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. Not someone who's figured it all out. 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. I show up in my full humanness, as a learner, and the only thing I ask is that you're willing to be one too.
My style is warm, honest, directive, and real. I won't do the work for you. But I’ll walk alongside you while you meet yourself, often for the first time in a long time. Sometimes for the first time ever.
What we create together doesn't end when our sessions do. It echoes outward. It keeps unfolding in your life long after our work is complete.
A little more about me.
Outside the therapy room, I'm a woman still becoming.
I've always wanted a life that felt deep and full. Connection that goes past the surface. Work that asks something real of me. Relationships where I'm fully met, not just functioning inside of. For years, I didn't let myself have it. Not because I didn't want it, but because wanting it 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 the work.
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.
I'm still learning.
Still getting to know my body.
Still learning what it means to meet myself, instead of manage myself.
And I’m building a life my nervous system can finally rest inside.
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-achieving individuals navigating something they can't quite name. The kind of person who looks fine from the outside. Capable. Accomplished. The one everyone leans on. And just beneath the surface, quietly exhausted. Disconnected from herself. Stretched thin in ways she's been managing for a long time.
The clients who come to me have usually done a lot of work already. Therapy. Coaching. Productivity systems. Lifestyle overhauls. Some of it helped. None of it fully landed.
I often work with women, but the door is absolutely open to anyone who reads this and feels like these words are speaking to them. What matters most is that you're ready for something deeper than symptom management and 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.
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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.