Brandon
Robbins
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
​Brandon Robbins is a Two-Spirited man providing counselling services on the traditional territory of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), and Wyomilth (Esquimalt) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation
Brandon is Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) His culture of origin stems from Turtle clans of both Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway)
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Brandon Is a Lifestyle Counsellor, specializing in Grief, Loss and Recovery. Armed with a Professional Counselling and Life Coaching diploma from Rhodes Wellness College in Vancouver. Before this, Brandon served in the Royal Canadian Navy for 20 years. With the help of his shipmates and by listening to their troubles, he discovered his calling, fueling his passion for pursuing wellness as a career goal.
Brandon has gained Registered Therapeutic Counsellor certification with the Association of Cooperation Counselling Therapists of Canada. Brandon is currently based in Victoria BC, where he continues to work to help others in his community navigate their own lifestyle choices and those challenges impact their way of life. Even exploring the challenges that come from the lack of choice, and the impact of their way of life.
Supporting your Road to Recovery and the way you Grieve.
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My General Practice
I am building a practice geared toward growing lifestyle practices. What is happening in your life where you are unable to intregrate into the whole of your life. Perhaps you practice an alternate lifestyle which is hard for others to quantify, accept or condone. The challenges that occur when trying to keep these sectors separate to avoids judgment and living more authentically. Together we explore these challenges and design a means to navigate these emotions. Create a frame work for you to work in to resolve what these situations, being mindful of what these situations mean. Building a different relationship with yourself by exploring your needs.
A Holistic Approach
This approach allows you to assess your challenges. How do those challenges affect your emotional state? How do those feelings affect your thoughts, beliefs and overall mental state? Likewise, the thoughts and beliefs that affect your emotional state. Do these states influence and affect your body? And finally, what do you make it mean?
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This rounded approach helps you explore your challenges uniquely, allowing you to process your experiences better. Using evidence-based modality, we explore your needs and how to navigate and unpack these challenges in your past and present.
The modalities I use are:
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Narrative Therapy
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​ Internal Family Systems​
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Mindfulness
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Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
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Grief & Loss
​Grief exists in all aspect of life,
It often reveals what's important, because those supports, those energies, that stability, that safety isn't there anymore.
Those Losses may be:
Divorce: The Ending of Relationships
Dismissal: The Loss of Career Stability
Desertions:The Loss in Support with Family and Friends, Acquaintances
Death: Loss of loved ones and important figures
​ Drugs : Loss due to Addiction
Duty : Loss due to Career Commitment
Diagnosis : Loss caused of illness and depreciation of Quality of Life
The work we do together, acknowledges and moves through change. Identifies needs and mourn those situations. How do you do that in a way that best serves you. Moving through those emotions that need to be acknowledged and expressed in a healthy way for you to move forward into a new chapter.
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Addiction & Recovery
A Harm Reduction Approach
For this I meet you where you are at, everyone's road to recovery is different.
I do what I can to provide safety and acceptance for those who have relapsed, normalizing it as part of the road to recovery.
Creating a program, exploring paths and triggers using Narrative Therapy/IFS to better understand your relationship with your addiction.
Exploring your needs for recovery - Prioritizing you
~12 Steps Informed ~
Cultural Support
There are times when Talk Therapies are not enough to deal with ones grief. Actions are required, creating ceremony around the things you are working with. Together we design a ceremony, to help you with those things.
Ceremony I have lead:
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Hair Cutting
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Smoke Clearing (Smudging)
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Cord Cutting
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Sending Prayers
Cultural Support in groups
Hosting Talking Circles centered on the 7 great Laws and other power words
These circles allow participants to explore these teachings, define them and share experiences. Growing their personal understanding, as they learn to model them in their daily life.
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In Person and Online Sessions Available