Welcome to Blackbird Holistic Counselling

Now in its 12th year of business, Blackbird Holistic Counselling has become a mental health counselling service built on 2 decades of dedicated, formal training and variety of work experiences in the mental health field. It is a service that I am not only proud of, but one I am confident will help create effective, long-lasting wellness for clients who are ready to commit to their mental health needs.

For all inquiries please reach out to me at: lieffnancy@gmail.com

No referral required

Blackbird Holistic Counselling:

A versatile bridge between clinical and alternative pathways to healing. It’s your choice.

Services:

  • Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C.), EMDR Certified Therapist (ECT), Clinical EMDR Counselling Services

  • Registered Naturopathic Counselling, Alternative Counselling Services

  • In-person (Conception Bay North, N.L., Canada) and/or virtual therapy services at your convenience

  • Individual and/or Group Therapy

Blackbird Holistic Counselling offers a comprehensive customizable blend trauma-informed, body-based healing clinical and alternative therapeutic modalities, tailored to each client and designed to heal pain with precision and power at the root, creating long-lasting wellness for your mind, body, heart and spirit.

Most Canadian Insurance Companies accept my services

EMDR THERAPY

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly effective form of mental health treatment, designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans in the late 1980s. It has evolved over time as one of the most effective and versatile forms of trauma treatment for a wide-variety of mental health concerns for children and adults across the lifespan. EMDR is also an effective form of treatment for chronic pain disorders and sleep disorders.

It is widely accepted in the mental health field that traumatic memories are the root of mental health conditions. EMDR posits that these traumatic memories are stored within the brain and its nervous system throughout the body, resulting in chronic trauma reactions felt as psychological, emotional and even physical symptoms when the memories are triggered by current day experiences or by future fears. The goal of EMDR treatment is to target the root of the suffering and process the traumatic memory. As EMDR clinical research demonstrates, when the trauma is processed and resolved, the pain and its symptoms dissolve.

If you would like to learn more about how EMDR works, watch this video published by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), the world’s leading authority on EMDR Therapy:

My EMDR Certified Therapist Profile

Feel free to take a look at my EMDR areas of focus and specializations

ALL EMDR Training Listed is EMDRIA Approved

EMDR Specializations

  • Anxiety (Generalized, Panic, Phobia, Social)

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

  • Depression

  • Chronic Illness/Pain (Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue)

  • Medical Trauma (Recovery from illness, new diagnosis, surgery, difficult health experiences, near-death experiences

  • Sleep Disorders

  • Single Event Trauma (Accidents, injury, assaults)

EMDR Trainings

  • Basic EMDR Training (2022)

  • EMDR Certification Training (2023)

  • EMDR Therapy for First Responders (2023)

  • EMDR Therapy for Anxiety, Panic Disorder, OCD and Specific Phobias (2024)

  • EMDR and Chronic Pain/Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) (2024-2025)

  • Recent Traumatic Events Protocol (R-TEP), Group Traumatic Events Protocol (G-TEP) (2024)

  • EMDR with Neurodivergent Clients (2025)

  • Group Enhancement Protocol (G-REP) (2025)

  • Treating OCD with EMDR Advanced Exposure & Ritual Prevention (ERP) Techniques (2025)

Specialized EMDR Services

EMDR Early Intervention (EEI):

Receiving EMDR Early Intervention in the aftermath or during disaster or crisis has been clinically shown to prevent the development of mental health conditions and/or exacerbation of ongoing mental health struggles. It also supports people undergoing current ongoing disaster/crisis cope with mental distress. For example, EEI has been used with much success in the State of New York, U.S. amid the early days of the 2020 COVID pandemic and amid the war on Ukraine. It is used successfully to support the mental health needs of Emergency First Responders due to high levels of trauma witnessed as part of their occupations and subsequent health hazards. EEI treats trauma before it has an opportunity to make long-term impacts, increases career longevity of at-risk professions and prevents mental and physical fall-out of burnout.

I am trained in and successfully conduct three highly specialized forms of EEI Therapy: Recent-Traumatic Events Protocol (R-TEP 2024); Group Traumatic Events Protocol (G-TEP, 2024) and Group Resources and Enhancement Protocol (G-REP, 2025), I provide safe stabilization and trauma processing group services to help people recover from traumatic experiences safeguarding their mental health.

Examples of R-TEP, G-REP and G-TEP applications:

  • Disaster/Crisis Response trauma treatment for emergency responders: firefighters, police officers, military professionals, paramedics.

  • Support for medical professionals such as Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), Registered Nurses (RN), Doctors, Nurse Practitioners (NP), Hospital staff.

  • Support for human services professionals: mental health professionals, front-line mental health crisis workers, social workers, personal or health care aids.

  • Support for teachers and teaching staff in school settings.

For more information on EMDR Early Intervention (EEI):

https://www.emdria.org/blog/emdr-early-intervention/

Shamanic Healing

Are you a Dreamer?

Do you have a deep connection with nature, her creations and her cycles? Do you feel a powerful connection with your ancestors? Do you have BIG dreams? Are you now at a crossroads in your spiritual life? Maybe you are looking to make sense out of or to reconcile your own spiritual experiences. Perhaps you are looking for guidance to bring your sense of spirituality into your every-day life.

If you answered YES to any of these questions, or you are ready to take the next step in your spiritual life, Shamanic Healing may be a great fit for you.

For inquires on specific available Shamanic Services, please email me at lieffnancy@gmail.com

Journey with me.