Shelley Klammer - Licensed Professional Counsellor

About Shelley

I am a registered therapist with a strength for coaching women to express their deeper feelings and human needs through art and creative practices. Having struggled through passages of grief, loss and depression myself, I have had many creative awakenings around how to bring creative aliveness into various areas of life, such as healthcare, end of life, the justice system and with women who are struggling with grief, loss, depression and a lack of purpose and direction. On this site and through my services I invite you to find your strength and aliveness and unique self-expression as a woman.

 

My creative own aliveness awakened during a period of personal loss and my approach as a coach and a therapist is transpersonal/spiritual as a result. Fourteen years ago when I lost five close family members and went through a divorce in the period of a year I had no choice but to draw on the larger spiritual forces of life to learn how to cope with my own staggering feelings of grief and loss. My journey has been about learning how to find my strength as a parent, and as a partner in relationship, and as a woman who has needed to learn how to take emotional, physical and spiritual care of myself in the world.

 

And that time in my life was marked with heightened awareness and intense creative awakenings. I subsequently chose to take my counselling training in Transpersonal Psychology. I completed my three year counsellor training program in Applied Transpersonal Psychology and am a registered therapist (#4086) with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association.

 

I have dedicated my life to finding creative aliveness, love and meaning in the midst of loss, grief, and loss of purpose and life direction. I currently work in a large art studio community for people at the end of life and with dementia and physical challenges. Presently I work with elderly veterans, most who have never painted or created much in their lives, given the need to earn a living and live a practical life. I have had the pleasure for the past five years to witness artist and creators being born at ages of 80 and 90. Daily I witness the creative process and self-discovery at the end of life and I understand that it is never too late to change and become creatively alive. 

 

I live and love in Port Moody BC, just outside of Vancouver Canada with my partner Ondrea and my 16 year old daughter Hadley. Much of what I have discovered about the creative underpinnings of the human psyche and soul has been supported and inspired by my partner Ondrea, who is a brilliant counsellor, creator and a cutting edge emotional, psychological and spiritual thinker. To learn more about my personal journey to authenticity you can read more here.