About
Interflections Counselling Therapy:
Annette Mira McLellan MA, CCC, RCT
Annette is deeply compassionate and dedicated both in her role as a therapist and in her everyday life - prioritizing ethical, social justice and environmental commitments every step of the way.
She is grounded, rooted in nature and presence and offers a calm, steady energy that invites reflection and connection, embodying a therapeutic space that feels stable, intentional, and real. She radiates care, compassion, and openness. This tone fosters trust and emotional safety, making others feel seen, heard, held, and genuinely welcomed just as they are.
Annette is professional and takes her role as therapist seriously providing clarity, transparency, competence, and ethical integrity in all she offers to her clients. Her approach reflects a high standard of care while remaining deeply human, balancing expertise with approachability. She offers a unique approach to therapy that is wholistic, inviting a (re)connection to self, each other, and to the more than human world that surrounds us: nature, animals, elements...
Annette is a Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists (NSCCT) as well as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). She holds a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology and a Masters of Arts in Women & Gender Studies.
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Interflections Counselling Therapy
Therapeutic Approach
- Interconnected & Intersectional
- Person/Client Centered
- Systemic Awareness
- Non-Pathologizing
- Trauma-Informed
- Climate Aware
- Integrative
- Feminist
Professional Values
Nature and Soma:
Inviting nature into healing work and encouraging (re)connection with the natural world is
important to my practice as is listening to the physical, bodily
knowledge known as the felt sense or somatic experience.
Collaboration:
Working together, we choose the direction therapy needs to take alongside the interventions and strategies that best fit for you. Because the true expert of your life is none but yourself.
Working together, we choose the direction therapy needs to take alongside the interventions and strategies that best fit for you. Because the true expert of your life is none but yourself.
"I endeavour to learn and grow alongside each of my clients; creating a safe, respectful, non-judgmental, and caring space to support you on your journey."
Respecting the many spectrums of identity and difference, I encounter each person as beautifully unique and recognize that, as a species, our diversity and differences contribute to our collective strength & resilience.
In this work, I embrace humility and acknowledge that there is much I have yet to learn. I also understand that if any one of us is oppressed, none of us are truly free.
Wholistic Understanding:
Holding space for the many layers of influence (familial, political, cultural, etc.) and the many aspects of lived experience (psychological, social/relational, somatic, environmental, etc.) we piece together and build an under-standing that we can grow from and move with.
Holding space for the many layers of influence (familial, political, cultural, etc.) and the many aspects of lived experience (psychological, social/relational, somatic, environmental, etc.) we piece together and build an under-standing that we can grow from and move with.
Interflections Counselling Therapy
Therapeutic Modalities
- Client/Person Centered Therapy (PCT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Integrative Somatic Therapies
- Ecotherapy/Nature Based Therapy (NBT)
- Somatic Internal Family Systems (Parts Work)
- Existential Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Experience & Education
Experience:
I have experience supporting people across the gender spectrum from diverse backgrounds through some of the most challenging times in their lives; through past traumas that continue to affect their present day lives, to present day and everyday life struggles -witnessing and fostering growth and healing both through and on the other side of these difficult times.
My educational background in Women & Gender Studies, as well as many
years spent employed by and volunteering for community and not for
profit organizations, has formed my foundation as a therapist. Some of the organizations I have been involved with are: The Ecology
Action Centre, Adsum for Women & Children, Lailo Farm Sanctuary, North Mountain Animal
Sanctuary, Out of the Cold, Anchor Archive, Inkstorm, Radstorm, Food Not
Bombs, Elderdog, Metro SPCA, Sadlier House Alternative Library.
Education and experience remain at centre for me as a therapist. Ongoing growth as a practitioner in this field is a priority. I continue to learn and grow alongside my clients, through volunteer work in my community as well as through education, self-study and training.
Education:
- MA Counselling Psychology, Yorkville University (2021). Practicum: Second Story Women's Centre
- MA Women & Gender Studies, St. Mary's University (2015). Thesis: Towards a Vegan Eco-Feminist Critical Care Theory: A search for a compassionate, responsible, respectful post humanist paradigm
- BA Women Studies & Sociology, Trent University (2010).
Certificates & Training:
- Nature Based Therapy in Practice (Advanced), Human-Nature Counselling Society (2025)
- Neurobiology of Feeling Safe - Boundaries Course with Jules Taylor Moore/ The Academy of Therapy Wisdom (In Process - 2024)
- Somatic Internal Family Systems Level 1, 2 & 3, The Embody Lab (2023)
- Introduction to Nature Based Therapy, Human-Nature Counselling (2023)
- Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy 60HR Certificate, The Embody Lab (2022)
- Narrative Therapy Foundations Certificate, Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy (2021)
- Existential Well-Being Counselling: A Person Centered Experiential Approach, KU Leuven (Belgium) - EdX (2018)
- Plant Based Nutrition Certificate, Cornell University (2017)