Clinical Counselling: Daye Hagel, M.A., C.C.C.Whether you’re in the midst of a life transition, experiencing the effects of trauma or loss, struggling with a personal relationship, or you’ve just reached a breaking point, you know that something needs to change. A supportive and professional “sounding board” like a clinical counsellor can make the difference at any stage of your journey.
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Read about Daye
Daye Hagel is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C.) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She has graduate degrees in Counselling Psychology and Anthropology, and experience supporting adults, children, and families with trauma, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, and resilience. Areas of expertise include:
Trauma: Daye’s clinical training is in trauma-informed practice, and she continues to complete additional education in the physiology of trauma and healing. A traumatized nervous system has adapted to distress, and healing trauma responses is possible.
Religion / Spirituality: Daye holds a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies, including joint specializations in Biblical Hebrew, Christianity, and Eastern philosophies. With an eclectic faith based education, she has personal and actively lived experience in Christian (Catholic, Anglican, Evangelical, and Latter-Day Saint), Jewish, Islamic, Taoist, and Indigenous faith communities. Daye is active in her own faith practice, with a deep appreciation for "many paths" through which God pursues those who seek. She is comfortable talking with people of any background about matters of faith, God, spirituality, guilt, death, forgiveness, doubt, relationship, or who are wrestling with other meaningful questions such as around integrating psychedelic experiences. Daye follows her clients' lead on how or whether to integrate matters of faith in counselling; you are welcome to bring it up if you would like to explore Christian or other faith matters in your counselling.
First Nations: For five years Daye has worked primarily with First Nations clients, through Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental Health in Victoria, and as a full-time Clinical Counsellor with the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, with Nations on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. She has completed San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training and been humbled to work alongside Elders and traditional knowledge keepers from many First Nations in B.C. as well as the Arctic.
Children: Daye is trained and has a passion for expressive play therapy, which works with the ways that young children experience trauma, grief, and loss to promote their natural expressive and healing capacities, even if they are pre-verbal. She is also Mom to a little one herself.
Restorative Justice: Daye was a senior facilitator with Restorative Justice Victoria for five years, working with victims and offenders of crime to promote accountability and meaningful reparations.
Remote areas: Daye spent nearly two decades as a professional wilderness guide, as well as being a former Search & Rescue volunteer. She runs a program called Mental Health Wilderness First Aid, which provides mental health training and awareness specific to remote areas.
Daye works with: Adult individuals, children, preschool children, parent+child, first responders, First Nations.
Areas/Issues: anxiety, depression, grief + loss, trauma, PTSD, self-harm, spirituality, intergenerational trauma, residential school
Therapeutic Modalities / Training: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, Expressive Play Therapy, Nature-Based Therapy.
Funding: I am set up to direct bill for First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) clients. For other insurance programs, all you usually need to submit a claim for reimbursement is my CCC number, which is #10004480.
During her free time, Daye enjoys quilting and amateur astronomy. She and her husband are raising their family in Courtenay, B.C. Canada.
Trauma: Daye’s clinical training is in trauma-informed practice, and she continues to complete additional education in the physiology of trauma and healing. A traumatized nervous system has adapted to distress, and healing trauma responses is possible.
Religion / Spirituality: Daye holds a Bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies, including joint specializations in Biblical Hebrew, Christianity, and Eastern philosophies. With an eclectic faith based education, she has personal and actively lived experience in Christian (Catholic, Anglican, Evangelical, and Latter-Day Saint), Jewish, Islamic, Taoist, and Indigenous faith communities. Daye is active in her own faith practice, with a deep appreciation for "many paths" through which God pursues those who seek. She is comfortable talking with people of any background about matters of faith, God, spirituality, guilt, death, forgiveness, doubt, relationship, or who are wrestling with other meaningful questions such as around integrating psychedelic experiences. Daye follows her clients' lead on how or whether to integrate matters of faith in counselling; you are welcome to bring it up if you would like to explore Christian or other faith matters in your counselling.
First Nations: For five years Daye has worked primarily with First Nations clients, through Aboriginal Child and Youth Mental Health in Victoria, and as a full-time Clinical Counsellor with the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, with Nations on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. She has completed San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training and been humbled to work alongside Elders and traditional knowledge keepers from many First Nations in B.C. as well as the Arctic.
Children: Daye is trained and has a passion for expressive play therapy, which works with the ways that young children experience trauma, grief, and loss to promote their natural expressive and healing capacities, even if they are pre-verbal. She is also Mom to a little one herself.
Restorative Justice: Daye was a senior facilitator with Restorative Justice Victoria for five years, working with victims and offenders of crime to promote accountability and meaningful reparations.
Remote areas: Daye spent nearly two decades as a professional wilderness guide, as well as being a former Search & Rescue volunteer. She runs a program called Mental Health Wilderness First Aid, which provides mental health training and awareness specific to remote areas.
Daye works with: Adult individuals, children, preschool children, parent+child, first responders, First Nations.
Areas/Issues: anxiety, depression, grief + loss, trauma, PTSD, self-harm, spirituality, intergenerational trauma, residential school
Therapeutic Modalities / Training: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, Expressive Play Therapy, Nature-Based Therapy.
Funding: I am set up to direct bill for First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) clients. For other insurance programs, all you usually need to submit a claim for reimbursement is my CCC number, which is #10004480.
During her free time, Daye enjoys quilting and amateur astronomy. She and her husband are raising their family in Courtenay, B.C. Canada.
Clinical counselling is offered online over Zoom. A sliding scale is available for low-income clients -- see below, or inquire by email: info@emunahcounselling.ca. New clients are welcome to book a free 20 minute phone call consultation.
See below for all booking opportunities.
See below for all booking opportunities.
info@emunahcounselling.ca
