
Relationship Counselling: Relationship Support for Individuals
Understanding the patterns between you and the people in your life, and where they began.
Relationship Counselling for Individuals in Brockville
Relationships can be deeply meaningful and deeply challenging. Many people come to therapy stuck in patterns that keep repeating, confused by their own reactions, or unsure how to stay close to someone while also protecting themselves. You don’t need to be in couples therapy to work on relationships, and you don’t need to have it figured out.
We understand relationships as something we learn within, not something we master alone. Our work focuses on making sense of your relationships, past and present, and how they shape the way you connect, communicate, and respond to others.
Where Patterns Come From
Drawing on attachment theory and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), we look at how early relationships shaped the ways you connect now.
Saying What You Need
Room to practise boundaries, speaking up, and staying yourself in conflict, in ways that feel true to you.
Therapy offers a space to explore:
- Patterns that keep repeating
- How the past shows up in current relationships
- Boundaries, needs, and emotional reactions
- Conflict, distance, or people pleasing
- Breakups, family dynamics, and relationship stress
Focus Areas
Relationships Therapy FAQs
Q. How can individual therapy help if my partner isn’t there?
Relationships are systems. When one person understands their patterns and responds differently, the whole dynamic can shift. Individual therapy gives you space to focus on your side of things.
Q. Is this only for romantic relationships?
Not at all. We work with relationships of all kinds, including parents, siblings, children, friends, and colleagues.
Q. What is attachment theory?
Attachment theory looks at how early relationships with caregivers shape the way we connect as adults. Understanding your own patterns can bring a lot of clarity.
Meet the Clinicians
Each of these clinicians works with this area. If you’re not sure who to choose, we’re happy to help you find a good match.

Meredith Armstrong, MSW, RSW
Owner, Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Meredith Armstrong is a Registered Social Worker and the owner of St. Lawrence Psychotherapy and Wellness. She has been doing this work since 2001, and it has never once felt like just a job to her.

Jim Page, MS, RSW
Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Jim is a Registered Social Worker with a Master of Science in Human Services from Capella University, MN. He has more than 20 years of experience providing individual, couple and family therapy in private practice as well as community agency and hospital outpatient settings.

Genevieve Fincher, MSW, RSW
Social Worker
Genevieve Fincher is a classically trained clinical social worker who graduated from the University of South Carolina and has over 20 years of experience working in adult and children’s mental health.

Charlotte (Charlie) MacDonald, RP (Qualifying)
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Charlotte, also known as Charlie, is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who recently graduated from Yorkville University and has joined the St. Lawrence Psychotherapy and Wellness Team.

Lia Forma, MSW, RSW
Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Lia is a Social Worker with over 15 years of experience across community and residential settings. She has walked alongside people through mental health struggles, addiction, trauma, intimate partner violence, and women’s health, and she brings that same steady presence to the men who come to her too. She’s especially attuned to the particular pressures and expectations that can shape how men cope, communicate, and carry what they’re going through, often quietly, and often for a long time before they ask for help.

Mandy LeBlanc, MSW, RSW
Social Worker
Mandy is a Registered Social Worker with more than 22 years of experience in the mental health and addictions field, working across both community and institutional settings. Since beginning her Social Work education in 2002, she has completed her Master of Social Work degree along with a variety of additional courses and professional certifications to further support her clinical practice.

Mackenzie Howard, RP (Qualifying)
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Mackenzie works with adolescents and adults who are exhausted from always being the strong one, who overthink conversations, worry about disappointing people, and struggle to put themselves first without guilt. She helps people move out of people-pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, and self-doubt, and toward healthier boundaries, more trust in their own judgment, and more peace day to day.

Karen Gillis, MSW, MA, RSW
Social Worker
Karen works with teens, students, young adults, and professionals navigating perfectionism, OCD, ADHD, anxiety, and burnout. Many of the people she sees are capable and driven, and used to holding things together even when they’re overwhelmed, overthinking everything, or exhausted from trying to keep up.
Other Areas of Support
Most people come in with more than one thing on their mind.

Emotional Neglect
For people who grew up with their feelings overlooked, and learned to need very little.

Anger
Anger usually shows up for a reason. We’re curious about what yours has been trying to say.

Life Transitions
Support through change, whether it was chosen, sudden, or still unfolding.
