Testimonials
Supervision
I have felt nurtured and have learned and grown a lot professionally through your supervision and have appreciated your generosity of time and of heart.
~ Helen
Jan was my first supervisor when I started my career as a Family and Child Counsellor. Raw and nervous as I was, that early experience with her behind me, helped provide the stable base for me to go forward and develop as a professional and helped in no small way to shape my professional identity. She created an environment of trust, support and safety to examine my professional practice and reflect on my work in a non-judgemental way, while offering the value of her experience and perspective that was easy to understand and add to my repertoire if I chose. Now as a supervisor of counsellors, psychologists and mediators I endeavour to give my supervisors the gift of the same experience of supervision as she afforded me. I will always hold her in high regard and am thankful for the experience of her input into my early development as a professional.
~ Kate MacKinnon BA Post Grad Dip (Psych) MAPS
MacKinnon Positive Psychology & Mediation
Client
Jan, I wanted to write to say thank you for being such a sensitive and caring therapist to me. It’s been a privilege to have you step inside my world and support me through my pain and hurt. Little by little your genuine care and heartfelt interest has helped me to see beyond the pain and start to live again. I want you to know how accepted and safe I have felt which has allowed me to trust you with deepest thoughts and feelings.
~ Lyn
My husband and I had a counselling session with you a couple of months ago and I am writing to let you know how much our situation has improved as a result of that session. My husband’s drinking has lessened. We now talk openly together and I feel so secure now knowing he is putting me and our family first. So, thank you! Without your guidance and advice I dare not think where we would be. We were both quite nervous about going to counselling but we both believe it has been the best thing we have done for our marriage. Thanks again.
~ E and J
I wanted to thank you very much for your help this year. I finally feel I have made it through a lot of the ‘mess’ around my marriage breakup and am now a much stronger and happier person, due in large part, to your help and support. I still have some way to go but I know I have grown more in this past year of therapy, with your help and assistance, than I ever have. Thank you for walking with me through this difficult and trying time. I t has been so reassuring knowing I will be heard and understood in our sessions.
~ Dell
Thank you for the teaching of self discipline, the encouragement of understanding, the acceptance of myself, and most of all, the reliance and trust not only have you shown me but had in me.
~ Debbie
Thank you so much for all you have done for all of us. Your caring concern and professional expertise has helped us to find hope, to clear a path through the difficulties and gain a new perspective and sense of direction as a couple and as a family. I don’t think any of us would be where we are today without your input in our lives.
~ M family