Saskia Wolsak

I have been a counsellor with Choose Again since 2006. Long before that, however, I began my life-long interest in the transformative power of honesty and awareness. This began at an early age with my interest in poetry, and later in the visual arts. Through writing and painting I taught myself to become aware of my own thought patterns and to transform them by opening my mind to greater insights.
My quest for self-awareness then branched out to include Buddhist meditation, Aikido, the culinary arts, and wilderness survival skills, in particular traditional plant knowledge. When I am not counselling, I am a researcher and educator in the field of ethnobiology – helping to rebuild bridges between humans and the natural world through historical inquiry and experiential education. My guiding principle in life seems to be: what does it mean to be human, and how can we do it well?

Working as a counsellor for Choose Again offers me the opportunity to deepen self-awareness while guiding clients to do the same. I view counselling as a partnership in healing; we learn from and grow with each other.

As a counsellor, I strongly believe that we each have access to an inner knowing – call it intuition, our higher self, or an inner teacher – which can help us through our most difficult times and guide us in every decision. My goal is to help clients access this inner knowing through cultivating awareness of old patterns and habits; learning to question the stories that drive us; and practicing the 6-step process of forgiveness. I believe that everyone has the ability to reconnect with the desire to heal and to love that resides within us all.

I am available for one-on-one Skype sessions; and for in-person one-on-one and Holotropic breathing sessions in Vancouver.