Pauline Goh, MA, RCC, FOT

Registered Clinical Counsellor — Nanaimo, BC

• Trauma therapy • Somatic counselling • Focusing-oriented therapy 

• Music-integrated therapy • Couples counselling

• PTSD, Complex Trauma, Inner Child Healing 

 • FNHA • CVAP • ICBC

~ Couples and individual counselling, in-person and online, in Nanaimo, BC, to support trauma recovery, embodiment, and a deeper connection with yourself ~

Regardless of your current symptoms and challenges, you are essentially whole as you are.  Intense experiences like grief and loss, ‘hitting rock bottom,’ overwhelm, stuckness, or burnout can be catalysts for transformation in our lives. A ‘pain body’ can be reframed as a ‘portal’ to consciousness, as shared by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to your life’s purpose.

My role as the therapist/counsellor is to facilitate a safe space, to be present, and to help you to resource. I can support you to practice holding steady, even amidst chaos, and to remain curious. By slowing down, we can engage the heart in the work, connect the dots, and find answers from within.

Primarily working from a Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT) model, I provide somatic (body-based) counselling for adults who are ready to explore their depression, anxiety, PTSD, complex trauma, and relationship and/or inner child wounding. I like how Focusing works gently with what is in the ‘here and now,’ to access new possibilities. It engages whole brain approaches in clinical practice – using empathy, emotion, attachment theory and relational aspects in psychotherapy.

I also offer Music Integrated Therapy, effective for trauma release and connecting the mind and body. I am very comfortable with voice and sound, rhythm, and movement, and trust the body’s intelligence to unpack, and to flow towards well-being.

Trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) and Gottman Couples Therapy, I have enjoyed my role as a couples counsellor (working with opposite and same sex couples). As a person of colour who has navigated different landscapes across the globe, I bring with me embodied experiences to support cross-cultural nuances.