Kelowna Anxiety and Depression Counselling
When life feels heavy, stuck, or like too much — you don’t have to carry it alone.
Speaking to someone is the first step in empowering yourself.
When Your Mind Won’t Slow Down — or You Can’t Get Out of Bed
Anxiety and depression don’t always show up the way we expect. Sometimes they whisper. Sometimes they roar. Either way, they make it hard to feel like yourself.
At Empowered Solutions, we offer Kelowna anxiety counselling and depression counselling that’s compassionate, trauma-informed, and tailored to the way you actually experience the world — not a checklist of symptoms.
You don’t have to feel broken to ask for help. You just have to be tired of doing this alone.
How Anxiety and Depression Might Be Showing Up For You
You may be:
Living in your head with racing thoughts and worst-case scenarios
Overthinking every decision, replaying every conversation
Snapping at loved ones — then feeling guilt and shame
Struggling to get out of bed, even when you’ve slept for hours
Feeling numb, irritable, exhausted, or like you're on autopilot
Questioning your worth, your direction, or your ability to cope
This isn’t weakness. It’s your nervous system waving a red flag — and it’s trying to protect you.
How Counselling Helps
In our work together, you’ll gain tools and insight to navigate the emotional fog — and slowly return to yourself.
Understanding the root of your emotional patterns and self-talk
Identifying nervous system states (fight/flight/freeze/fawn)
Exploring trauma-informed frameworks that respect your story
Processing feelings without judgment
Building routines, boundaries, and habits that support healing
Learning self-regulation tools you can actually use in real life
Feeling seen, safe, and understood — maybe for the first time
You Might Also Be Interested In
EMDR Therapy – for deeper trauma processing using eye movement
PTSD Counselling – for processing trauma that feels stuck in your body or nervous system
Self-Esteem Counselling – to rebuild confidence after trauma or emotional neglect
In-Person or Online Counselling in Kelowna
We offer private, supportive sessions at our Kelowna office in the Lower Mission — or online for clients across British Columbia. No matter how you show up, you’ll be met with respect, warmth, and zero pressure.
Heart to Heart with Kim
“When someone comes to me and says, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong, I just feel off,’ I know exactly what they mean.
Anxiety and depression rarely show up the way we expect. It’s not always panic attacks or tears. Sometimes it’s a quiet, persistent feeling of not being yourself. Sometimes it’s numbness. Sometimes it’s pressure to hold it all together — with no one noticing how hard that really is.
— Kimberly Castle, M.T.C, R.C.S
Therapy That Works With Your Whole System — Not Just Your Thoughts
As a Kelowna counsellor each member of our team will help you identify problematic patterns in thinking that aren’t serving you, assist in build new skills and help you understand how your brain and nervous system function together to help you move through anxiety and depression. We offer a positive relationship where you feel heard, understood, and accepted which will help you almost immediately in gaining control over your anxiety and depression.
As we discover through research that trauma and anxious related challenges show up in various ways, we offer a somatic approach to working through those challenges. Your body responds to trauma on a physiological level and discovering ways to move through those responses is key to manoeuvring through trauma.
Kimberly is currently in training as a Somatic Experiencing (SE) practitioner, which is a body oriented therapeutic approach. SE aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become more resilient.
Somatic Experiencing was developed by Dr. Peter Levine, Ph.D. and is based on the ethological observation that animals in the wild utilize innate mechanisms which regulate and neutralize the high levels of arousal associated with defensive survival behaviours. As Dr. Levine has pointed out, “Trauma originates as a response in the nervous system and does not originate in an event. Trauma is in the nervous system, not in the event.”
As Dr. Levine has noted, “Trauma is an internal straitjacket created when a devastating moment is frozen in time. It stifles the unfolding of being and strangles our attempts to move forward with our lives. It disconnects us from ourselves, others, nature, and spirit. When overwhelmed by threat, we are frozen in fear, as though our instinctive survival energies were ‘all dressed up with no place to go.”
Although humans possess regulatory mechanisms virtually identical to those in animals, these systems are often overridden by neo-cortical inhibition, that is our “rational mind”. This neo-cortical restraint leads to the formation of a constellation of symptoms, such as depression, irritability, decreased concentration, loss of interest, insomnia, emotionally overwhelmed, loss of a sense of the future/hopelessness, shame and worthlessness, few or no memories, nightmares/flashbacks, hypervigilance/mistrust, anxiety/panic attacks, chronic pain/headaches, substance abuse, eating disorders, feeling unreal or out of body, self-destructive behaviour and a loss sense of “who I am”.
Get Support for Anxiety and Depression — Without Shame
Whether you're holding it together for everyone else, or quietly falling apart behind the scenes — you're not alone, and you’re not weak.
You’re human. And healing is possible.
Book Your Kelowna Counselling Session
In-person in Lower Mission or Online across BC