Welcome to Five Star Wellbeing, we look forward to working with you!

Add your name to our waitlist to be notified immediately of last-minute cancellations, and please schedule an additional session(s) at weekly or bi-weekly intervals to ensure continuity of care.

Don’t have a credit card? For those seeking Financially Accessible Counselling, please email your requested date/time along with your name and phone number to info@fivestarwellbeing.com.***

Free Consultation

Want to be sure we’ll be a good fit to help you heal and achieve your goals? Book a free online counselling or workshop consultation.


In-Person Counselling Therapy

With therapeutic counselling, we support clients in the areas of mental health, addiction, healthy relationships, grief and loss, and career and life transitions.

Our job is to do more than help you recover, it’s to help you thrive. Whatever the challenges you face, we'll help you take stock, set goals and make the changes you need to be healthy and well.


Online Counselling Therapy

With therapeutic counselling, we support clients in the areas of mental health, addiction, healthy relationships, grief and loss, and career and life transitions.

Our job is to do more than help you recover, it’s to help you thrive. Whatever the challenges you face, we'll help you take stock, set goals and make the changes you need to be healthy and well.


In-Person Couple / Family Therapy

With therapeutic counselling, we support clients in the areas of mental health, addiction, healthy relationships, grief and loss, and career and life transitions.
Couples and Family Counselling aims to repair and heal the emotional connection between you and your partner and/or your family members. Counselling can help you reconnect and repair your relationship.


Online Couple / Family Therapy

With therapeutic counselling, we support clients in the areas of mental health, addiction, healthy relationships, grief and loss, and career and life transitions.
Couples and Family Counselling aims to repair and heal the emotional connection between you and your partner and/or your family members. Counselling can help you reconnect and repair your relationship.

Shane is a Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) in Nova Scotia, and a Canadian Certified Counsellor. Shane has extensive experience working with marginalized youth with the Department of Justice for 14 years. Doing that work, he developed the skills to help children, at-risk youth and young adults work through trauma, develop skills to manage emotions, make healthier choices, be more compassionate with themselves, and navigate their social lives.

Shane takes a strengths-based approach with the aim of building hope and lasting resilience. He draws on Narrative, Acceptance and Commitment and Dialectic Behaviour Therapy in his work.

Shane is a Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) in Nova Scotia, and a Canadian Cert... Read More

I am a Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) in Nova Scotia. I offer a safe, welcoming and compassionate space, while providing my expertise in an array of therapeutic approaches. Specializing in solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based approaches, I am able to help you explore and find solutions that support you in your healing journey. With a focus on wellbeing, health and connection, I create a space to reflect and discern, while offering tools to help nurture your path of growth. As a parent, school counsellor, and former teacher, I offer a diversity of lenses to support youth and families. In the early stages of my career, I had the opportunity to teach in China, Nunavut and many years for the AVRCE. Born and raised in the beautiful Annapolis Valley, I have deep understanding of the importance of connection to the land and community. My interests comprise of spending time in nature, growing food and connecting with friends and family. I am also a certified yoga teacher, which I incorporate in my daily wellness practice. I currently live in the Annapolis Valley with my husband Shane, son Angus, and several furry animals. Offering my services at our home office in Berwick, I am able to provide therapy indoors, or outside, in our scenic, private setting.

Therapeutic Focus: Anxiety, depression, relationships, self-image, stress and burnout, outdoor counselling

I am a Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) in Nova Scotia. I offer a safe, welcomi... Read More

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Located at: 34 Shaw Road, Berwick
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