About Linda MacDougall Penner

Counsellor, MA, MEd, CCC, RCT (she/her)

I have had the privilege for over 20 years of guiding and supporting individuals, couples, and families in settings including counselling agencies, EAP contracts, Indigenous communities, post secondary institutions, skills training facilities, and private practice. For the past 14 years, I have practiced as a Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, and a Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists.

My hope is to provide a safe, respectful, judgment free atmosphere grounded in Attachment Theory and Trauma Informed practice. Here, individuals, couples, and families can explore and identify areas of challenge and hurt in their lives and relationships, and move towards well being and connection. I offer a variety of modalities based on your needs and preferences, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, Mindfulness and Somatic based therapies, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT),Gottman Couples Therapy, Play Therapy, incuding Level II Sandtray Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). You are the expert on you; your agency and safety are key to moving forward, and we will work together to find the combination that works best for you.

In addition to my professional experience, I have graduate studies in cross cultural communication as well as counselling, and I love to experience and learn from travel and other cultures,love to be outside, especially anywhere near the water (nowhere better than in my native Cape Breton). I am also a mother and wife, a pet lover, and a fellow human who understands that life can be unfair, unjust, surprising, and painful. We are all just trying to make the best of it.

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