About Heart & Oak Therapy

Counsellors Who Get to the Heart of Your Issues

Heart and Oak Therapy provides therapy in Victoria BC

When you're struggling, you want help from someone you connect with - A therapist who gets you!

You also need a counsellor whose approach and skills get to the heart of your issues.

Our unique approach gives you insight and perspective beyond the surface of your problems, getting straight to the heart of what you’re really struggling with. With the right understanding, personalized tools, and effective guidance, you’ll feel relieved as you deal with your issues with newfound confidence and skill.

Meet Our Registered Clinical Counsellors

Will Bratt is a therapist at Heart and Oak Therapy in Victoria BC

Will Bratt

Will Bratt is a dynamic counsellor with a passion for helping people feel more secure and at peace in their lives.

If you struggle with anxiety, relationship issues, parenting and family issues, or a history of trauma, he’s here to help you feel more empowered and at ease.

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Laura Brown

Laura Brown takes a lighthearted approach to helping you create lasting change in your life and relationships.

Her skillful approach to body image issues, anxiety, relationships, and chronic/reproductive health issues helps you see your strength and feel more confident.

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See Your Problems For What They Are

Traditional mainstream therapists focus on determining what is wrong with you in an attempt to resolve your problems.

This involves assessing the way you think and feel, and framing your thoughts and feelings as symptoms of disorders.

This tired, old approach treats you as though your feelings are the problem, and that the cure lies in simply thinking differently.

Let's face it: If it was that easy, you wouldn't be here right now.

The reality is, your life is made up of more than just thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.

You are a complex social being, linked to other people, family, community, and society at large. By ignoring this, traditional mainstream therapists can fail to help you understand the full context around your problems.

These outdated approaches make real longterm change difficult to achieve.

You deserve an Approach That Works

Heart and Oak Therapy office in Victoria BC

At Heart & Oak Therapy, we take pride in using progressive approaches to counselling.

We believe in looking beyond the surface of your problems, exploring all facets of your life, including how you relate to the world and how the world relates to you.

Using the best parts of Narrative Therapy and Evolutionary Psychology, our strong theoretical framework offers insights that help you feel a sense of mastery over problems that once felt overwhelming. This allows you to see your struggles with a fresh new perspective, and realize tangible solutions to make things better.

By taking a careful look at the rich context that makes up your life, we help you recognize your strengths and capacity to overcome adversity.

This fuller perspective makes space for you to see new possibilities and create change for good!

Counsellors Who Work for Social Change

Another shortcoming of mainstream therapies is that they fail to address important social issues that may contribute to your struggles.

Progressive therapists and activists have shown us that inequalities and injustices in our social world can have a direct relationship with your personal suffering.

Approaches that focus only on thoughts, feelings, and behaviours can leave you feeling alone and ashamed when your pain is in response to real experiences of harm and injustice.

As passionate therapists, we are dedicated to promoting healing beyond the individual level.

We help you recognize connections between the problems you experience and issues that exist within society.

Acknowledging the relationship between your struggles and social injustice helps you feel validated and is essential to addressing problems at their source.

Our approach connects your personal therapy to the bigger process of positive social change.