Selah Counselling, Mediation & Training Center

11/11/2025

Today we pause in gratitude.
To remember those who gave their lives for our freedom.
May we never forget the cost of peace and the gift of love that endures.

10/30/2025

Where Love Meets Healing

True healing happens where love and truth meet.
God never approaches us with condemnation, only compassion. Therapy, at its best, mirrors that same heart — meeting you where you are, not where you think you should be.

At Selah, we believe therapy isn’t about fixing what’s broken but creating space for what’s loved. When you’re fully seen, known, and accepted, the parts of you that have been hiding finally begin to breathe again.

This is the sacred space where grace does its deepest work — where shame loses its power, and your story begins to unfold in wholeness.

You are fully seen. You are deeply loved.
And you are not beyond healing. 💛

10/03/2025

✨ Why I Chose This Path

In 1997, I was on a placement with the OPP. I thought I wanted to be an officer—until the day we picked up a man to detain.

I looked at his face and something inside me shifted. I didn’t just see a “criminal.” I saw a story. Wounds. A life that had led him there. In that moment, I knew I didn’t want to spend my life putting on handcuffs. I wanted to spend it helping people find healing.

That was the day my calling began.

Fast forward to today—almost three decades later—and I’ve walked with countless people through loss, trauma, heartbreak, and rebuilding.

And yes… I see the wave of graduates setting up independent subcontracted businesses, filling Instagram with their voices, and I wonder if I should do the same. But here’s the truth:

Instagram will never capture my why.

Because my why isn’t clicks or going viral. My why is the mom grieving her child. The family on the edge of breaking apart. The person behind bars who still has a story worth redeeming.

This work is not just my career. It’s my heart. My life’s passion. My gift is sitting in the sacred spaces of people’s pain and walking with them toward restoration and hope.

So no, I may not keep up with every trend. But the lives I’ve seen healed, restored, and rebuilt since that day in 1997? That is enough. That is the gift. 💙

This is the heart behind Selah Counselling, Mediation, and Training Center

09/30/2025

Team Images. Kelsey joined virtually from Saskatoon. It was fun way to incorporate her in our images. Fun day with the Selah Team. 💜

Thank you to Vanwalk Photography. You did such a great job.

09/30/2025

09/23/2025

Meet Faith Laverty, MSW, RSW
Faith is a registered social worker and psychotherapist at Selah Support who brings warmth, empathy, and years of clinical experience to her work. She believes the foundation of healing begins with a strong therapeutic relationship—one built on safety, trust, and genuine connection.

Faith’s approach is integrative and client-centered. She draws from a range of evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Mindfulness, Somatic Therapy, and Polyvagal Theory, tailoring her work to meet each person’s unique journey.

She’s also continuing her education in Emotionally Focused Therapy and parts work / internal family systems, showing her commitment to lifelong learning.

Her background includes a master’s degree in social work from the University of Toronto. Before joining Selah, Faith worked for five years in community settings supporting people with addictions; during her MSW placement she also gained experience in a mental health hospital, working with clients facing both addiction and PTSD.

Outside of her professional life, Faith is all about the simple joys—spending time with her husband and two children, tending her garden, exploring new trails, singing in the car, and even making homemade pickles.

09/15/2025

✨ At Selah Counselling, we believe kids and teens don’t heal in isolation. ✨

When counselling leaves parents out, children are often sent back into the very environment where the struggles began. That’s why we do things differently. 💙

We intentionally invite parents into the process—because lasting change happens when families grow together. 🌱

Healing isn’t just about the child. It’s about the home. And when parents are equipped, transformation takes root far beyond the counselling room.

➡️ Ready to support your child in a new way? Tap the link in our bio to connect with us today.

09/04/2025

✨ The past doesn’t just stay in the past—it shapes how we think, feel, and connect today. Unresolved experiences can echo through our present, especially in our closest relationships, triggering old wounds we may not even realize we’re carrying.
But here’s the good news: the brain can rewire, and the body can release. Healing is possible. You don’t have to stay stuck in old patterns—freedom, peace, and healthier connections are within reach. 🌿💛
If you’re ready to begin that journey, reach out to Selah Counselling for support. You don’t have to walk this path alone. 💬

09/03/2025

When I first moved to Woodstock in 1997, I joined the tug of war team. Training was tough—bowling shoes with welded metal spikes, hours of practice pulling against a heavy pulley system. It was grueling, but I learned: team effort is everything, and I still had to build my own strength and endurance.

That image has stayed with me. Relationships often feel like tug of war—but they shouldn’t.

In the game, both sides fight to pull the other across the line. Sometimes one side is stronger, and you’re dragged before you even dig in. But in relationships, no one wins when it becomes a battle.

Here’s what I’ve seen: in tug of war, the team that trained hardest holds the advantage. In life, when one person does the work—healing, building strength, becoming self-aware—while the other refuses, the gap widens. The imbalance eventually pulls both sides apart.

The difference? In tug of war, someone is supposed to win. In relationships, if it becomes about winning, both lose.

Healthy relationships look different:
1️⃣ Both do their own work. Growth, therapy, reflection build strength.
2️⃣ Curiosity over combat. Tug of war often comes from unprocessed pain. Try: “I’m curious…” or “I could be wrong about this…”
3️⃣ Keep outside voices out. Other opinions are filtered through their own lenses and can fuel defensiveness.
4️⃣ Healing happens inside out. Restoration comes when those directly involved sit at the table and commit to working it through.

Relationships are not meant to be ropes pulled back and forth until someone falls. They’re meant to be places of strength, curiosity, and healing—where no one wins or loses, but both grow stronger together.

✨ If you feel stuck in a tug of war, pause and ask: Am I pulling to win, or am I showing up to grow?

Reach out to Selah Counselling for support to start your healing journey. Link is in the bio.