Ways We Help
Bridging With Support was founded on the idea that mental health services shouldn't be a luxury that is only accessible to a few people but to everyone who seeks them out.
When seeking out a mental health professional you should feel comfortable sharing lived experiences with someone who truly understands and has experience counselling with the topics you bring up.
we offer support
Bridging With Support utilizes a network of mental health professionals across the province who are able to provide counselling / psychotherapy support to the LGBTQQ2+ community, Indigenous populations, and people of colour.
Dana Dodge (she/her)
Student Clinician
I work with adults grappling with life’s challenges such as anxiety, depression, finding meaning, grief, loneliness and isolation, relationships, self-discovery, societal pressures, and transitions. My goal is to help clients explore their questions and issues with an open mind in a supportive environment and find clarity and peace through the process.
My approach is collaborative, empathetic, authentic, and curious. My therapeutic practice is based on an existential approach and integrates aspects of cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic theories, depending on what most resonates with each client and their unique needs. The basic assumptions of existential psychotherapy include that it is possible to make sense of life, we each have the capacity to make informed decisions about life and our attitude towards it, difficult issues will not be resolved by being avoided, and we are ultimately able to learn from life and transcend problems.
In sessions, you will be encouraged to share what is top of mind and explore issues you wish to go deeper on. I will seek to better understand your world, your perspective, and your experience so that together, we can try to make sense, find meaning, or discover a path forward that is helpful to you.
I am working towards my doctorate in counselling psychology and psychotherapy (DCPsych) through Middlesex University in the UK. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Acadia University and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics. I am a student member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), British Association for Counselling and Psychology (BACP), and the British Psychological Society (BPS). In tandem with my psychology studies and clinical practice, I work with organizations going through transformation and change on their people strategy, capabilities, and culture.
Services
80 Minute Individual Intake Session
50 Minute Individual Session
80 Minute Individual Session