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Looking for support to navigate military experiences and trauma?

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Are you a veteran struggling with:

 

✅ Persistent stress, anxiety, or PTSD symptoms related to military service?
✅ Moral injury or feelings of guilt, shame, or conflict from past experiences?
✅ Difficulty expressing emotions or connecting with others after service?
✅ Challenges transitioning to civilian life or coping with major life changes?

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I offer guidance grounded in research and years of arts-based practice, integrating creative and action-oriented approaches to help process experiences, build resilience, and support emotional well-being—even when words aren’t enough.

veteran specific mental health therapy

Research shows creative approaches can support healing for veterans

 

Studies indicate that veterans experiencing PTSD, moral injury, or military-related trauma often struggle to put their experiences into words. Research shows that non-verbal, action-oriented therapies—like art therapy practices—can help process emotions, reduce stress, and promote resilience. 

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Moral injury happens when what you’ve witnessed or done in service conflicts with your sense of right and wrong. Through gentle support, reflection, and creative approaches, we can process these experiences, express what’s hard to say, and find ways to rebuild trust in yourself and your life.

Together, we can face difficult memories, explore moral injury, and rebuild a sense of self-worth in a safe, non-judgmental space.

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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