NeurAlive Counselling and Neurofeedback provides counselling services this includes Child & Youth Counselling, Individual Counselling, Couples Counselling, Family Counselling, and Online Counselling.
NeurAlive’s mission is to relieve suffering and aid personal transformation through effective and medication-free counselling and neurofeedback services. We treat the whole person, mind (thoughts, feelings) and body (brain, central nervous system), to create a lasting change in people’s lives.
Explore our website to learn more about our services for children, youth, adults, couples and families in the Greater Victoria Region and throughout British Columbia.
Brenden Bentley-Taylor is both NeurAlive’s Clinical Director and a Registered Clinical Counsellor dedicated to helping couples overcome their challenges and restore a sense of joy, trust and intimacy to their relationship. He also champions supporting couples in their roles as parents.
Couples Counselling: Managing our intimate relationships to ensure they are healthy, attuned, and capable of growth is perhaps one of the most important investments we can make. However, none of us is provided with the ultimate “How-To” book to ensure we are tending to ourselves and our loved ones in this way. This is where couples counselling can help. Brenden provides relationship-specific support for couples struggling in various areas, including communication, emotional attunement, infidelity, trust building, power struggles, and planning for the future.
Brenden’s approach combines both psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational components. This means that at times, therapy will focus on uncovering and sharing feelings, clarifying beliefs and values, and recognizing unhealthy patterns. At other times, education will be the focus, involving learning new concepts and frameworks, practicing skills, and debriefing the application of skills and concepts outside of sessions. These two approaches are necessary to unpack and process existing challenges while also growing and evolving the relationship by adding new insights and abilities.
Couples Intensives: Sometimes, a one-hour couples session doesn’t quite feel sufficient to make headway with some of the core challenges you’re facing. To support couples who wish to delve deeper into their relationship struggles without the time restrictions of shorter sessions, Brenden offers an intensive format. These four- to six-hour sessions are designed specifically to help couples safely dive deeper into the underlying causes of discontentment in their relationship and begin developing a foundation of skills for communication, healing, and connecting in day-to-day life. These intensives can be followed by individual sessions on a weekly basis or as needed.