https://www.tracywideman.com/about-me daily 0.75 2026-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dca0f9b6e5dda13c2de2ee0/1574295186241-8DY7BID54VBTJ2B3ZUIZ/tracywideman_profile.jpg About Me - About Me My life experiences and training have shaped an awareness of how past harms, social conditions, family histories, and difficult experiences can shape the stories people carry about themselves and their lives. When I was younger, I often felt like my story had already been written before I had the chance to fully live it. Over time, I found myself questioning some of the pathways that were expected of me and trying to make sense of what it meant to live more honestly and fully within the realities of my life. This experience continues to inform how I approach counselling. I carry a deep respect for the complexity of being human and for the many ways people learn to survive, adapt, protect themselves, and care for others. Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, caring individuals who have spent significant parts of their lives carrying emotional responsibility, navigating uncertainty, or trying to hold things together for others. I am interested in the places where inner emotional life intersects with the broader realities that shape us — including relationships, family histories, culture, systems, work, spirituality, identity, grief and social conditions. At times, suffering is deeply personal. At other times, it is connected to larger structures and experiences of marginalization, exclusion, instability, or disconnection. Often, it is both. I do not approach counselling from the perspective that people can simply think their way into a different life or overcome suffering through self-improvement alone. Instead, I see counselling as a space to slow down, become more honest about what is happening, develop a deeper relationship with oneself, and explore what becomes possible within the realities people are navigating. I bring non-judgement, curiosity, humour, and thoughtfulness to the more difficult and uncertain parts of human experience. I am interested in supporting connection — to self, to others, to creativity, to community, and to ways of living that feel more alive and meaningful. I feel comfortable working in the in-between spaces of life and engaging with uncertainty, contradiction, grief, and the unknown. I also honour the spiritual dimension of human experience, particularly when this is meaningful to the people I work with. As a practicing artist, creativity plays an important role in my life and work. I value humour deeply as well. Humour can offer relief, perspective, connection, and another way of relating to pain and difficulty. As a white settler living on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, I continue to reflect on how colonialism, power, privilege, and social structures shape both personal and collective experience. My studies in Kenya and work in Sudan expanded my understanding of interconnectedness, culture, inequity, and the importance of approaching people’s lives with humility and openness. I strive to create a counselling space that is thoughtful, respectful, and welcoming of diverse experiences, identities, relationships, and ways of being. I am attentive to power dynamics and the realities faced by people navigating barriers connected to race, gender, sexuality, disability, religion, culture, and social location. I welcome working with people across a range of identities, relationship structures, and spiritual orientations. Outside of my counselling practice, I have spent more than 25 years working in equity, diversity, leadership, and organizational change roles within the BC public sector, non-profit sector, and post-secondary education. This experience continues to shape my understanding of how organizational structures, power dynamics, workplace cultures, and social systems can deeply influence people’s emotional wellbeing, relationships, and sense of self. ——————————————————— I am both a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), and hold a Master of Arts in Psychotherapy and Spirituality from St. Stephen’s College in Edmonton, Alberta. https://www.tracywideman.com/services daily 0.75 2026-05-28 https://www.tracywideman.com/contact-us daily 0.75 2020-04-22 https://www.tracywideman.com/home daily 1.0 2026-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dca0f9b6e5dda13c2de2ee0/1573869265758-PJIA8V16B9H23XDBCMC7/tracywideman_profile2.jpg Home - “I support people to re-imagine their stories and write new life chapters.” https://www.tracywideman.com/faq daily 0.75 2026-03-26 https://www.tracywideman.com/book-now daily 0.75 2026-03-26