Rachel Bennett
Rachel Bennett is a Registered Psychotherapist and Canadian Certified Counsellor who takes an eco-existential, somatic, and attachment-based approach to therapy, helping clients explore meaning, connection, and personal growth through their mind, body, and relationships. She believes healing isn’t about finding the “right” answers but about constructing meaning that feels true in the present moment. Having lived across Canada and around the world, Rachel deeply values human connection and the power of open, honest conversations. Clients can expect a compassionate space where they can sit with difficult emotions, process them through both thought and body, and experience profound personal growth. With a special interest in eco-existential psychotherapy and the transformative power of emotional processing, she helps clients navigate life’s big questions with curiosity and self-compassion. If you're ready to explore your journey in a meaningful way, Rachel welcomes you to connect.
- Living as a late-identified neurodivergent person - Growing up feeling “too much” and “not enough” at the same time, without language for why. Learning to stop fixing myself and instead build a life that actually fits my nervous system, creativity, and energy.
- Being a lifelong misfit - Never quite fitting dominant cultural expectations around productivity, emotion, or success. Deep empathy for those who feel out of place, overly sensitive, resistant to hustle culture, or quietly rebellious beneath the surface.
- Navigating intense emotional worlds and attachment wounds - Firsthand experience with emotional sensitivity, relational pain, and the complexity of attachment patterns—along with a deep awareness of the stigma that can surround certain diagnoses and why nuance matters more than labels.
- Living with big existential and spiritual questions - Years spent overthinking meaning, purpose, identity, and belonging. Finding steadiness not through answers, but through learning how to live well inside uncertainty, paradox, and change.
- Reclaiming relationship with nature, creativity, and the body - Growing up (a 90s kid) deeply connected to the natural world, losing that connection through screens and hustle culture, and later rediscovering it as essential to mental health, regulation, and aliveness.
- Growing up—and now parenting—inside a blended family system - Firsthand experience with complexity, rupture, repair, and cycle-breaking across generations, with a deep respect for how family systems shape our inner worlds.
- Holding a decolonizing and systems-aware lens - An understanding that many struggles labeled as “personal” are shaped by broader systems—colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy—and that healing often involves unlearning internalized narratives of worth, productivity, and belonging.
- Developing a personal, embodied spiritual practice - Beginning with a conscious break from Catholic socialization and evolving into a self-directed spiritual path rooted in nature as guide and teacher. Learning to trust the body, imagination, and lived experience through practices that actually work for me—such as symbolism, mythology, tarot, and astrology—without dogma, hierarchy, or bypassing.
- White settler with mixed European ancestry, and I live and practice on Indigenous land (unceded Anishinaabe territory). I am currently on an ongoing path of unlearning colonial mindsets and examining how systems of colonialism and privilege shape identity, mental health, and helping relationships. I approach this work with humility, accountability, and a commitment to truth, reconciliation, and continued learning rather than arrival or expertise.
Expertise
Areas of Focus
- Deep thinkers and emotionally attuned people
- Burnt out, high-functioning, or chronically overwhelmed.
- Neurodivergent (diagnosed or self-identified) or highly sensitive.
- “Misfits” who have never quite felt at home in dominant culture.
- Caregivers, cycle-breakers, and people doing generational healing.
- People navigating attachment wounds or relational patterns.
- Creatives, intuitive, witchy, or spiritually curious.
- Those questioning identity, meaning, or direction during life transitions.
- You’re thoughtful, self-aware, and tired of talking about your feelings without feeling real change.
- You feel burnt out, emotionally overloaded, or stuck in cycles of overthinking and self-criticism.
- You want therapy that includes the body, nervous system, and lived experience—not just insight.
- You’re exploring attachment patterns, relational wounds, or why certain dynamics keep repeating.
- You identify as neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or as someone who has always felt a bit out of place.
- You’re drawn to depth work, shadow work, or making sense of the parts of you that feel contradictory or hidden.
- You’re navigating existential or spiritual questions and want space to explore meaning without dogma.
- You’re open to creativity, symbolism, or nature-informed approaches when words fall short.
- You’re drawn to symbolism, mysticism, or “witchy” ways of making meaning—such as tarot, astrology, mythology, or archetypes—and would welcome these as part of therapy.
- You want therapy that honours both personal healing and the impact of larger systems on your life.
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Education
Athabasca University
Masters of Counselling Psychology
2022
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Diploma in Social Service Work (for Immigrants and Refugees)
2017
University of Northern British Columbia
Bachelors of Anthropology
2012
Certifications
Somatic Experiencing International
Somatic Experiencing (Beginner 1, 2 and 3 Modules)
80+ Hours (Training and Supervision)
2024
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Booking FAQ
First Session charges each session directly to your credit card. Once each session occurs, and your card is charged, you will receive a PDF receipt to your email with all of the details you will need to get reimbursed (therapist name, license/designation, license number, address, etc). You can then submit the receipt to your insurance company for reimbursement if you have coverage.
We always recommend you check with your insurance provider to confirm what coverage you have.
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