Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or disconnected from yourself?
Compassionate counselling for anxiety, stress, life transitions, and moments when life feels like too much.
Maybe you’ve been holding it together for too long.
You might be functioning on the outside while feeling completely overwhelmed on the inside.
Maybe you’re:
- Constantly anxious, on edge, or overwhelmed
- Exhausted from trying to keep everything together
- Struggling with stress, burnout, or a major life transition
- Feeling disconnected from yourself or stuck in patterns you can’t seem to change
- Carrying the effects of difficult or overwhelming experiences
- Wanting to understand yourself and your relationships more deeply
You don’t have to wait until things get worse to ask for support.
Counselling for where you are right now
Offering services both in person and remotely to adults and their families in the Kelowna and Okanagan area.
Anxiety & Overwhelm
When your mind won’t slow down, your body feels constantly on alert, or everyday life feels harder than it should.
Stress & Burnout
When you’ve been carrying too much for too long and you’re feeling depleted, irritable, exhausted, or unable to switch off.
Life Transitions
Support through changes in relationships, family, work, identity, loss, parenting, or other seasons of life that leave you feeling uncertain or stuck.
Trauma & Nervous System Support
When your mind won’t slow down, your body feels constantly on alert, or everyday life feels harder than it should.
Relationship & Family Challenges
When you’ve been carrying too much for too long and you’re feeling depleted, irritable, exhausted, or unable to switch off.
Therapy that considers more than just your thoughts
Sometimes you understand intellectually why you’re struggling—but knowing why doesn’t necessarily make the anxiety, tension, overwhelm, or emotional reactions disappear.
That’s where a body-aware approach can be helpful.
My work integrates:
Person-Centred Counselling
A collaborative approach that starts with your experience, your goals, and what you need.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Practical tools for understanding patterns between thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
Somatic Experiencing
A body-oriented approach that gently brings awareness to nervous-system responses and physical sensations associated with stress and overwhelming experiences.
Attachment-Informed Therapy
An understanding of how our early experiences and relationships can influence how we connect, cope, and feel safe.
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Somara Therapy: Your Partner in Mental Health
...You don’t have to have everything figured out before you reach out.
Hi, I’m Ashley.
I’m a Registered Professional Counsellor (RPC-Provisional) and the founder of Somara Therapy in Kelowna, BC.
I believe therapy should feel like a place where you can slow down, be understood, and explore what’s really happening without judgment.
My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that meaningful change happens when we understand not only our thoughts, but also our emotions, relationships, and the ways our bodies respond to stress.
My work integrates Somatic Experiencing, CBT, person-centred counselling, and attachment-informed approaches.
I don’t believe there is a one-size-fits-all approach to counselling.
Your story is yours. Your therapy should be too.
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