TOTALITY COUNSELLING

At Totality Counselling, we provide individual and family therapy both through teletherapy and in our comfortable North Burnaby office. Joel offers a safe, compassionate, and client-centered space, whether in one-on-one sessions, family sessions or in the groups and programs he leads. We invite you to book a free consultation to explore how we can support your journey to wellness. Our expert guidance combines education, promotion of self-awareness, building of your inner resources, utilizing cutting-edge evidence-based techniques to help you navigate your challenges and create a more fulfilling life.

Joel Todd is currently accepting new clients

Joel Todd of Totality Counselling

Hey there, I’m Joel Todd, a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) based in Burnaby, British Columbia. I’m passionate about helping clients transform their lives for the better, drawing on a trauma-informed mindset and the most cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to counselling.

For much of my life, I lived primarily for others, never considering my own desires. Like many of my clients, I struggled with anxiety, overwhelm, and uncertainty. My journey through these challenges led me to the three-year Clearmind Practitioner program, where I had the opportunity to do my own deep therapeutic work while gaining a highly applicable real-world education. I firmly believe that a counsellor who has done their own “work” can guide clients to greater depths of emotional healing. I continuously educate myself and confront my own challenges, striving to bring the best of myself to every session.

I would love to connect with you and explore how I can help you overcome your challenges and create the fulfilling life you deserve.

Approaches and Modalities of Therapy

AEDP

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) incorporates many other modalities of therapy, including Somatic, Attachment-Based, Psychodrama, Positive Neuroplasticity. AEDP is Experiential and Relational empowering it to bring lasting transformation.

Family Systems

Bowen Family Systems, a systemic therapy, enables clients to becoming aware of the impacts that growing up in the family environment had on them. It provides the informational context and emotional realizations that can free clients from their learned subconscious behaviors that keep them stuck.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) / Parts Work

Parts work therapy helps clients identify and connect with different “parts” of psyche, such as the inner critic or wounded child, to foster self-awareness and healing. By understanding and integrating these parts, clients can resolve internal conflicts, reduce emotional distress, freeing up their inner resources.

Somatic Therapy

Somatic therapy mixed with Nervous System based therapy a “bottom up” approach therapy that connects us to the difficult and wonderful bodily experiences felt through our nervous systems. This felt or bottom up approach to therapy has been a game-changer to therapy and transformation.

Additional Modalities

I work with the other approach’s to therapy such as Connect Parent, Attachment-Based, Person-Centered, and Transpersonal Therapy. As people we are influenced by many different aspects of our lives. I find being familiar with different therapies enables me to meet each client in the way that is best for them.