Bee Kind Counselling

Bee Kind Counselling Bee Kind Counselling offers a variety of therapeutic services for those living in Ontario Canada. I am a registered social worker with my BSW and MSW.

We provide support for anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, BPD, bipolar disorder, relationship issues, anger management, LGBTQ+ issues and more. About Bee Kind Counselling

My name is Bre Traverse, I identify as a cis-gendered female with pronouns of she/her and of Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation descent. I am actively a part of the LGBTQ+ community and am an ally to many other communities. Opening my

own private practice was always a goal I strived towards. My goal is to help you find healthy coping skills that you can implement in your everyday lives. Bee Kind Counselling is a safe space for all gender identities, sexual orientations, races, and cultural backgrounds. The name "Bee Kind Counselling" originates from my name Bre, short form "B" and my love for all kinds of people promoting the need to be kind to each and every person as you never know what they may be experiencing. Life can get difficult, and sometimes a little help from a professional Psychotherapist/person with lived experience can make things better. I care about your well-being and provide you all the tools you need in order to seize the day and learn how to tackle even the most traumatic circumstances.

You may have been taught that putting other people's needs first is the kind or "right" thing to do.While caring for oth...
07/13/2026

You may have been taught that putting other people's needs first is the kind or "right" thing to do.

While caring for others is important, constantly giving without caring for yourself can leave you feeling emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, and burned out.

Overgiving is often a learned pattern that can develop from childhood experiences, trauma, people pleasing, low self-esteem, or a fear of disappointing others.

Signs you may be an overgiver can include:

🐝 Feeling guilty when you say "no" or set boundaries

🐝 Putting everyone else's needs before your own

🐝 Feeling responsible for fixing other people's emotions or problems

🐝 Struggling to ask for help, even when you need it

🐝 Feeling emotionally or physically drained after helping others

🐝 Ignoring your own needs until you reach burnout

🐝 Believing your worth depends on how much you do for others

🐝 Feeling anxious about disappointing other people

Healthy relationships involve both giving and receiving.

Setting boundaries, recognizing your own needs, and making time to care for yourself are important parts of maintaining your mental health and well-being.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we support individuals in developing healthy boundaries, improving self-worth, navigating people pleasing, and building more balanced relationships.

You deserve relationships where your needs matter too.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com.

Loving someone who is disabled often means learning to see the world through a different lens of access, capacity, and s...
07/10/2026

Loving someone who is disabled often means learning to see the world through a different lens of access, capacity, and support needs.

Disability can shape how someone moves through the world, communicates, rests, and participates in relationships, but it does not define their worth, potential, or depth of connection.

Support is most meaningful when it is flexible, respectful, and grounded in understanding rather than assumption.

If you love someone who is disabled, it can help to:
🐝 Believe their access needs without minimizing them.
🐝 Understand that capacity can change from day to day.
🐝 Respect rest as essential, not optional.
🐝 Do not take accessibility needs personally.
🐝 Learn independently without placing the full burden of education on them.

Small shifts in understanding can create more safety, ease, and connection in relationships.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming care that supports individuals and families in building accessible, compassionate, and understanding relationships.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com

If you are an Indigenous person navigating the impacts of intergenerational trauma, this is a letter for you.What you ar...
07/09/2026

If you are an Indigenous person navigating the impacts of intergenerational trauma, this is a letter for you.

What you are experiencing is connected to generations of lived experience shaped by colonization, displacement, residential schools, and ongoing systemic harm.

These experiences can continue to show up in the body, nervous system, relationships, and emotional responses.

At the same time, this is not the whole story of who you are.

Your story also holds culture, identity, resilience, and connection that have been carried forward across generations, even in the face of harm and disruption.

You might notice the impacts showing up in different ways, and all of them are understandable responses to what has been lived and inherited.

It is important to remember:

🐝 Your responses make sense in context.
🐝 You are not “too much” or “too sensitive.”
🐝 Nothing you are experiencing means you are broken.
🐝 Healing is not linear and does not look the same for everyone.
🐝 Culture, identity, and community can be sources of grounding and strength.
🐝 You deserve care that is safe, respectful, and affirming.
🐝 Your experiences deserve to be understood without judgment.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed and affirming care that recognizes both the impacts of intergenerational trauma and the strength, resilience, and identity that exist alongside it.

We hold space for healing that is grounded in safety, respect, and understanding.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com

What we often see on the surface is a reaction, but underneath that reaction is usually something much more meaningful. ...
07/08/2026

What we often see on the surface is a reaction, but underneath that reaction is usually something much more meaningful. A need that hasn’t been met, an emotion that hasn’t been acknowledged, or an experience that felt unsafe or too much to process at the time.

Our nervous system is always trying to protect us. Even when the response feels big or disproportionate, it is often rooted in past learning, lived experience, and patterns of survival.

In these moments, support is not about “fixing” yourself, but about gently reconnecting with what is happening internally.

Some ways to begin supporting yourself include:
🐝 Pausing to notice what is happening in your body
🐝 Identifying what emotion or need may be present
🐝 Using grounding techniques through your senses
🐝 Reducing sensory or environmental overwhelm when possible

These small moments of awareness and care can help shift your nervous system out of activation and into a greater sense of steadiness over time.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming support to help you understand your nervous system, recognize your patterns, and build coping strategies that feel realistic and supportive for your life.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com

Disability Pride Month holds a wide range of experiences.Disability can be visible or invisible, diagnosed or undiagnose...
07/07/2026

Disability Pride Month holds a wide range of experiences.

Disability can be visible or invisible, diagnosed or undiagnosed, supported or still being understood.

Wherever you are in your journey, this month, we are sending support to those:
🐝 Navigating disability in all its visible and invisible forms
🐝 Masking needs to move through environments that are not always accessible
🐝 Waiting for diagnosis, clarity, or validation
🐝 Advocating for access in spaces that are unaccommodating
🐝 Feeling dismissed, misunderstood, or overlooked by systems or people
🐝 Experiencing burnout from constant self-advocacy
🐝 Unlearning internalized ableism or shame
🐝 Grieving changes in ability, access, or independence

Support matters not only during Disability Pride Month but every day.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming care that recognizes disability as a valid and meaningful part of human diversity. We support individuals in exploring identity, reducing shame, and building more sustainable ways of navigating the world.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com

Disability Pride Month invites us to move beyond awareness and into meaningful action in everyday life, not just symboli...
07/06/2026

Disability Pride Month invites us to move beyond awareness and into meaningful action in everyday life, not just symbolic recognition.

It looks like:
🐝 Designing spaces that prioritize accessibility from the start
🐝 Respecting different communication and energy needs
🐝 Understanding that rest is essential, not optional
🐝 Listening to disabled voices and lived experience
🐝 Committing to inclusion beyond awareness campaigns

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming care that recognizes disability as a valid and valued part of identity, not something to be fixed or minimized.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com

Ever notice how you feel like it is just easier to do everything on your own?As an ADHDer, independence can start as a c...
07/03/2026

Ever notice how you feel like it is just easier to do everything on your own?

As an ADHDer, independence can start as a coping strategy.

When past experiences involve overwhelm, miscommunication, forgotten tasks, or inconsistent support, it can begin to feel safer to rely only on yourself.

Over time, this can turn into a pattern where doing everything alone feels like the only option that will “actually work.”

You might notice yourself:
🐝 Preferring to handle tasks alone to avoid extra cognitive load
🐝 Feeling unsure how to ask for help or delegate clearly
🐝 Taking on more than you realistically have capacity for
🐝 Believing it is faster or easier to just do it yourself
🐝 Feeling responsible for making sure everything gets done “properly”

But ADHD does not mean you are meant to live without support.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming therapy that supports ADHDers in understanding their patterns, reducing burnout cycles, and building support systems that actually feel sustainable.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com

Have you ever felt like you need to “do enough” before you’re allowed to rest or ask for help?For many people, rest and ...
07/02/2026

Have you ever felt like you need to “do enough” before you’re allowed to rest or ask for help?

For many people, rest and support can start to feel conditional.

They can feel like something that has to be earned through productivity, exhaustion, or reaching a breaking point first.

Over time, this can turn into a pattern where you ignore your body’s early signals until you are completely overwhelmed.

You might notice yourself:

🐝 Waiting until burnout before allowing yourself to slow down
🐝 Feeling guilty for resting when there is still more to do
🐝 Struggling to ask for help until you are at your limit
🐝 Believing support has to be “deserved” through effort or struggle
🐝 Pushing through fatigue, overwhelm, or stress without pause

But your needs do not become more valid when they become urgent.

Rest is something your body needs consistently, not something you have to earn through depletion.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming therapy that supports you in unlearning burnout cycles, building self-trust, and reconnecting with your needs before they reach a crisis point.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting our website: www.beekindcounselling.com

Disability Pride Month is here, and we’re taking this time to recognize, celebrate, and uplift disabled individuals and ...
07/01/2026

Disability Pride Month is here, and we’re taking this time to recognize, celebrate, and uplift disabled individuals and communities.

This month is about visibility, history, resilience, and pride, but it is also about continuing to challenge ableism and advocate for meaningful accessibility in everyday life.

Disability inclusion is an ongoing commitment to how we show up, listen, learn, and make space for others.

As we begin this month, here are a few ways to engage with Disability Pride meaningfully:
🐝 Wear disability pride colours to show visibility and solidarity.
🐝 Get educated through lived experience voices and community learning.
🐝 Support disabled-owned businesses and creators.
🐝 Advocate for accessibility in your everyday environments.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we provide trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming support that recognizes disability as part of human diversity, not something to be minimized or “fixed.”

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting www.beekindcounselling.com

Stop scrolling if you've ever heard: "But you don't look like you have ADHD."This is one of the most common misconceptio...
06/30/2026

Stop scrolling if you've ever heard: "But you don't look like you have ADHD."

This is one of the most common misconceptions people with ADHD experience.

Many ADHDers go unidentified for years because their experiences do not align with outdated stereotypes about what ADHD is "supposed" to look like.

When many people think of ADHD, they picture someone who is constantly hyperactive, disruptive, forgetful, or unable to sit still.

The reality is that ADHD can present in many different ways, and many of the challenges associated with ADHD are not immediately visible to others.

For many people with ADHD, this can look like:

🐝 Masking symptoms

🐝 Creating extensive systems

🐝 Working significantly harder behind the scenes

🐝 Experiencing racing thoughts, overwhelm, or executive functioning challenges that others cannot see

🐝 Being overlooked because their symptoms do not match common stereotypes

🐝 Having struggles dismissed because they are successful, high-achieving, or academically capable

🐝 People-pleasing and overcompensating

🐝 Feeling exhausted from the constant effort required to keep up with expectations

Historically, ADHD research focused primarily on hyperactive young boys, which contributed to a narrow understanding of how ADHD can present.

As a result, many individuals, including girls, women, adults, and marginalized communities, were often overlooked or misidentified.

At Bee Kind Counselling, we take a neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed approach that recognizes the many ways ADHD can present across different identities, ages, genders, cultures, and life experiences.

You do not need to fit a stereotype for your experiences to be valid.

Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation by emailing [email protected], calling (519) 757-7842, or visiting our website: www.beekindcounselling.com

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