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Meet Shaunna

Shaunna Grams is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) in good standing with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). She completed her Masters of Counselling Psychology at Adler University and her graduate internship at the University of British Columbia. She practices throughout the province of British Columbia and has been in the counselling field for over 15 years. She has developed and collaborated on research in attribution theory, coping styles, and concurrent disorders. She has also worked closely with psychologists in the assessment field. 

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Shaunna enjoys living and working in the beautiful Okanagan. There is always something to see in the numerous parks or along the many winding trails.  She especially likes camping and fishing with her husband and family.

Shaunna Grams, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), Counsellor for youth and adults in Lake Country BC, Okanagan Area

My Practice

Whether you seek skills acquisition, introspection, or a safe place to have a voice, Shaunna welcomes you and invites you to meet with her. Shaunna provides evidence-based counselling along an integrated approach that utilizes: 

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Shaunna fosters a counselling environment that is warm and welcoming. She actively works to establish a therapeutic alliance that promotes understanding, non-judgment and trust. In establishing your goals for counselling, Shaunna adapts her approach depending on counselling preferences for process-based or structure-based.  Through an integrated approach, Shaunna knows it is important to attend to bottom-up processing (e.g., body, nervous system, sensations) and top-down processing (e.g., mind, thoughts, motivation). 

 

Shaunna sees youth (age 16+) and adults for individual counselling sessions and offers counselling in the following areas:

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  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

  • Adlerian Therapy

  • Solution Focused Therapy

  • Client Centered Therapy

  • Depression

  • Emotional Regulation

  • Grief

  • Self Care

  • Self Exploration

  • Skill Development

  • Spiritual

  • Stress

  • Trauma

  • Anxiety

  • Coping Strategies

  • Chronic Illness & Pain

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • Psychoeducation

My Journey

I started out taking a degree in science and ended up graduating with a degree in arts. Isn't that how some things work out? We know things about ourselves through thinking but other things we find out through doing. I entered the psychology field through the assessment path when I was invited to work at a psychologist's office. This job became ground zero for what would become a journey I often look back on with humility and gratefulness.

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I first trained as a psychometrist and assisted with psycho-educational assessments. I then received an opportunity to work at British Columbia's Children's Hospital (BCCH) in the Neurosciences division. It was at this time that I become hooked; the intersections of our physical, cognitive, spiritual and behavioral systems were both mysterious yet knowable at the same time.  I dove in; I participated in research projects, training workshops, program development, counselling and volunteering.  And somehow, I started private practice in the midst. I narrowed my focus to being an employee assistance program counsellor and focused on further growing my skills and knowledge to best meet the diverse needs of the clients that came through my door. To this day, I still enjoy the assessment and research fields and appreciate how they inform my counselling framework.  

 

In the years that I have been in the psychology field, I have sought to provide this: a place where the intersections of ourselves and the systems we are in flow with meaning, purpose, and balance.  I didn't start out with this end goal in mind.  What started out as a science degree turned into an arts degree. And what started out as an assessment path, turned into a counselling path. I guess in  my case it's true: sometimes the path only reveals itself when the step has been taken. 

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