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You’re not “too sensitive.”

You don’t have to carry it all.

Give yourself a place to slow down.

Counselling in Victoria and throughout British Columbia for anxiety and depression, high sensitivity, emotional eating, menopause, and the challenges that come with feeling overwhelmed by life.

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You’ve Been Holding Everything Together

Maybe Life Has Been Feeling Harder
Than It Should

You might be functioning on the outside while privately feeling anxious, exhausted, overwhelmed, or unlike yourself.

Maybe your mind won’t switch off. Maybe you’ve lost your energy or motivation. You might be turning to food for comfort, struggling with changes brought on by menopause, or spending so much time looking after everyone else that you’ve lost touch with what you need.

Sometimes you know exactly what’s bothering you.

Other times, you just know that the way you’ve been feeling isn’t sustainable anymore.

You may be dealing with:

  • Anxiety and overthinking
  • Depression or low mood
  • Emotional overwhelm
  • People-pleasing and guilt
  • Perfectionism and self-criticism
  • Emotional eating
  • Menopause and midlife changes
  • Difficulty setting boundaries
  • Burnout and exhaustion
  • Feeling responsible for everyone else

You’re tired of abandoning yourself just to keep the peace.

You Don’t Need to Keep Pushing Through

You Don’t Need to Keep Pushing Through

When you’ve been struggling for a while, it’s easy to adapt to feeling bad. You keep going, take care of what needs to be done, and tell yourself you’ll deal with it eventually.

Tea and journalCounselling gives you somewhere to stop and pay attention to what’s actually happening.

Our work can help you:

  • Understand the patterns that keep you feeling stuck
  • Manage anxiety and difficult emotions
  • Become less critical of yourself
  • Set healthier boundaries
  • Respond to stress without becoming overwhelmed
  • Understand what you need — and allow yourself to need it
  • Develop healthier ways of coping
  • Feel more like yourself again

A Gentle, Compassionate Approach

A Gentle, Compassionate Approach

Esther Kane, MSW, RCC, Victoria, BCMy approach is warm, practical, and deeply compassionate.

For almost 30 years, I’ve helped adults understand the patterns that keep them feeling anxious, overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected from themselves.

Many of the people I work with are Highly Sensitive People, and I’m an HSP myself. But you don’t need to identify as highly sensitive to work with me.

Whether you’re struggling with anxiety or depression, emotional eating, people-pleasing, perfectionism, the challenges of menopause, or simply feeling exhausted by the way you’ve been living, we’ll work together to understand what’s happening and find a way forward that feels right for you.

You don’t have to keep pushing through on your own.

How I Can Help

How I Can Help

You don’t have to fit neatly into one category. These are some of the areas I most often help people with.

Highly Sensitive People

Understand your sensitivity, reduce overwhelm, and learn to work with the way you’re wired rather than constantly fighting against it.

HSP counselling →

Anxiety & Depression

Find practical, compassionate support for worry, overthinking, low mood, exhaustion, and the patterns that keep you feeling stuck.

Anxiety & depression counselling →

Emotional Eating & Food Addiction

Understand what’s underneath your relationship with food and develop more compassionate ways of responding to stress and difficult emotions.

Emotional eating →

Menopause

Navigate the emotional changes of perimenopause and menopause, including anxiety, overwhelm, relationships, identity, and the transition into a new stage of life.

Menopause counselling →

Video intro

If you’d like to get a sense of who I am and how I work, I invite you to watch this short welcome video.

 

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Guided Meditations for Highly Sensitive People

Complete Guided Meditation Collection for HSPs

Gentle support you can return to whenever you need it.

Created specifically for highly sensitive people, Esther’s guided meditations offer practical support for overwhelm, mood, nervous system regulation, boundaries, and rediscovering joy.

Choose a focused ~20-minute Essential version, a more spacious ~40-minute Extended version, or get the complete collection.

Explore the Guided Meditations

Practical Support for Highly Sensitive People

Practical Support for Highly Sensitive People

I regularly share videos to help highly sensitive people navigate anxiety, people-pleasing, burnout, relationships, and self-compassion. Explore the latest videos below for practical guidance, compassionate conversations, and reminders that you don’t have to figure it all out alone.

Latest Videos

Looking for more support? Visit Esther’s YouTube channel for additional videos created specifically for highly sensitive people.

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You deserve

You deserve a life that doesn’t feel so heavy.

If you’re ready to stop living in constant overwhelm and start caring for yourself with the same compassion you give everyone else, counselling can help.

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Victoria Counselling for Adults
Based in Victoria, BC, Esther offers in-person, video, and telephone counselling for adults throughout British Columbia, with particular expertise in highly sensitive people, anxiety and depression, emotional eating, and menopause.
778.265.6190
Watch Esther's latest videos and practical guidance for Highly Sensitive People on YouTube
or explore her Guided Meditations for Highly Sensitive People.
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