Choose your own pathways
Embark on a journey to healing and growth.
You’re in the lead.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or lost, you’re not alone. This season can feel confusing and directionless, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Lightfooted Pathways Counselling is here to meet you exactly where you are. We will make sense of your world and untangle what’s holding you back— whether it’s self-doubt, self-sabotage, or the systems and people around you that keep you stuck.
Together, we’ll create strategies that help you forge a path forward with clarity and confidence.
You are here.
Ready for a new direction?
Hi, I'm Jody Lightfoot.
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), educator, and community builder based in North Vancouver, BC.
With a bachelor’s of Education, and master's degrees in both and Kinesiology (Coaching Science) and Counselling Psychology, I bring a unique blend of mental health expertise, movement, and nature-based insight to my counselling practice.
I believe that, much like navigating a trail, finding your way through life's challenges starts with learning to trust yourself, move at your own pace, and discover you're capable of more than you imagined.
Whether you're navigating ADHD, anxiety, depression, postpartum challenges, perimenopause, or a major life transition, you don't have to figure it all out alone.
Together, we'll explore what's keeping you stuck, reduce overwhelm, strengthen emotional regulation, and develop practical tools that fit your real life, helping you feel more grounded, focused, and confident in the path ahead.
I offer virtual counselling across British Columbia and nature-based walk-and-talk therapy in Deep Cove, North Vancouver.
Lightfooted Pathways Services
Find Your Flow
ADHD & Neurodivergence Counselling
Whether you’re newly diagnosed or still figuring out how your brain works best, this path helps you create systems that work for you, not against you. Together we’ll explore how your environment, energy, and focus patterns interact—and design routines that let your strengths shine. Expect momentum, humour, and small wins that add up to real change.
Harness your superpowers.
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… you are newly diagnosed or late-identified folks, perfectionists and procrastinators, students and professionals feeling scattered, stuck, or stalled. Also great for parents navigating family ADHD dynamics.
Common themes: motivation, time/energy management, emotional regulation, rejection sensitivity, self-worth, relationship repair.
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Our sessions will take place online via the Jane App secure video platform, offering the same depth and effectiveness as in-person therapy while saving you the time and energy of commuting.
If you prefer to meet in person, I also offer Therapy Hike sessions in Deep Cove, North Vancouver. If you live locally, I recommend you schedule at least one of your sessions to take advantage of this unique experience.
Our sessions will include:
Practical, compassionate structure based on your goals and priorities, doable systems, and accountability as you want it.
Somatic/experiential exercises for nervous-system regulation (move from freeze to flow).
Skills from CBT, ACT, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Strengths-based coaching.
Tools for communication, boundary-setting, and shame resilience.
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Most clients start by meeting weekly for about a month while we build stability and momentum.
As things begin to settle, we often shift to bi-weekly sessions for a few months to sustain progress and deepen insight.
From there, we move to monthly or as-needed check-ins to maintain your growth and respond to life as it evolves.
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I offer a standard rate of $150 per 50-minute session, in line with BC counselling guidelines. If cost is a concern, please reach out. We can explore options to help make therapy more accessible and sustainable for you.
Payment is due at the end of each session by debit or credit card. Receipts are provided and include my professional association ID for insurance reimbursement, where applicable.
Navigate Change
Life Transitions, Identity Growth & Nature-Based Therapy
Change can shake your sense of direction — but it can also open terrain you didn’t know was possible.
Through nature-based therapy, we use the rhythms of the natural world to support you through major life transitions — shifts in identity, relationships, career, health, parenthood, perimenopause, or menopause. Being outdoors can help regulate the nervous system, widen perspective, and create space to think more clearly.
Together, we explore what’s changing beneath the surface, tend to what feels destabilized, and strengthen your capacity to move forward with steadiness and self-trust.
Nature offers reflection, metaphor, grounding, and movement — especially when you feel stuck.
Navigate change with clarity & self-trust.
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… you are going through a new venture or career loss, pregnancy & postpartum, perimenopause menopause, relationship shifts, grief and identity re-orientation, and relocation/immigration.
Common themes: uncertainty, overwhelm, burnout, decision fatigue, meaning/purpose, values alignment.
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Our sessions will take place online via the Jane App secure video platform, offering the same depth and effectiveness as in-person therapy while saving you the time and energy of commuting.
If you prefer to meet in person, I also offer Therapy Hike sessions in Deep Cove, North Vancouver. If you live locally, I recommend you schedule at least one of your sessions to take advantage of this unique experience.
Our sessions may include:
A calm, structured container for reflection and forward movement.
Values mapping (ACT), narrative re-authoring, and a strengths-based approach.
Targeted skills from CBT, SFT, and Existential Positive Psychology to reduce stress and build momentum.
Somatic grounding for anxiety/anger, and rituals for closure/beginnings.
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Most clients find that meaningful change unfolds over about six months.
We usually begin with more frequent sessions to build momentum, then space them out as confidence and clarity grow.
In total, you can expect around 10–15 sessions, supported by gentle micro-practices between meetings to help you integrate what we explore into daily life.
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I offer a standard rate of $150 per 50-minute session, in line with BC counselling guidelines. If cost is a concern, please reach out. We can explore options to help make therapy more accessible and sustainable for you.
Payment is due at the end of each session by debit or credit card. Receipts are provided and include my professional association ID for insurance reimbursement, where applicable.
Reconnect & Restore
Women’s Health & Well-Being
There’s no going back, but forward into a new reality. Postpartum does not mean returning to a pre-baby state. Perimenopause is more than losing your periods.
Both experiences can bring about intense anxiety that won’t settle, disrupted sleep, brain fog, sudden rage, burnout that doesn’t improve with rest, lowered stress tolerance, and the unsettling thought: I don’t feel like myself.
Becoming a parent and midlife is also when long-standing patterns surface, including late-diagnosed ADHD, executive dysfunction, sensory overwhelm, and the realization that you’ve been masking and over-functioning for years.
This work helps you untangle what is hormonal, what is nervous system overload, what may be ADHD-related, and what is the accumulated weight of caregiving, productivity pressure, and self-abandonment.
Make sense of the shift & build strength from the inside out.
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Together, we:
Make sense of mood swings, irritability, anxiety, and sleep disruption
Address burnout, people-pleasing, and chronic over-functioning
Explore late-diagnosed ADHD and shifting cognitive patterns
Support emotional regulation and stress recovery
Rebuild self-trust in a changing body
My work is trauma-informed and nervous-system aware. We go at your pace, focusing on restoring stability, improving daily functioning, and building safety in your body during this hormonal and life-stage transition.
This is a space to stop blaming yourself — and start understanding what your body and brain are asking for.
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You are navigating perimenopause or menopause and feel anxious, irritable, exhausted, foggy, or unlike yourself
Sleep disruption, mood swings, or burnout are affecting your work or relationships
You feel dismissed, confused, or unsupported in medical or family systems
You are questioning identity, sexuality, partnership, career, or purpose
You sense this stage is asking for change — but you don’t want to implode your life to find it
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Our sessions will take place online via the Jane App secure video platform, offering the same depth and effectiveness as in-person therapy while saving you the time and energy of commuting.
If you prefer to meet in person, I also offer Therapy Hike sessions in Deep Cove, North Vancouver. If you live locally, I recommend you schedule at least one of your sessions to take advantage of this unique experience.
Our sessions may include:
Menopause-informed psychoeducation
Understanding hormonal and nervous system changes so you can stop blaming yourself for physiological shifts.Feminist, trauma-informed therapy
Exploring how gendered expectations, productivity culture, caregiving roles, and medical dismissal shape your experience — and reclaiming authority over your body and decisions.Somatic nervous system regulation
Gentle body-based practices to support sleep, reduce anxiety, ease irritability, and build internal steadiness.Narrative Therapy
Separating you from the problem (“I am failing” becomes “My nervous system is overwhelmed”) and reshaping your story with clarity and compassion.Attachment-aware, harm-reduction support
Grounded coping strategies for mood, relationships, and stability during transition.Clear, realistic goals
Sustainable shifts in boundaries, energy management, emotional regulation, and self-trust.
You set the pace. I bring steadiness, structure, and tools.
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This work unfolds gently over time.
Most clients meet one or two times per month for about a year, creating steady space for reflection, nervous system repair, and integration.
During more intense seasons — sleep disruption, acute stress, major decisions — we can add additional sessions to help you feel supported and anchored as you move through change.
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I offer a standard rate of $150 per 50-minute session, in line with BC counselling guidelines. If cost is a concern, please reach out. We can explore options to help make therapy more accessible and sustainable for you.
Payment is due at the end of each session by debit or credit card. Receipts are provided and include my professional association ID for insurance reimbursement, where applicable.
