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Arts and play based mental health and wellness therapy for children and adolescents who are facing challenges with life transitions, trauma, family difficulties, emotional regulation, anxiety or depression.

 

I help foster resiliency, positive identity formation, personal integrity and aid in regulating the nervous system.

 

I bring over two decades of arts-based learning experience and a deep understanding of research to my therapeutic workI am warm, compassionate and empathetic and create a safe and nurturing space.

Looking for art therapy and mental health counselling support for your child or teen?

Are you looking for a warm, creative, trauma-informed counsellor for your child or teen?

Does your child need support with:

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  • emotional regulation and managing big feelings?

  • anxiety, stress, or life transitions?

  • confidence, self-esteem, and identity development?

  • building resilience and healthy coping skills?

  • processing difficult experiences through creative expression?

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I offer child and youth counselling in Victoria, BC, including art therapy, expressive arts therapy, and play-based therapeutic support for children and adolescents. My approach helps young people explore emotions, strengthen self-awareness, develop resilience, and build a positive sense of identity in a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship.

With over 20 years of experience working with children and youth through arts-based learning, along with more than 4 years providing mental health counselling and therapeutic support, I integrate creativity, attachment-informed practice, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care to meet each young person where they are.

 

Art therapy and creative counselling can be especially helpful for children and teens who may find it difficult to express their thoughts and feelings through words alone. Through art, play, storytelling, and other expressive approaches, young people can develop emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, confidence, and new ways of coping.

 

Sessions are available in Victoria, BC and surrounding communities, including:

  • Saanich

  • Brentwood Bay

  • Central Saanich

  • Sidney

  • North Saanich

  • Langford

  • Colwood

  • Esquimalt

  • Oak Bay

  • View Royal

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I also offer support for families across Southern Vancouver Island.

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If you are searching for a child counsellor in Victoria BC, youth therapist in Victoria, art therapy for children, or trauma-informed counselling for teens, I would be happy to connect and discuss whether my approach may be a good fit for your child.

When words are hard to find, art can speak. Let’s support your child’s healing through creativity and care.

hello@nightingalepsychotherapy.ca

address: 304-895 Fort Street, Victoria, BC, V8W 1H7

text or call: 587-400-3179 

©2026 by Ania Telfer

Psychotherapy, counselling, and art therapy services for children, youth, teens, adults, couples, families, and veterans, offered by Ania Telfer, M.C., Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC). My practice provides child and youth counselling, trauma-informed therapy, anxiety support, emotional regulation support, and mental health counselling using a blend of somatic, attachment-based, mindfulness, expressive arts, art therapy, and equine-assisted counselling approaches.

I support children, adolescents, and adults experiencing anxiety, ADHD, neurodivergence, trauma, emotional regulation challenges, life transitions, relationship concerns, grief, stress, and personal growth. My specialized services include equine-assisted counselling with horses, Equusoma®-informed approaches, and creative arts-based therapy to support healing, resilience, self-awareness, and emotional wellbeing.

I offer in-person counselling and equine-assisted therapy services in Victoria, British Columbia, including Brentwood Bay, Saanich, Langford, Sidney, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Colwood, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, View Royal, and surrounding Greater Victoria communities.

Secure online counselling, psychotherapy, and art therapy are available for clients throughout British Columbia and Canada.

Nightingale Psychotherapy respectfully acknowledges that and with immense gratitude the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples on southern Vancouver Island.

I am grateful to the Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and community members who have cared for these lands across generations, those who are with us today, those who have gone before us, and those yet to come.

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