Before the Credentials
Integrative, body-based therapy in Kelowna, BC
I’m Layne and I’m here to be your guide.
Not someone with all the answers, and not someone who's figured it all out, but someone who has walked far enough along this road to hold space for you while you walk yours.
My work is relational and depth-oriented. Anything but clinical. The space I hold with my clients is warm, honest, supportive, and real. I show up in my full humanness as a learner, and the only thing I ask of you is that you're willing to be a learner too. The work we do happens inside this co-created space.
I won't be doing the work for you. I'll be walking beside you while you meet yourself, often for the first time in a long time, sometimes for the first time ever. And what we build together doesn't end when our sessions do. It echoes outward. It keeps unfolding in your life long after our time together is complete.
A little more about me.
Outside the therapy room, I'm a woman still becoming.
I've always longed for a big life. Yet for years, I quietly fought to keep the small one. Not because I didn't want more, but because more meant being seen, taking up space, being known. And somewhere in my body, those things didn’t feel safe.
So I performed. I achieved. I stayed in control. I built a life that looked fine from the outside yet felt smaller than I knew I desired.
What I've come to understand — in my own body, not just in theory — is that the things we want most are often the same things our nervous system has learned to brace against. The desire and the fear point at the same door. Walking through it isn't a sign you're doing it wrong. It's actually the work.
As a woman in my early thirties, I'm learning to build a life my nervous system can finally rest inside. Just like you, my mind moves fast, I can get overwhelmed. I'm forever learning inside my relationships and I'm still getting to know my body. But I'm also learning what it means to meet myself, instead of manage myself.
I'm the first woman in my lineage to take up this kind of space…to go to grad school, to build a business, to use my voice in rooms the women before me didn’t have the opportunity to occupy. That's not a small thing. It shapes how I show up. And it shapes the kind of work I'm here to do with you.
Who I Work With.
In therapy, the relationship between us is the greatest predictor of real change. Not the modality. Not the technique. The fit.
That's why who you work with matters as much as the work itself.
Most of my clients are high-functioning women navigating something they can't quite name. The kind of woman who looks fine from the outside. She is capable and accomplished, the one everyone leans on and just beneath the surface, she is quietly exhausted. Disconnected from herself. Stretched thin in ways she's been managing for a long time.
The clients who often come to me have already done a lot of work on themselves. They’ve engaged with therapy and coaching, and purchased the productivity systems, and done lifestyle overhauls. Some of it helped, yet none of it fully landed.
I primarily work with women, but the door is always open to anyone who reads this and feels it speaking to them. What matters most is that you're ready for something deeper than symptom management and you’re willing to meet yourself in a slower, more honest way than the world has asked of you so far. If this resonates, you're in the right place.
Credentials and Training
You should know who you're trusting with your inner world. Here's where I've trained, what I've studied, and how I keep growing.
I hold a Master of Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English, both from the University of British Columbia.
I'm a Registered Social Worker (License #14700) and a member of the British Columbia Association of Social Workers (BCASW). Align Within Counselling and Wellness operates within the ethical standards of the British Columbia College of Social Workers (BCCSW). You can read the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice here.
Clinical & somatic training:
Pause Breathwork Trauma-Informed Facilitator Training
Mastering Internal Family Systems Therapy for Trauma, Anxiety & Depression
Essentials of Trauma Treatment (CCTP)
Gottman Level One Couples Therapy
HELPS Brain Injury Screening Tool (concussion awareness and brain injury assessment)
Interior Health S.P.E.C.O.
Ongoing learning is part of how I practice. I continue to train in clinical therapy, trauma-informed care, and somatic work so I can keep offering integrative support that meets you where you are — mind, body, and nervous system.
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Let's connect.
If you've read this far and something in you is leaning forward, that's worth listening to.
Book a consult and let's see how it feels to talk.
I respectfully acknowledge that we are on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) Nation. As we live, work, and learn on this land, I honour the past, present, and future of the Syilx Nation and commit to fostering respectful, meaningful relationships with Indigenous communities.