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Elevation Counselling Services Gillian Gish, MSW, RSW | Supporting veterans, military families, and adults navigating trauma, PTSD, OCD, and life transitions. Serving BC & Ontario.

Compassionate counselling grounded in connection, understanding, and meaningful change.

10/23/2026

Come for the FUN!!! Leave with relationship skills we probably should’ve learned years ago. 😂

Relationship Reset starts Monday! We’re exploring trust, boundaries, communication, repair and finishing the week with a little self-compassion. 💕Because learning about relationships doesn’t have to feel like homework.

Five days. Free. Come as you are.

Grab your spot through the link in my bio. 💛

Holding the Wainwright community in my thoughts today. My heart is with those grieving, those injured, their loved ones,...
10/18/2026

Holding the Wainwright community in my thoughts today. My heart is with those grieving, those injured, their loved ones, and everyone affected.

To my military community: thinking of you. 🤍

06/24/2026

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve pulled out all the markers, crayons, paints, and colourful supplies. 🎨✨

Tomorrow evening, I’ve been invited to facilitate a therapeutic arts experience for a group of entrepreneurs, and I’m so excited.

Here’s the funny thing: art therapy is one of the most inquired therapeutic approaches I offer… and also one of the most hesitant…You want to do it but you don’t want to do it…

The voices many hear:

“I’m not creative.”
“This feels awkward.”
“I don’t want to draw.”
“What if I do it wrong?”

Exactly.

The magic of therapeutic arts isn’t about creating something beautiful. It’s about getting comfortable with the uncomfortable.

Art helps us access parts of ourselves that words often can’t reach. It engages the insula the part in the brain bridge between our thinking brain and our felt experience. Helping us connect more deeply with our emotions, sensations, and inner wisdom.

Sometimes healing looks less like talking and more like picking up a crayon, making a mess, and noticing what happens.

The discomfort is often where the growth begins. 💛

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06/05/2026

We live in a culture that rewards busyness, productivity, achievement, and people-pleasing. The more we do, the more we’re praised for it.

But sometimes all that doing isn’t helping us move forward, it’s helping us avoid slowing down long enough to notice what we’re carrying.

Avoiding difficult feelings.

Avoiding unmet needs.

Avoiding the parts of ourselves asking for attention.

What would happen if you slowed down?

What feelings might surface?

What needs might become clearer?

What parts of yourself have been waiting for your attention?

The answer might feel uncomfortable.





05/22/2026

There’s always pressure to do more, achieve more, be more productive.
But rest isn’t something we have to earn. It’s essential. We actually become more productive after rest.

05/20/2026

You don’t need certainty to begin.

You just need to trust yourself enough to try.

Failure isn’t the opposite of success
it’s part of it.

You’ve got this. 🐾





05/18/2026

Some wounds don’t make us stop wanting connection, they can make us afraid of it. And honestly, that makes sense. When trust has been broken, closeness can start to feel risky instead of safe.

But we were never meant to heal entirely alone. We are wired for connection, comfort, belonging, and being seen.

Healing often begins with finding even one safe person. One relationship where you can slowly practice being yourself again. One space where you don’t have to stay guarded all the time.

That’s part of what counselling can offer: a safe, supportive relationship where trust can be rebuilt gently, at your pace.

Connection is essential.
And you deserve relationships that feel safe, mutual, and nourishing. 🖤

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05/03/2026

No… meditation isn’t about emptying your mind. One of the biggest myths out there!!!

IT IS about observing your thoughts without getting pulled into them.

Like Mr. Paws here, is alert, aware, just watching everything pass by. 🐾

Your mind might be busy, quiet, or chaotic. That’s not the problem. The practice is noticing it all… without reacting.

Over time, this creates space between you and your thoughts, so you can choose what to engage with, instead of being carried away by it.



That space? That’s where your power is.

05/01/2026

We spend so much energy trying not to disappoint people.

Meanwhile… he just said “no thank you” to a strawberry 🍓🐶

No guilt. No overthinking. Just honesty.

Here’s the thing, saying no isn’t rejection, it’s communication.
And clear, honest communication builds TRUST!!

You don’t have to twist yourself to be liked. You can be as gentle (and adorable) as a puppy… and still mean it when you say no.

“No thank you” is enough.

05/01/2026

Tax season is over and for some of us this can feel heavier than for others. So maybe it’s time for a puppy intervention.🐾

Animals have this incredible way of grounding us in the most simple, spectacular moments. Slowing us down. Softening the edges. Bringing us back to the present.

Research even shows they can help lower our cortisol levels, our stress hormone, making them pretty amazing partners in emotional regulation.

Of course, not everyone is an animal person… but if you are, you probably get it. 💛

Full disclosure: this is my little “grandpuppy,” Maverick, my daughter’s foster fail, and honestly, I completely understand why. You all thought I was a cat lady 🤭

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