Rebuilding Connection in Your Relationship
Virtual & In-Person Somatic, Trauma-Informed Counselling in Comox Valley, BC
When You Care About Each Other but Still Feel Stuck
Most couples do not struggle because they do not care. They struggle because their nervous systems are caught in patterns of protection, reactivity, and disconnection.
You may find yourselves having the same arguments, feeling misunderstood, walking on eggshells, or slowly drifting apart. Even when you want to communicate differently, your bodies and emotions may move faster than your intentions.
Couples therapy at B-rooted offers a gentle, body-based and trauma-informed way to understand what is happening beneath the conflict. We help you slow things down, build safety, and create new ways of relating that feel more secure and connected.
How Relationship Struggles Might Be Showing Up for You:
Repeating arguments that never seem to resolve
Feeling unheard, criticized, or emotionally distant
Walking on eggshells or avoiding difficult conversations
Strong emotional reactions that feel hard to regulate
Loss of intimacy, closeness, or trust
A sense that you are on different pages or moving in different directions
What Becomes Possible
Our approach to couples therapy is somatic and trauma-informed. We focus on helping each partner feel safer in their body and in the relationship so that real communication and repair can happen.
As safety and regulation increase, defensive patterns soften. You become more able to hear each other, respond with care, and work through challenges together rather than against each other.
More Emotional Safety
You begin to feel safer being open and vulnerable with each other without fear of attack, withdrawal, or escalation.
Less Reactivity and Defensiveness
Conflicts feel less intense and less personal. It becomes easier to stay present and curious rather than reactive.
Clearer and Kinder Communication
You are more able to express needs, feelings, and boundaries in ways that can be heard and received.
Deeper Connection and Intimacy
Moments of closeness, warmth, and understanding become more frequent and more accessible.
Greater Sense of Team and Trust
You feel more like you are on the same side, working together with shared care and intention.
Meet the Team
Jervais Dionne
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC)
Virtual Only
Accepting new clients
About Jervais
I work with people who are tired of surviving—people who know something needs to shift but aren't sure where to start. Using an integrative blend of somatic therapy, trauma-informed counselling, and nervous system education, I help people move out of chronic survival mode and back into themselves.
Patty Rooney
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC)
Virtual & In-Person
Accepting new clients
About Patty
I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada (ACCT). I believe every individual has something unique and valuable to offer the world. By embarking on a healing journey, we can reconnect with our essence. I hold an unwavering belief in each person’s inherent worth and capacity for growth.
Amy Creech
Somatic Practitioner
Intern (M.A.)
Virtual & In-Person
Accepting new clients
About Amy
I am a student earning my MA in Integrative Psychology. My background is in social work and yoga. I completed my Somatic Practitioner training in 2025. I am passionate about weaving the body into therapy and learning to listen to our inner compass through felt sense.
Joslyn Kilborn
Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC)
Therapist
Virtual & In-Person
Accepting new clients
About Joslyn
I am a Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC) with an MA in Psychotherapy and Spirituality. My approach is body-led and leans heavily on the gifts of the embodied imagination as a tool of inquiry. I believe in the human adventure, that people are processes, life takes practice and that our suffering has the opportunity to transform us.
Jennifer Shillington
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
Founder & Therapist
Virtual Only
Not accepting new clients
About Jennifer
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with an M.A in Counselling and Spirituality completed in 2012. I am the founder and vision behind B-rooted Counselling. The compass that guides my work is the notion that we are our own healers and therefore sovereign agents in our innate healing.
Why B-rooted Somatic Therapy?
We offer a holistic, somatic approach to therapy that gently supports the healing of your mind, body, and spirit. Rooted in compassion and curiosity, our work honours your body’s natural wisdom and capacity to heal—guiding you back to a place of calm, connection, and inner balance.
Together, we’ll explore the patterns that may be keeping you stuck, and create space for your innate resilience, clarity, and wholeness to emerge. This is a journey back to your most embodied, authentic self.
Rooted in your healing.
Grounded in your truth.
Schedule Your Free Consultation
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Session provided virtually throughout Canada
Sessions provided in-person at 3091 - Unit B, Coburn Rd. Courtenay, BC V9N 9N8
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Location
Sessions provided virtually throughout Canada
In-person sessions held at:
3091 - Unit B, Coburn Rd. Courtenay, BC V9N 9N8