body-based
talk therapy
Nicole developed the Consilience Counselling approach which is an integration of mind body modalities. She helps individuals, families, and couples grow and heal in an environment that is warm, caring, and effective. You will feel seen and heard.
Nicole’s style is compassionate, embodied, and directive. Her clients comment on how at ease they feel in her space, how understood they feel and that they leave their sessions with a renewed sense of possibility and a deeper connection to self.
Her approach is heart-centered and based in neuroscience, integrating mind, body, and spirit. She believes that our wounds send us on our mission, so therapy with Nicole ensures that your struggles become strength. She compassionately helps you get to the root of your issues so you find long lasting transformative change.
Somatic therapy is a body-based talk therapy that works with the innate biological imperative to move towards wellness.
Nicole Toner, PhD
I’m fun and professional. I have street-cred and credentials. I can’t not be learning and you’ll benefit. I fear for our planet, yet I feel her coherence. I believe in me and I believe in you. I understand the hope and vulnerability.
I’m here for it!
Qualifications
Nicole has been a counsellor for over 15 years. The foundation of Nicole’s expertise was gained through academics and her counselling skills refined through her commitment to ongoing professional development, her capacity for depth and insight are grounded in her own personal healing. Transforming her own wounds into strength and compassion has cultivated her capacity to be fully present with her clients no matter what they bring to session.
BSCN UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
MN UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
1997
2009
PHD UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
2017
Company Values
Consilience Counselling is a value based small business in service to your mental health. It was founded with the mission to make somatic therapy for adults, kids and couples accessible as a primary mode of mental health treatment.
In my clinical practice I value organicity, unity, mind-body-spirit holism, mindfulness/presence, relational alchemy, and creative play. I prioritize continuing education so that I can offer you the most progressive research based services. I practice compassionately through a trauma-informed lens.
I believe that access to mental healthcare is a human right. In order to fight against stigma related to mental health treatment and create inclusive access to mental healthcare, I stand up, speak up, and take action against systemic oppression.
I am committed to deepening as a practitioner through my own healing work. I want to be as courageous and generous in my own work with my therapists as you are in your work with me. It just seems fair, after all we are all in process.
The therapy field is fascinating, meaningful and complex. I seek ongoing consultation and supervision to clarify and improve the services I provide you, and to nurture my capacity and my wellbeing to support how I show up for you.
I volunteer with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute because I believe deeply in the effectiveness of somatic therapy and I am passionate about bringing it to both new and seasoned clinicians. It is also a way to cultivate a community for deeply caring counselling professionals.
I donate to organizations that align with my values including:
Skipping Stone, a Calgary based charity leading the way in providing affirming care to trans and gender diverse youth, adults, and families.
Guardians of the Ice, is a Canadian nonprofit organization focused on the rapidly-shrinking Columbia Icefield as a leading indicator of the worldwide climate crisis. Through film, still photography and writing, they link the emotional power of art with the cognitive clarity of science, as a way to communicate the urgent implications of what the scientists are uncovering in the Icefield. Their slogan: Ice=Water=Life underscores their mission to mobilize a broad social movement around the retreat of the Columbia Icefield breaking the logjam of apathy and complacency towards the climate crisis.
Soul of Miistaki (mountain) “Miis-dah-gee”, was founded by a Blackfoot woman with the intention of offering diverse people an inclusive experience of the outdoors. Involvement in outdoor activities has the power to transform lives. They break barriers by offering the BIPOC community an earlier introduction to outdoor sports and promote representation in activities that are situated on traditional lands of the Indigenous people in Treaty 7 — fostering connection and healing through an Indigenous “Movement is Medicine” lens.