Laura Todd, MC, RCC
REGISTERED CLINICAL COUNSELLOR #25528
Accepting new clients at our OAK BAY location
To book:
Book online (days, evenings, and Saturdays)
Direct billing is available with some major providers at this time, but not yet with Pacific Blue Cross or Medavie Blue Cross
About Laura:
I am a Master’s-level Registered Clinical Counsellor with four years of counselling experience, offering individual therapy for adults age 18+.
My therapeutic approach is shaped by a decade working as a funeral director, supporting people through acute grief, and undergraduate education in both philosophy and justice studies.
I have clinical experience in substance use, trauma, and complex mental health, supporting individuals facing these challenges as well as family members caring for loved ones through them.
In my practice, I work with adults navigating significant life transitions, questions of identity, meaning and purpose, relationship struggles, grief, depression, ADHD, and substance use concerns. I draw on a wealth of diverse life experience that informs my understanding of human complexity.
My approach is primarily client-centred and anti-oppressive, grounded in self-compassion. I integrate existential therapy, parts work, and values-based exploration alongside narrative and acceptance-based frameworks.
I strive to offer a welcoming space for people of all identities and backgrounds, including those navigating unconventional paths or complex connections to self and society.
I care about how your relationship with yourself was shaped, what burdens or beliefs have complicated it, and how it might shift to improve your quality of life. I’m not here to fix you; I’m here to witness and reflect, to challenge when needed, to help uncover your own insights, and to walk beside you with authenticity and care.
Clients often tell me I help them make sense of what feels overwhelming: exploring patterns, pulling threads together, and distilling complexity into something they can work with. I believe that a compassionate presence can be healing, and I take seriously the privilege of being let into someone’s world.
If you're wrestling with something that feels heavy, isolating, or hard to name, you're not alone. You’re not too much, and you're certainly not broken. It is human to struggle, and it is human to seek connection through that struggle.
I believe we each carry something wise and life-affirming inside us, something that keeps reaching for the light. I would love to help you reclaim your invincible summer.