Counselling

The counselling offered through Spirited Connections helps individuals explore their current challenges while actively working to build awareness and tools for sustained positive change. Through this process, you will uncover hidden capabilities, reduce unwanted mental, emotional and relationship challenges, and learn to reconnect and trust in yourself and in those around you. Our counselling i... Read More

The counselling offered through Spirited Connections helps individuals explore their current challenges while actively working to build awareness and tools for sustained positive change. Through this process, you will uncover hidden capabilities, reduce unwanted mental, emotional and relationship challenges, and learn to reconnect and trust in yourself and in those around you. Our counselling is suitable for children, adolescents and adults. These sessions are covered by most insurance providers.


Equine Assisted Therapy

Equine assisted therapy invites participants to take their learning out of the city and out of the office and join us at the farm where our horses become the co-therapists in the counselling process. These programs facilitate in awareness building, skill development and personal growth and change for individuals, families, couples and groups. Participants must be 5 years of age or older. No pre... Read More

Equine assisted therapy invites participants to take their learning out of the city and out of the office and join us at the farm where our horses become the co-therapists in the counselling process. These programs facilitate in awareness building, skill development and personal growth and change for individuals, families, couples and groups. Participants must be 5 years of age or older. No previous horse experience is required. These sessions are covered by most insurance providers.


General Meet & Greet

Spirited Connections offers an introductory meet and greet for clients new to equine assisted psychotherapy. These meet and greets are a great way to meet the staff, meet the therapy animals, and ensure that this approach to therapy is a good fit for you or your child.


Intuitive Readings and Energy Work

The intuitive counselling offered through Spirited Connections helps bridge the gap between the conscious mind, where symptoms and challenges can be identified, and their subconscious origins. Through intuitive counselling, symptoms are addressed within the context of childhood experiences, karmic patterns, past lives, personality and environmental factors, etc. This holistic approach is both g... Read More

The intuitive counselling offered through Spirited Connections helps bridge the gap between the conscious mind, where symptoms and challenges can be identified, and their subconscious origins. Through intuitive counselling, symptoms are addressed within the context of childhood experiences, karmic patterns, past lives, personality and environmental factors, etc. This holistic approach is both gentle and non-stigmatizing, offers healing on multiple levels and across all life areas. Through this process you rapidly gain clarity, insight, and tools for sustainable change; it is a process much more efficient than talk therapy alone. Intuitive counselling is appropriate for those aged 6+ and is available for individuals, couples and families. These sessions are covered by most insurance providers.

Lance Drozda is a Counsellor Therapist who specializes in working with children and adults affected with ADD and ADHD, emotional dysregulation, bereavement, and navigating life transitions. Lance’s work focuses on empathy, compassion and emotional awareness that promotes individual confidence, self-esteem and self-acceptance.

Lance offers individual counselling and emotional mentoring for boys aged 6-24, individual counselling for adults of all ages, and family support.

This includes individual psychotherapy - in person and online - for individuals suffering from anxiety, depression, difficulty managing emotions, a lack of self-esteem and self-confidence, and challenges in interpersonal relationships.

Lance Drozda is a Counsellor Therapist who specializes in working with children and adults affect... Read More

Rebecca Stares is a Registered Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Calgary. Rebecca specializes in intuitive counselling, EMDR, CBT and DBT to help individuals of all ages successfully navigate life’s challenges and past traumas. Rebecca further specializes in equine assisted therapy and offers animal assisted interventions through the Spirited Connections Therapeutic Farm. Rebecca will graduate with her PhD in equine assisted psychotherapy in 2023.

Rebecca Stares is a Registered Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s degree in Social Work from ... Read More

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