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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

©2026 by Ania Telfer

Psychotherapy, counselling, and art therapy services for veterans, children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, offered by Ania Telfer, M.C., Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC). My practice integrates trauma-informed, somatic, equine assisted therapy, Equusoma, mindfulness-based, expressive arts, art therapy, and arts-based approaches to support anxiety, trauma recovery, life transitions, emotional wellbeing, and personal growth.

Until the end of July, I offer in-person counselling and art therapy services in Edmonton, Alberta, serving clients from Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Beaumont, Leduc, Morinville, Spruce Grove, and Stony Plain. Beginning in August, I will offer in-person services in Victoria, British Columbia, including Saanich, Langford, Brentwood Bay, Sidney, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Colwood, Esquimalt, Oak Bay, View Royal, and the Greater Victoria region.

Secure online counselling and art therapy are available for clients throughout Canada.

Nightingale Psychotherapy respectfully acknowledges that, until the end of July, services are provided on Treaty 6 Territory and the homeland of the Métis Nation of Alberta. These are the ancestral and traditional lands of the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, and Métis peoples. I honour the many First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples whose relationships with these lands span countless generations and continue today.

Beginning in August, services will also be provided on the traditional territories of the lÉ™k̓ʷəŋən (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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