Nia Counselling provides tailored trainings, team wellness supports, and consulting services for the non-profit sector. With nearly two decades of frontline and leadership experience in the non-profit sector, I bring a trauma-informed, culturally responsive approach to every session, supporting organizations, and frontline teams across Canada.
My work focuses on practical application, emotional safety, and realistic tools that support both staff and the communities they serve.
Training & Workshops:
Every training is purpose-built for organizations, and designed with clear objectives to engage, educate and provide practical tools for participants.
Sample workshop topics include:
- Trauma & Trauma-informed Care for Frontline Staff
- Managing Difficult Interactions & De-Escalation
- Responding to Gender-based Violence – A Guide for Settlement
- Navigating Integration and Managing Expectations in Frontline Work
- Boundary Setting within Diverse Communities
- Culturally Responsive Mental Health Support
- Addressing Mental Health as Non-clinicians
- Vicarious trauma, Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
Custom topics can be developed for teams of all sizes. Please contact me for a full list of workshops or to explore your organization’s goals.
Team Wellness Debriefs:
Frontline work comes with emotional load. Team debriefs provide a safe, restorative space for employees to reflect, connect, and rebuild. By normalizing processing and equipping your team with healthy coping and stress‐management strategies, these sessions help strengthen relationships, improve communication and deepen team learning.
Critical Incident Debriefs are also offered to organizations after a crisis situation that has impacted an organization or team. These debriefs help teams safely process the emotional and physiological response to the event and prevent longer-term stress reactions.
Settlement Wellness Hub
The Settlement Wellness Hub is a virtual wellness platform created specifically for frontline settlement staff. Members receive access to monthly live webinars, downloadable resources, guided practices, a monthly newsletter, and sector-specific wellbeing content designed to support emotional health throughout the year.
Organizational memberships allow agencies to offer their entire team ongoing wellness support in a sustainable, accessible format.
Consulting, Curriculum Development and Toolkits
I partner with organizations and funders on project-based initiatives including curriculum design, training development, research, toolkit creation, and strategic guidance. My consulting work is grounded in trauma-informed frameworks, community-centred practice, and practical implementation.
Projects include:
- Curriculum development for e-learning
- Facilitation guides and staff tools
- Mental health and wellness resource development
- Sector research and environmental scans
- Program design and evaluation
- Strategic consultation on frontline wellbeing
- National speaking engagements
Get in Touch
Whether you’re looking for staff training, a national-level speaker, team debriefs, curriculum development, or ongoing wellness supports, I’d be happy to explore how we can work together. Please reach out to discuss your goals or request a custom proposal.
Portfolio of organizations worked with on consulting projects:
