Wildhearts Counselling

I'm your ally on the path

As a specialist in Trauma Recovery, I'm here to support your resolution of physical, emotional and spiritual challenges, including complicated grief, anxiety, accident or relational traumas, post-traumatic stress (PTSD), chronic pain and chronic stress conditions. Together we can meet the challenge you are facing and find the route that untangles your blocked capacities.  

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and have been training and applying my specialized skills in Somatic Psychotherapy for 15 years. I completed my BA (Psychology, Honours) at University of Calgary and my MA in Transpersonal Counselling Psychology at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. I'm committed to working my own path of personal development, which allows me to be a more effective mirror for your own work. 

Since 1999, I've been counselling adults from various walks of life and livelihoods, from nurses to corporate leaders, performing artists and engineers, yoga teachers and school teachers as well as other therapists. No matter where you come from, I will meet you in the middle and offer my hand as an ally on your path to recovering your whole self, remembering and reintegrating the parts of you that got lost along the way. I'm exuberant about the vistas and new challenges that we can explore together as your resourced capacity grows strong.

You can expect sessions to be experiential and present oriented, grounded in compassionate non-judgmental awareness.  From trauma to transformation – I will facilitate your individual process with expertise and loving presence.

I look forward to getting started. Your unique journey to fullness awaits.

Warmly,
April Loft, MA RCC SEP

Online availability

Online sessions are an absolutely effective way to access somatic psychotherapy. In person contact is not a requirement to be able to use the mind body tools in this approach.

Since I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor, your extended benefit package may cover my services. I do not direct bill with any insurance companies: you would submit your receipts for reimbursement.

I now have limited openings for CVAP clients. I am not accepting ICBC.

I'm different

I use an experiential and body-based mindfulness approach which allows you to accentuate your organism's natural healing trajectory.

This is not about re-programming you or using behaviourally oriented strategies to get you to be different.

By setting up a responsive and mindful therapy relationship, I support you to make contact with your truth and wisdom unfolding in your unique here-and-now experience. Thats where real growth and change are possible, at the intersection of mindful compassion and clear seeing.

You will take away tools for emotional regulation and stress management that you can use in your daily life. And you will have more access to the authentic you that has been aching to come forward.

I'm qualified

Besides my background in Mental Health and Addictions, I have specialized training as a trauma counsellor, which includes extensive post graduate training in Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner). I’ve studied with Peter Levine on Sexual Trauma, COVID & Post ICU Trauma, Near Death Experiences/ Anesthesia Trauma (Eye of the Needle). I have immersed in Kathy Kain’s integrative Somatic Practice Approach and travelled my own healing journey via Hakomi Body Psychotherapy practice and training for over 10 years.

Other advanced somatic training I have completed include: Touch skills with Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell & Kathy Kain’s Somatic Resilience and Regulation.