what you and your counsellor discuss in the plan you create during your first appointment.

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MCBT)

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 well-being. Through guided exercises and reflection, clients develop the ability to respond to life’s challenges with greater steadiness and clarity.

Couple Therapy

Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotion-focused therapy can help you understand and transform the emotional patterns that shape your 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.

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.

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.

Play & Sand Tray Therapy

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.

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy

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.

Internal Family Systems Therapy (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

Polyvagal & 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.

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 innovative 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).