Terri Scallon
Senior Counsellor
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Terri is a compassionate and non-judgmental counsellor with extensive experience supporting individuals who have faced trauma, cycles of violence, and addiction recovery. She brings warmth, openness, and a trauma-informed approach to help clients navigate life’s challenges and grow their strengths. With professional experience as a counsellor and spiritual director in prisons and hospitals, a Professional-in-Residence at the Hazelden/Betty Ford Clinic, and work with individuals in recovery, Terri values the trust her clients place in her.
Her therapeutic expertise includes training in CBT, DBT, individual and family trauma, addictions, and Family Systems therapies, offering depth, wisdom, and flexibility in her work. She is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and Certified Family Trauma Professional, providing care to individuals, couples, and families.
Terri offers online sessions exclusively. In addition to her counselling practice, Terri co-owns Listening Horse Ranch, where she integrates her role as a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Certified Play Therapist to provide Equine Facilitated Therapy, helping clients find healing and growth through connection with horses.
TERRI SPECIALIZES IN: Terri specializes in individual, family, and couples therapy, as well as therapy with teens, and supports those who have experienced or witnessed family violence, criminal acts, or any form of violence; she also works with trauma-related conditions such as PTSD, C-PTSD, and DSD, and helps clients navigate life transitions, grief, aging, and explore the meaning of life.
Services
- Individual Counselling
- Child/Youth Counselling
- Couples/Relationship Counselling
- Family Counselling
Ages Served
- Ages 14 +
Languages Offered
- English
Support Topics
- Abuse (childhood abuse, domestic abuse, sexual abuse)
- Adapting to lifestyle changes and aging
- Addressing loneliness and isolation
- Addictions (drug and/or alcohol)
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Authentic Self-Discovery: Unmasking Who You Truly Are
- Bereavement
- Body positivity
- Building resilience in later life
- Career guidance
- Co-dependency
- Complex Trauma / C-PTSD
- Coping skills
- Coping with health changes
- Dementia diagnosis and support
- Depression
- Discovering Purpose and Meaning in Life
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Facing end-of-life issues
- Family conflict
- Family dynamics
- Family of origin issues
- First responders’ mental health
- Gender identity
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Life coaching
- Life management issues
- Life transitions
- Loss
- Managing grief and bereavement
- Marital discord
- Meditation
- Navigating family and caregiver relationships
- Non-ordinary experience integration (e.g., spiritual, extraordinary experiences)
- Overcoming phobias, such as fear of death
- Parent-teen mediation
- Peer relationships
- Rehabilitation from trauma
- Relationship and marriage conflict
- Self-esteem issues
- Sexualized violence
- Spirituality (non-emergency spiritual issues)
- Trauma and PTSD
- Transitioning into retirement
- Youth Mental Health
Therapeutic Approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment Theory
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Complex Trauma Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Nature Therapy
- Polyvagal Theory
- Psychodynamic Approach
- Relational Therapy
- Self-Compassion Therapy
- Sensorimotor Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)