Dorette is a Specialist Wellness Counsellor registered with the ASCHP and holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology. She provides compassionate, person-centred support to adolescents, adults, and older adults navigating life’s most challenging transitions.

Her areas of specialization include end-of-life transitions, loss, grief, and mourning, as well as supporting individuals living with chronic illness. Dorette’s work is grounded in fostering emotional wellness and self-awareness, helping clients develop insight, resilience, and meaningful coping strategies during periods of change and uncertainty.

In addition to grief and loss support, Dorette offers guidance in stress management and burnout prevention, life transitions and adjustment, habit formation and lifestyle wellness, goal setting and personal development, relationship and communication skills, mindfulness and present-moment awareness, and non-clinical psycho-education.

Dorette primarily works from a person-centred therapeutic approach, creating a safe, empathetic, and non-judgmental space where clients feel heard and supported. She also integrates other evidence-informed modalities particularly well suited to grief and loss counselling, such as narrative approaches, meaning-centred techniques, mindfulness-based practices, and strengths-focused interventions. Her approach is always tailored to the unique needs, values, and circumstances of each client.

Dorette is committed to walking alongside her clients with warmth, and respect, supporting them in building emotional insight, restoring balance, and navigating life with greater clarity and self-compassion.