Our Story...

It all started when...

Hannah while completing her graduate studies in the field of counselling and connected with others over their shared vision and hope of what counselling could be, as well as a shared love of narrative and fiction. Hannah discovered her desire to create a counselling that is a space of peace, safety and welcome.

She hoped to provide counselling that approached each person holistically, not viewing a person as purely physical, mental, spiritual or emotional but as a combination of all of these aspects of personhood including one’s life experiences. Through Hannah’s own life experiences and research, she was confronted with the very real areas of need in her community and society as a whole (i.e. isolation, lack of connection, difficulty accepting "imperfection", and a lack of safety to be authentic).

And so after many years of study Hannah graduated from her Masters and finally faced the opportunity of putting her hopes and dreams for counselling into practice. She was finally able to realize her vision to create an environment that was accepting and to develop an approach to counselling that supported individuals seeking to live in congruence with who they are created to be and pursuing their calling in life.

And thus, in the summer of 2016, her business, The Lamppost Counselling Services, was born; the lamppost symbolizing for Hannah a literary image of a place of meeting, hope and guidance.

She opened her doors at the beginning of 2017.