Bridge Counseling

I was a client under my actual first name. - pretty bad experience, would not recommend trying the counselors here. I feel much worse after going for months.Edit: it's hard to give names/details, but immensely helpful. Here I am getting brave. I keep changing my review because my experience was honestly so poor that I have trouble describing it.Brian McDonald is very toxic. I went for couples counseling for about 8 sessions. I wasn't heard at all, I was ignored, my abuser (male) was constantly validated in front of me (and in front of him, it was couples) (I pointed this out to him and he seemed confused, and continued to do it). Treated me the entire time as if I was just unable to control my emotions. Never talked about stuff I asked to talk about.Ex: When I (female) said I wanted to talk about how to trust in my relationship again, he told me that women care a lot more about honesty than men

Brian was our counsellor. He spent time asking about private medical information that was not germane at all to our conversation/the counselling session, he started talking about his own book, bringing up stories about other clients (not in detail, but to suggest somehow their relevance to our situation???), he dwelt a lot on clinical definitions of mental health, and little of it really to our benefit. Maybe he's good in some situations, but would not recommend him personally. Not as empathetic as much as all over the place.

I went to Bridge City Counselling for myself and with my husband. Personally, at first I was not sure what to say or how it would be perceived. Yet Dallas was always kind, patient and welcoming to my openness and feelings. I never felt judged or ridiculed, even when sometimes I had to be told the hard truth, it was always done with kindness and with tools to adjust my thinking if I wanted to change.As a couple we always felt such a sense of trust, patience and respect from both Dallas & Susan for our marriage and for our different personalities. I very much appreciated having both Dallas & Susan counselling us for the couple's portion as it gave us the ability to see things from different points of view.Many years later and my husband and I are still happily married as we continue to use the tools we were given from Bridge City Counselling. We have and will continue to recommend them to anyone we can.

Finally, a counseling group that gets" me. Insightful

I saw Milton once and received only entry level counselling. Would not go back. My partner and I saw Dallas twice and I returned with great caution as he had become enraged in one of the previous sessions. I challenged him in the third session on his obvious bias; he reverted to denial. I challenged him on not having done his own healing work before counselling others and to that he went into a rage and discontinued the session. I strongly discourage anyone seeing either one of these toxic counselors""

Fantastically helpful. A warm, caring environment. HIGHLY recommended.

Terrible counselor. Do yourself a favour - avoid these uneducated, unqualified, toxic counselors like the plague.

I went to see Tania at Bridge Counselling for a year. It was truly a life changing experience! Therapy isn`t cheap, but I can tell you it is absolutely worth every penny. If you are on the fence about going, I would highly, highly recommend!

I had such a positive experience with my counsellor, Susan. I felt heard, respected and understood. I have recommend Bridge Counseling to many of my friends because I was very happy with my experience there.