Individual counselling addresses personal growth, mental health concerns, trauma, performance and life transitions.
Core Elements offers a broad spectrum of individual services designed to meet diverse needs, and each therapist brings specialized expertise to ensure clients receive tailored care.
Alicia Hinger – Relationships and Attachment
    • Alicia is a registered psychologist and relationship coach with more than 25 years of experience.  She specializes in couples counselling but also provides individual therapy that helps clients address relationship patterns, trauma and attachment issues.  Her practice integrates modalities such as the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy.  She also offers equine‑assisted therapy and coaching for personal growth and life transitions .
Erin O’Toole – Performance and Mental Resilience
    • Erin is a registered therapist and certified coach who blends performance psychology with counselling.  She draws on her decade of high‑performance coaching to help athletes, teams and professionals develop mental resilience, refine focus and align performance with purpose.  Her individual counselling uses Internal Family Systems and solution‑focused approaches to build emotional resilience and help clients aged 15 and older understand their patterns and align habits with their values .
Rich Luykenaar – Addiction and Mental Health
    • Rich has over twenty years of experience in mental health and addictions.  Before joining Core Elements, he worked at a public clinic where he developed treatment programs and groups.  He now focuses on helping individuals with anxiety, depression, stress, trauma and sobriety.  Rich believes education and self‑understanding are vital for long‑term recovery and is committed to helping clients thrive .
Noël Stolz – Women’s Health, Life Transitions and ADHD
    • Noël is a provisional psychologist working towards her full registration.  She offers both in‑person and virtual sessions and is passionate about supporting overwhelmed, neurodivergent women and mothers.  Noël helps clients navigate ADHD, anxiety, depression, perfectionism, burnout and life transitions with a blend of person‑centred, cognitive‑behavioural and solution‑focused strategies.  Her goal is to empower women to find balance, rebuild confidence and reconnect with their authentic selves .
Other individual services and options
    •In addition to specialized therapy and coaching, Core Elements provides sessions for trauma (including EMDR), performance coaching for non‑athletes, executive mentorship, stress and time‑management coaching, and equine‑facilitated therapy.  Appointments vary in length and format—clients can choose in‑person, virtual, equine‑assisted or Mind‑Body Integration sessions, ensuring flexibility and holistic support.