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Insight Mental Health Counselling

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Insight Mental Health Counselling

Our mission is to help you find clarity and confidence in navigating life's challenges ✨

11/26/2025

New video!

Meet Jules Smith, MEd, RCT, CCC (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️ our Registered Counselling Therapist specializing in trans & nonbinary therapy.

Jules works with teens and adults who are exploring their gender identity or navigating life as trans, nonbinary, or gender-diverse.

Learn more @ insightmentalhealth.ca

10/08/2025

What have you been reading lately? 📚

09/23/2025

Struggling to Connect Lately? 💬

Are you and your partner stuck in the same arguments?

Is communication turning into silence or frustration?

Do you wonder if things will ever feel easy again?

At Insight Mental Health Counselling, Jane Donovan offers online couples therapy in Halifax and across Nova Scotia to help you:

💛 Rebuild trust
💛 Improve communication
💛 Heal from emotional wounds
💛 Break unhelpful patterns
💛 Rekindle love and connection

Jane uses approaches like Narrative Therapy, which helps couples separate the problem from the relationship — so instead of fighting each other, you begin working together to understand and change the story that’s keeping you stuck.

Whether you’re navigating ongoing conflict, rebuilding after betrayal, or simply want to feel closer again — Jane can help.

🌐 Online sessions available

Private. Compassionate. Rooted in understanding.

📍 Based in Halifax | Serving all of Nova Scotia

09/18/2025

✨ Meet Jane Donovan, RCT
Halifax Therapist & Relationship Counsellor✨

Jane brings warmth, clarity, and compassion to every session — especially when working with individuals and couples navigating the complexities of relationships, communication, and emotional healing.

💡 Jane’s Specialties:

• Relationship Issues
• Domestic Abuse
• Couples Counselling
• Anxiety & Depression

Whether you’re healing from past hurts or building something new, Jane offers a space where you can feel supported, seen, and empowered.

📍 Based in Halifax & offering online therapy across Nova Scotia.

🗓️ Ready to connect with Jane?
[Link in bio] to book a session or learn more.

09/11/2025

📣 New Blog Post

Ever feel like you're stuck—and you can’t figure out why?

Our latest blog explores how narrative therapy invites a new way of relating to emotions like feeling stuck.

🌱 Halifax therapist Jules Smith asks:
“If the feeling of being stuck could speak, what would it say about why it’s showing up right now?”

💭 And Jane Donovan follows with:
“What difference does that make?”

These simple yet powerful questions have helped many of our Halifax clients move from self-blame to insight — and from stuckness to steps forward.

✨ Curious to learn more?

📖 Read the full blog via the link in our bio.

09/03/2025

✨ Our Favourite Therapy Questions: Jane & Jules Edition ✨

In therapy, the right question can shift everything. Today, we're sharing a question each of us keeps close — ones that can bring clarity and connection to our clients. 💭

07/08/2025

☀️ While the world tells us we should feel light, free, and full of joy in the summer… sometimes we don’t. And that’s okay.

You might feel low, lonely, or like something’s missing—even on the brightest days. That doesn’t mean anything is wrong with you. It means you're human.

🌿 At Insight Mental Health Counselling, Jules and Jane offer space to explore the stories you carry—especially the ones that say you should feel a certain way. Summer therapy can be a time to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with yourself. No pressure to feel a certain way, just space to be honest about where you're at and where you’d like to be.

You don’t have to fake the sunshine. You deserve to feel seen, just as you are!

05/20/2025

How Insight Mental Health Counselling Supports Nonbinary & Trans Folks in Halifax:

1. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Affirming Nonbinary and Trans Identities

At Insight, we provide a space where 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals in Halifax can explore and affirm their identities in a supportive, non-pathologizing environment. You don’t need to justify who you are — you deserve care that meets you there.

2. 🧠 Deconstructing Harmful Narratives

We’ll help you unpack the societal messages that have been imposed on your gender and sexual identity — and work toward stories that reflect your truth, your experience, and your values.

3. 🎤 Centering Your Voice & Lived Experience

You are the expert of your own life. Insight’s approach centers your voice, values, and relationships — especially in a world that often tries to define them for you.

4. 💛 Helping You Connect to What Matters Most

We'll support you in reconnecting with the values, beliefs, and abilities that have helped you move through life — even when things felt overwhelming. These therapeutic conversations can help you feel more grounded in who you are, and clearer about how you want to show up in the world. It's not about fixing you — it’s about helping you feel more like yourself.

Whether you're exploring gender, navigating transition, or simply seeking to understand yourself better —we’re here to support you.

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04/16/2025

Meet Brittany Shapovalov, our dedicated Client Coordinator! Brittany is passionate about providing exceptional client care and ensuring your experience at Insight Mental Health Counselling is smooth and comfortable.

With a background in communications and healthcare, Brittany brings compassion and mindfulness to her role. She's here to help you with session scheduling, billing, answering your questions, and to ensure you feel supported every step of the way.

Have questions about our services or need to book an appointment? Contact Brittany or visit the link in our bio.

04/02/2025

At Insight Mental Health Counselling, we believe therapy is a space where your voice, your values, and your story are at the centre. 🗣️💬

We’re here to support you in exploring that story with curiosity, compassion, and care — creating a space where you can find and reconnect with what matters most to you, make meaning from your experiences, and move forward with clarity and confidence. 🌱✨

📅 Book a session or learn more [link in bio]

03/27/2025

Narrative Therapy: Q***r Theory in Action 🌈

Q***r theory challenges rigid categories and dominant narratives—narrative therapy puts that into practice.

It helps trans and nonbinary people question limiting stories, explore identity on their own terms, and shape meaning from their experiences. 💙

Here’s how it works:

✨ Deconstructing Norms ✨
Society tells strict stories about gender. Narrative therapy helps break those down and ask:

➡ Who benefits from these ideas?
➡ Do they reflect my experience?

✨ Breaking Free ✨
Being trans isn’t the problem—harmful cultural narratives are.

Narrative therapy helps separate identity from external stigma. We explore:

➡ How have societal narratives shaped the way you see yourself?

✨ Creating New Meanings ✨
Instead of being confined by rigid definitions, you can explore what gender, transition, and self-expression mean for you.

➡ What brings you joy?

✨ Centering Your Voice ✨
Your experiences, language, and truths matter.

Therapy becomes a space where your story is heard and valued—without correction or pathologizing.

Q***r theory reminds us that identity is expansive.

Narrative therapy helps bring that expansiveness into everyday life. 🏳️‍⚧️💜

At Insight Mental Health Counselling in Halifax, NS, we provide a safe, affirming space where you can:

✨Explore your identity
🌀 Challenge limiting societal narratives
💙 Find meaning in your unique experiences

Whether you're navigating gender identity, transition, or self-discovery, we’re here to support you on your journey.

📍 Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia
📞 Contact us to get started!

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03/18/2025

🔹 Narrative Therapy & Relationships🔹

Our experiences shape how we see ourselves and our relationships. Narrative therapy helps us step back and explore these perspectives in new ways.

🔹 Instead of being "the problem," you are separate from the problem—which means change is possible. 🌱

🔹 It encourages curiosity over blame, helping partners, friends, and family understand each other with more compassion. 💞

🔹 The way we describe our relationships influences how we experience them. Narrative therapy helps us shift from disconnection to more meaningful understanding. 🛤️

🔹 Your values matter. Narrative Therapy helps you reconnect with what’s important to you, guiding decisions and interactions with more confidence. 🔆

At Insight Mental Health Counselling, we help teens, adults, and couples in Halifax and across Nova Scotia navigate their relationships with compassion and clarity.

💡 Ready to strengthen your relationships? Book a session now—link in bio!

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1701 Hollis Street , Suite 800
Halifax, NS
B3J3M8

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 9pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 9pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 9pm
Thursday	9:30am - 9pm
Friday	9:30am - 9pm

Telephone

+19024175077

Website

http://insightmentalhealth.ca/

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