Psychotherapy

Paneet Mahal brings over a decade of counselling experience to the Integrated Neuro team. Paneet received her Masters in Social Work at the University of British Columbia and is registered with the College of Social Work. Paneet has been offering individual and family counselling in a variety of healthcare settings, including rehabilitation, palliative care and psychiatry. She provides counselling to individuals who are experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss.  As well as supporting loved ones through life transitions, relationship issues and bereavement.

Paneet provides a comfortable, safe environment for individuals to share their personal experiences, struggles and offers a warm space to discover one’s own strengths, limitations and resilience. In working from a strength based and holistic framework Paneet recognises the need to use a collaborative approach to achieve therapeutic goals for individuals. She draws on a blend of modalities such as cognitive behavioural therapy, individual/family system therapy, mindfulness and solution focused therapy to complement each person. Paneet believes counselling takes courage and looks forward to exploring personal transformation for a better wellbeing.

Jennifer believes that at the heart of the counselling process is the creation of trust, connection and compassion within the therapeutic relationship. This allows for a person’s inherent strengths, abilities and capacities to evolve, growth and healing to occur, and an enhanced awareness, understanding, and level of coping to be realized. Jennifer is a BC Registered Social Worker (RSW) with a Master of Social Work (MSW) from UBC. She has 25 years of experience in neurorehabilitation and has worked in a variety of health care settings, with a broad array of individuals and families from diverse backgrounds. 

 Jennifer has specialized skills and psychosocial knowledge about traumatic brain injury, concussion, stroke, neuromuscular skeletal disorders, and dementia. This includes helping people work through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief & loss, stress, adjustment to health changes, and relationship challenges. Jennifer incorporates a range of different approaches to facilitate client/family wellness including EMDR, mindfulness, cognitive behaviour therapy, and solution focused therapy, all of which are embedded in a trauma informed, systems perspective. She respects that people enter counselling for a variety of reasons. Jennifer welcomes the opportunity to work with you or your loved ones in a caring and supportive way to help you reach your rehabilitation goals and achieve an enriched quality of life.