Corey is an intern clinical counsellor who brings over 20 years of frontline experience to his practice. As a veteran, Corey has worked with individuals from diverse backgrounds and is well-equipped to support clients facing a wide range of challenges. His career shift into counselling was inspired by witnessing the powerful, transformative impact therapy had on at-risk individuals. This led him to pursue rigorous training with the goal of walking alongside others in a compassionate, purposeful, and lasting way.

Corey believes in building a collaborative and transparent therapeutic relationship, where clients feel respected, heard, and empowered. His approach is rooted in empathy and a deep commitment to creating a safe and supportive space for personal growth. Corey tailors his therapeutic methods to meet the unique needs of each individual, using a goal-oriented framework that helps clients move beyond their current challenges toward meaningful and lasting change.

With individuals, Corey integrates evidence-based modalities such as Bowen Family Systems Therapy, Psychoanalytic Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. When working with couples, he draws from approaches including the Gottman Method, Developmental Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy (CBCT) to foster emotional maturity, secure attachment, and relational resilience.

Corey has worked extensively with diverse populations and is especially passionate about supporting children/youth, individuals navigating addiction, trauma survivors, and couples seeking to strengthen their relationships. He has a particular heart for frontline workers, drawing from his own experience to help them build resilience, recover from burnout, and process occupational trauma in a supportive and nonjudgmental environment.

Outside the counselling room, Corey leads a life rooted in adventure, service, and connection with nature. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoys hunting, fishing, fly tying, beekeeping, scuba diving, canoe tripping, and cabin building. As a certified Nova Scotia Guide, he volunteers as a fishing guide for veterans recovering from PTSD, combining his love for the outdoors with therapeutic support. Corey is also deeply involved in youth mentorship through survival camps, Scouts Canada, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and various faith-based community groups and ministries. His life and work are fuelled by a passion for helping others discover their inner strength, purpose, and resilience.

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Kim Bremner (MA, RCT-C)

I work with adults navigating trauma, childhood wounds, anxiety, depression, and addiction. My approach draws from Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy and Internal Family Systems to help clients reconnect with and heal those deep inner parts of themselves carrying pain. My ability to hold space for others comes not only from training but also from lived experience. Healing doesn’t require perfection, just the courage to begin. You’re not broken; you’re carrying pain that deserves care and compassion.

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Tyler Hoyt

Tyler is a Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist (RMFT). He obtained his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and is passionate about helping individuals, couples, and families find peace, hope, and healing. Although his training is in marriage and family therapy, he equally enjoys working with individuals facing varying mental health, career, and interpersonal problems. Learn more about Tyler on the staff page of our website.

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Nkechinyere (NK) is a Halifax-based therapist with over seven years of experience in mental health, addictions, and community support, including working with individuals living with concurrent disorders. Her diverse background spans hospital, clinic, and private practice settings both in Canada and Nigeria. Originally from Nigeria, she brings a culturally sensitive and inclusive approach to her work.

She recently completed a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University and holds a Graduate Certificate in Concurrent Disorders (Mental Health and Addictions) from Mohawk College. She also holds a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from Windsor University School of Medicine in St. Kitts and Nevis.

NK provides individual, family, and couples counselling, with a focus on anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, concurrent disorders, family conflict, and divorce/separation support. Her trauma-informed, integrative approach draws from evidence-based modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Person-Centered Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, with a strong emphasis on culturally responsive and strengths-based practice.

She is a registered member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) and the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists (NSCCT).

NK currently offers both in-person and virtual sessions. Outside of her clinical work, she enjoys cooking, singing, and watching movies.

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After completing her undergraduate degree at Saint Mary’s University and Mount Saint Vincent University, Lori decided to pursue the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP) program at Yorkville University. She will offering in-person and virtual sessions at our office in Bedford to adults and teens (age 13 and up) with a focus on families couples, and parenting support. ,

Lori considers it a privilege to have offered mental health support over the the past 20 years. Throughout her career, she has been a part of the intervention team at the IWK as an Early Interventionist and Residential Counsellor, a community support worker with Family and Children Services, Hants County, as well as a Youth Worker with the NS Youth Detention Centre. Lori believes in offering an integrative approach to therapy, holding the sacred space that each client has a unique capacity to overcome the myriad of difficulties they are facing.

Lori is a compassionate and skilled clinician in training and aims to help you identify and build upon your personal strengths, values, and beliefs to better navigate life’s challenges and achieve your goals.

Lori is looking forward to meeting you as you take this next step into your healing journey!

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Natalie works with adults and couples who are battling anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship stress, self-esteem, life transitions, and perinatal mental health issues. She also works with school-age children and their parents/guardians to assist in working through behaviour struggles, emotional dysregulation, and major life transitions. She also has a sweet spot for parents struggling with postpartum mental illness. Her primary goal with each client is to get to know them, their unique situation, and formulate a plan together to move forward in a way that builds resilience.

Natalie likes to say that her mission when you begin counselling with her is to make you feel comfortable. Sessions should always feel like a conversation, never an interrogation. She often uses humour and works hard to build rapport with her clients. Where appropriate she will challenge you, but she will always work with you at the pace you are ready for.

Natalie completed her Master of Arts in Professional Counselling through Liberty University and graduated in 2017. Her undergrad also contained a Christian Counselling focus, so she is open to spiritual conversations with clients who wish to bring that into their counselling sessions.

Natalie has been married for 10 years and has two young boys. She is deep in the busy parent stage, so primary hobby right now is taking care of her children. When she gets a moment to herself she loves to read a good book, nap, bake, or binge her favourite sitcoms and reality shows. Natalie is now accepting new clients (kids, teens, couples, individuals, families) for either in person or virtual sessions.

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Mark has over 5 years of experience in the field of mental health including 2.5 years experience as a registered psychotherapist in the UK. He holds an MSc in Counselling & Psychotherapy and additional certification in Emotion-Focused Therapy. His experience includes providing counselling/psychotherapy to various age groups including adolescents and adults, in a variety of settings.

Before moving to Nova Scotia, he led the provision of counselling and psychotherapy to young people and adolescents in a high school. He also provided counselling to those in palliative care and to bereaved family members.

He believes that people have within themselves the possibility of finding better strategies by which to live more functional and fulfilling lives. He aims to help clients to locate and use their own resource to, resolve problems and difficulties and to find more satisfying ways of managing their lives.

He aims to empower positive physical, mental, emotional and spiritual development for individuals utilizing emotion focused and compassion based approaches. In particular, he specializes in helping to free clients from difficult or painful emotions, thoughts, beliefs or behaviours that are holding them back in their lives.

He offers a balance between an open, exploratory approach and specific therapeutic interventions to suit your needs and processing style. He believes in transparent, evidence-based practice and encourages regular dialogue around the therapeutic work, adjusting his approach as needed.

Mark also works with couples experiencing distress, disconnection, or recurring patterns of conflict. His approach is grounded in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, with additional strategies drawn from the Gottman Method. He helps partners make sense of their interactional patterns and the emotional needs beneath them — often linked to core concerns around connection, security, and identity. He is passionate about supporting couples in strengthening their bond and improving how they relate to one another.

Mark is currently accepting new clients for individual or couples counselling for either in person or virtual sessions.

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Sheryl is a counseling practicum student currently completing the academic portion of her Master’s in Counselling and Psychology at Yorkville University. She previously graduated from Saint Mary’s University with a Bachelor of Science, Honours Psychology. With a passion for mental health advocacy, particularly for children and teens, Sheryl is dedicated to helping young people navigate challenges and build resilience.

Born in India and having lived in Halifax with her family since the age of three, Sheryl has been shaped by the influence of both Indian and Canadian cultures. This unique background has given her a deep understanding of cultural differences, and she strives to create a culturally sensitive and inclusive space for clients of all backgrounds.

Sheryl has hands-on experience in teaching piano, babysitting, and volunteering with various children’s activities. She has spent the last four years as the Youth Director at her church, where she has developed strong connections with teenagers and fostered a supportive environment. This role has been a key influence in her drive to pursue a career in counseling.

Sheryl believes that therapy is a collaborative process between the client and therapist. She is eager to learn and gain practical experience in the field, aiming to create an environment where clients feel safe, heard, and empowered to grow. Sheryl is excited to continue developing her skills and contribute positively to the mental health field.

In her free time, Sheryl enjoys baking, reading, watching movies, travelling, and spending time with friends and family.

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Hali

is in training to become a certified therapy dog. She is a sweet, calm, medium size Goldador (golden/lab retriever mix). She has been blessing clients with her calm demeanour and gentle spirit since she was 5 months old. Typically, she is in the counselling room with Tyler, but she is available to all clients and counsellors upon request.

You cannot book a session with Hali through this portal. Please contact your counsellor if you would like her in your next session!

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Larissa has spent the last eight years passionately developing her skills in the helping profession. With a trauma informed approach, Larissa meets clients where they are, recognizes their skills, and supports their goals to help them make changes.

Completing a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Psychology and Sociology at Mount Allison University laid the groundwork for a Bachelor of Social Work from St. Thomas University. Afterward, she worked for a non-profit agency in rural Cape Breton supporting under-serviced youth and honed her therapeutic skills providing services to children, youth, adults, and couples for five years.

While working full time, Larissa completed an accelerated Master of Social Work through Dalhousie University. Ready to focus on her clinical skills, Larissa transitioned to the Health Authority working in two First Nation communities as an Adult Mental Health Clinician. In that role, she was able to strengthen her approaches in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Behavioural Activation, Motivational Interviewing, and Suicide Interventions.

Larissa recognizes the privilege of working with all people but particularly enjoys working with couples to address communication and problem solving issues. Using authenticity, care, and humour, she is able to make her clients feel comfortable opening up and problem solving together.

Larissa has been happily married for over five years, she enjoys making pottery, doing photography, and playing ultimate frisbee. In the summer, you can find her wading into the nearest body of water. Originally from Sussex, New Brunswick, she has called Antigonish home for most of the last decade. Larissa is currently accepting clients online for tele-health appointments.

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