deanna smith geiger, MMFT, RMFT

My clients are often:

  • Recovering from trauma

  • Grieving

  • Seeking to build coping strategies and distress tolerance

  • Gaining self compassion

  • Negotiating boundaries at home, work or in a friendship

  • Navigating a major life transition

  • Exploring identity, personal growth and change

what clients get from me:

  • Unconditional positive regard, non judgement, and acceptance

  • Empathy, compassion and deep listening to explore change and growth

  • A safe environment to work through difficulties

  • Psycho-education about effective healthy relationships, trauma recovery, and self

    compassion, and mindfulness

  • Strategies for building more distress tolerance, including Auricular Acupuncture

  • Gentle challenges 

 

deanna’s essential beliefs

Change is possible and grows from a healing therapeutic relationship

Clients are the experts of their lives

Being heard is significant to making change

Strength based approach where small changes are valued and celebrated

Painful pasts may take time and safety to share

Theories and models that inform my work include:

  • Attachment theory

  • Solution Focused Theory

  • Internal Family systems

  • Narrative Theory

  • Self Compassion Theory

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Auricular Acupuncture

 
 

Outside the Office


I love hanging out with my 2 Australian sheep dogs, gardening and doing yoga on my deck

I enjoy hanging out with my 2 young grandchildren and Cooking and Barbequing with my partner

My favourite past time is quiet time on my deck watching the river flow by with a good book.

I have recently retired after 30 years of working in an agency that focuses on crisis intervention and trauma recovery

 
 

RATES & AVAILABILITY

$120 per session (GST included)

Deanna sees clients virtually and in-person at our Selkirk and Beausejour offices through weekday daytimes