Kendra Finlayson is passionate about approaching therapy from a client-centered perspective. She is a compassionate, warm, and supportive therapist, who loves to help clients feel and know that the counseling room is their space to be themselves. She understands we all can experience difficult seasons in our lives where we can end up feeling stuck and burdened emotionally, mentally, and relationally. Kendra’s desire is to provide a place where clients can feel heard, gain greater insight and experience healing and change during these seasons.
Kendra works with children, teens, adults, and families. She has experience working with clients who are experiencing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue, self-esteem and body image challenges, trauma, grief, and relationship difficulties. If you are experiencing conflict with your child or teen, she can work with you as a family to resolve these tensions. She enjoys supporting clients through seasons of life transitions so that clients can come to a greater understanding of themselves and their place in the world. For clients for whom faith is important to them, Kendra is passionate about providing space for clients to draw upon their faith as a resource and strength, and to experience healing from spiritual hurt.
When meeting with clients, Kendra believes that it is important to tailor therapy to each individual or family’s needs. She draws from a variety of therapeutic models, including Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Internal Family Systems Therapy, and Play and Art therapy techniques.
Kendra holds a Master of Divinity from Tyndale University with a focus in Clinical Counselling. She is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists and has over 5 years of experience in the psychotherapy field. Prior to completing her education, she worked for a non-profit agency offering compassionate peer support to vulnerable populations looking for emotional, material, and spiritual peer support.
During her spare time, Kendra enjoys spending time with friends and family, and pursuing her favourite hobbies of hiking, pairing a big cup of tea with a book or movie, baking, and playing the piano.