About Us

Our 
Story

Heartwood Counselling was founded in 2017 by Elana Angus, then a young parent and hospital social worker. She practiced a mishmash of narrative therapy, mindfulness, and emotionally-focussed techniques in her career, but wanted a new therapy model before starting a private practice. After years of searching, she happened upon an AEDP workshop and fell in love with the relational model. Several months of studying and mentoring later, she was ready to leave her day job. After graduating her first student in 2019, it just made sense to expand the practice.

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The ethos of AEDP is "undoing aloneness," and Heartwood aims to undo the aloneness of counsellors practicing private therapy. We offer team meetings, group consult, co-learning, internal chats, and shared office space. We love working together, learning from each other, and sharing knowledge and resources. Better, happier therapists makes for better, happier therapy!