South Okanagan Counselling

South Okanagan Counselling A Place To Heal & Optimize

🌿 Affordable Counselling Opportunity 🌿We are very pleased to be offering, for a short time, low-cost counselling session...
10/01/2025

🌿 Affordable Counselling Opportunity 🌿
We are very pleased to be offering, for a short time, low-cost counselling sessions with our Master of Counselling Intern. These sessions are available at $30 (tax included) per 50 minutes, with up to 5 sessions per client.
✨ Midweek & evening appointments
✨ Immediate availability
✨ In-person (Penticton) or online
A brief intake is needed to ensure the best fit.
South Okanagan Counselling
📩 Email info@southokcounselling.com or connect online: https://www.southokanagancounselling.com/contact-form
Spots are limited, so reach out soon if this feels like a good fit for you. 💙

🌸 FREE Women’s Wellness Series – Only 3 Spots Left! 🌸In collaboration with the YMCA and South Okanagan Counselling, join...
09/30/2025

🌸 FREE Women’s Wellness Series – Only 3 Spots Left! 🌸

In collaboration with the YMCA and South Okanagan Counselling, join Lucinda Bibbs, Registered Clinical Counsellor & Certified Breathwork Facilitator, for a transformative 4-week series designed to help you optimize your health, elevate your mindset, and embrace a vibrant you!

Weekly Focus:
✨ Week 1: Physical Health – Movement, nutrition, sleep & nervous system regulation
✨ Week 2: Relational Health – Boundaries, healthy connections & communication
✨ Week 3: Emotional Health – Awareness, processing emotions & self-compassion
✨ Week 4: Spiritual Health – Purpose, gratitude & aligned living

📅 Starts Wednesday, October 8 | Every Wednesday | 12:15–1:30 PM
📍 Penticton Community Centre
👶 Free childminding available!
Hurry – only 3 spots left! To register, email lucinda@southokcounselling.com

✨ Upcoming Fall Wellness Events ✨📅 Breathwork & Sound Bath ResetFriday, Sept 12 | 6:30–8:00pmEssential Balanced Healing ...
09/10/2025

✨ Upcoming Fall Wellness Events ✨

📅 Breathwork & Sound Bath Reset
Friday, Sept 12 | 6:30–8:00pm
Essential Balanced Healing | Summerland
Step into fall with clarity and intention. An evening of transformational breathwork + immersive sound healing to release stagnant energy, calm the nervous system, and create space for abundance.
Guided by Lucinda Bibbs & Jessica Corbett.
🧘‍♀️ Bring: yoga mat, blanket, pillow, notebook, water.
✨ Limited spaces — reserve your spot today!

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🌿 Breathwork Series for Optimal Health & Wellbeing
A 4-week transformational journey led by Lucinda Bibbs (Breathwork Facilitator & Co-Founder of New Ground Wellness). Learn to unlock deeper breathing, reduce stress, and reconnect with your body’s natural rhythm.

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💫 Women’s Wellness Series (FREE)
Starting Oct 8, 2025
YMCA Early Years, Penticton Community Centre

A 4-week journey designed for mothers of young children to optimize health, elevate mindset, and embrace a vibrant life. Free childminding provided (ages 0–6).

Week 1: Physical Health – Movement, nutrition, sleep & nervous system regulation

Week 2: Relational Health – Boundaries, healthy connections & communication

Week 3: Emotional Health – Awareness, processing emotions & self-compassion

Week 4: Spiritual Health – Purpose, gratitude & aligned living

Facilitator: Lucinda Bibbs, MA, RCC
Co-Owner, South Okanagan Counselling
📩 Register: lucinda@southokcounselling.com

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Three opportunities to reset, recharge, and realign this fall. 🌸 Which one are you joining us for?

💫 Women’s Wellness Series is back! 💫Starting October 8th at the YMCA (12:15–1:15pm), join South Okanagan Counselling’s C...
09/04/2025

💫 Women’s Wellness Series is back! 💫
Starting October 8th at the YMCA (12:15–1:15pm), join South Okanagan Counselling’s Clinical Director, Lucinda Bibbs, MA, RCC, for a free 4-week workshop series. For Mothers and Young Children

Together, we’ll explore the four pillars of health – Physical, Relational, Emotional & Spiritual – with practical tools and strategies to support your wellness journey.

✨ Free to attend
✨ Childminding available 0-6 yrs
✨ Collaborative, supportive, and empowering

📍 In partnership with YMCA + South Okanagan Counselling.

👉 Save your spot and take a step toward your well-being this fall!

🌿 At South Okanagan Counselling, we believe therapy should be accessible for everyone. 🌿We offer many options for fundin...
08/28/2025

🌿 At South Okanagan Counselling, we believe therapy should be accessible for everyone. 🌿

We offer many options for funding and low-cost counselling, tailored to your unique needs and concerns. With a variety of modalities and styles of therapy — including Walk & Talk Therapy — we’re here to support you in a way that feels right for you. 💬✨

📞 Call us today to inquire about all of our options and find the support that fits best for you.

✨ Meet our wonderful counselling interns, Britney Rust and Melissa Page! ✨Both are completing their practicum in the Mas...
08/27/2025

✨ Meet our wonderful counselling interns, Britney Rust and Melissa Page! ✨

Both are completing their practicum in the Master of Counselling Psychology program under the clinical supervision of our Clinical Director, Stefanie Iverson, RCC.

We’re excited to offer low-cost counselling sessions with Britney and Melissa as part of their internship:
• Individual sessions starting at $55
• Couples sessions starting at $75

These reduced rates are available while they complete their training hours toward becoming Registered Clinical Counsellors.

If you’re interested, we’d love to connect and see if this is the right fit for you. Please reach out to book a free consult.

⚠️ Please note: Low-cost sessions with interns are not eligible for insurance coverage.

🍂 As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, I find myself reflecting on the warmth and growth of summer. Each se...
08/25/2025

🍂 As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, I find myself reflecting on the warmth and growth of summer. Each season brings its own lessons—summer was about movement, light, and expansion; fall invites slowing down, grounding, and turning inward. What are you carrying with you into this new season? ✨🌿

✨ A peek inside our creative therapy space at South Okanagan Counselling ✨Did you know that therapy can look like THIS? ...
08/21/2025

✨ A peek inside our creative therapy space at South Okanagan Counselling ✨

Did you know that therapy can look like THIS? 🖌️💛
Sometimes healing isn’t about words—it’s about creating, exploring, and letting your imagination lead the way.

Here are a few of the creative techniques we use:

Sandtray Therapy – Using sand, paint, and miniatures to create scenes and patterns. This helps bring emotions to the surface in a safe and symbolic way.

Creative Painting – Letting colors and brushstrokes express what’s hard to put into words. The focus isn’t on the final picture, but the process of expression.

Craft-Based Therapy – Hands-on activities like collage, sculpting, or simple crafts that help with grounding, focus, and self-discovery.

The best part? You don’t need to be “artistic” to take part. Every creation is welcome. Every story is valid. Therapy here is about connection, creativity, and finding new ways to heal. 🌿

Your nervous system is the lens through which you experience life.When it’s overwhelmed and in survival mode, even the s...
08/20/2025

Your nervous system is the lens through which you experience life.

When it’s overwhelmed and in survival mode, even the smallest bumps in the road can feel like mountains. Safety feels far away, relationships feel strained, and hope can feel out of reach.

But when your nervous system is supported — through breath, movement, rest, and compassion — something powerful happens:

✨ Everyday challenges feel lighter.
✨ Your perspective shifts.
✨ Connection and peace become possible.

Healing isn’t about changing who you are — it’s about creating the conditions for your nervous system to feel safe again. From that place, growth, resilience, and deeper relationships can naturally unfold.

What’s one practice that helps your body and mind feel safe?

Slow down. Breathe. Challenges show up in all shapes and sizes.Sometimes they’re small annoyances. Other times, they fee...
08/19/2025

Slow down. Breathe.

Challenges show up in all shapes and sizes.
Sometimes they’re small annoyances. Other times, they feel like mountains in the middle of our path.

What truly matters isn’t the obstacle itself — it’s how we meet it.

When we rush to react, our emotions drive the bus — frustration, fear, or anger often take us further from where we want to go.

When we choose to respond, we slow down, breathe, and create space to see clearly. This shift can completely change the outcome.

✨ Try this simple practice when challenges show up:
1. Pause – Take a breath.
2. Notice – What’s really happening here?
3. Choose – Respond in a way that supports your bigger picture, not just the heat of the moment.

With time, responding becomes second nature — bringing more peace, clarity, and strength into your daily life.

What’s one small way you’ve learned to respond differently to life’s challenges?

Slow down. Breathe. Life will always hand us challenges — some as small as a sticky piece of tape, others as overwhelmin...
08/19/2025

Slow down. Breathe.

Life will always hand us challenges — some as small as a sticky piece of tape, others as overwhelming as a major setback.

The difference isn’t whether obstacles show up (they always do) — it’s how we meet them.

👉Reacting is quick, emotional, and often messy. Frustration, fear, or anger take the driver’s seat, and the situation usually feels harder.

👉 Responding is calm, intentional, and grounded. It comes from slowing down enough to choose wisely:

🔹 Pause — Take a breath. Give yourself a moment.
🔹 Observe — What’s really happening right now? Not just what your emotions are telling you.
🔹 Choose — Pick the response that aligns with your values and long-term goals, instead of your short-term feelings.

Every time you practice responding instead of reacting, you’re rewiring your nervous system.

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Penticton, BC

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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7787641401

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