Gentle guidance through your inner landscape

Confidential counselling, psychotherapy and consultation services with Gemma Armstrong. Support for you to heal, grow, and transform to align with your true nature.
Gemma looking into distance

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi

Feeling stuck? Struggling? Lost? Want help finding your way?


I can be your guide.

Together, we can navigate the challenges you’re facing with kindness and respect. We can discover new possible pathways toward the more peaceful, joyful and satisfying life you long for.

I offer outdoor and online therapy sessions for adults who want relief from suffering and who are ready to grow.

Tiny fern growing against stump
Fern covered in ice with icicles

” The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.”  – Joanna Macy

Gemma smiling in the forest

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

I’m Gemma Armstrong, a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) located in Nanaimo, BC. If you are looking for an experienced and truly caring guide to walk you through some of the difficult terrain in your life, you are in the right place.

Outdoor and Virtual Counselling and Psychotherapy Sessions for Adults

Outdoor Appointments

Individual appointments in person in outdoor locations around Nanaimo, BC

Gemma working on the computer

Online Appointments

Virtual appointments for individual clients in BC and AB

Clinical Consultation

Clinical consultation for developing Counsellors and Therapists in BC and AB

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“Gemma’s approach is like water. There is something in her very presence that reaches tender, vulnerable, and difficult places with an extraordinary gentleness. Her energy is soft and non-confronting, allowing things that might otherwise feel painful or challenging to be approached and received with greater ease. And yet, the impact is powerful. Like water, her presence can reach deeply and carve out meaningful change.

Her connection to the natural world feels woven into her being. She has a beautiful ability to weave another person’s experience into that connection in ways that feel meaningful, grounded, and alive.

Gemma is also deeply relational. She sees and reflects back poignant truths in a way that is gently disarming and easy to receive, yet can create profound shifts in how we understand and relate to ourselves and others. There is a rare combination in her of gentleness, depth, and impact.”

Lisa Kurytnik, Echo Healing