About
Interflections Counselling Therapy
Annette Mira McLellan MA, CCC, RCT
Annette is deeply dedicated in her role as a therapist, in her private therapy practice, in her community and in her everyday life to prioritizing ethical, social justice and environmental commitments with every step she takes.
She is grounded, rooted in nature and offers a calm, steady energy that invites reflection and deep connection, embodying a therapeutic space that feels stable, intentional, and authentic. She radiates care and compassion fostering trust and emotional safety. Those in her presence feel seen, heard, held, and genuinely welcomed just as they are.
Annette upholds transparency, competency, and ethical integrity in all she offers to her clients. She embraces a unique approach to therapy that is wholistic, inviting a (re)connection to self and soma(body) as well as to the more than human world that surrounds us: plants, animals, landscapes.
Annette is a Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists as well as a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She holds a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology and a Masters of Arts in Women & Gender Studies alongside a wealth of experience that has led her here - to become a therapist and an ally in others growth & healing.
Interflections Counselling Therapy
Therapeutic Approach
- Interconnected & Intersectional
- Person/Client Centered
- Systemic Awareness
- Non-Pathologizing
- Trauma-Informed
- Climate Aware
- Integrative
- Feminist
Therapeutic Values
Presence:
Every time I show up for you as your therapist I am present with you and focused on you. I do not use other technology or tools that distract and I do my best to cede the space. Therapy is your space.
Collaboration & Choice:
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 your self.
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 your self.
(Re)Connection:
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. Disconnection from our bodies, from our selves, from others, and from the earth is at the heart of the matter that is healing.
Growth & (Un)Learning:
I believe that we are all capable of learning & growth both through and on the other side of our struggles. And that sometimes we need to do some unlearning to find our way back to the truth of our selves.
I believe that we are all capable of learning & growth both through and on the other side of our struggles. And that sometimes we need to do some unlearning to find our way back to the truth of our selves.
Wholistic Understanding:
Holding space for the many layers of your story (familial, political, cultural, etc.) and the many aspects of your lived experience (psychological, social/relational, somatic, environmental, etc.) we piece together and build an under-standing that we can grow from and build on.
Holding space for the many layers of your story (familial, political, cultural, etc.) and the many aspects of your lived experience (psychological, social/relational, somatic, environmental, etc.) we piece together and build an under-standing that we can grow from and build on.
Interflections Counselling Therapy
Therapeutic Modalities
- Ecotherapy/Nature Based Therapy
- Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapies
- Somatic Internal Family Systems (Parts Work)
- Client/Person Centered Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Existential Therapy
Lived Experience & Education
Lived 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.
I have also navigated and sought support for my own struggles with depression, anxiety alongside my own losses, grief, and traumas. All of which have brought me here, to who I am and how I choose to practice as a therapist.
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 contributed to my foundation as a therapist.
Some of the organizations I have and continue to be involved with are: Second Story Women's Centre, The Ecology
Action Centre, Adsum for Women & Children, Lailo Farm Sanctuary, North Mountain Animal
Sanctuary, Out of the Cold Emergency Shelter, Anchor Archive Zine Library, Inkstorm Screenprinters Collective, Radstorm, Food Not
Bombs, Elderdog, Metro SPCA, Sadlier House Alternative Library.
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:
- Politics of Trauma - Politicized Somatics (in process -2026)
- Nature Based Therapy Level 1 certification (in process - 2026)
- Nature Based Therapy in Practice (Advanced), Human-Nature Counselling Society (2025)
- Neurobiology of Feeling Safe - Boundaries 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)