Jacqueline Greenough, PhD, MEd, RCT, CCC

Manager/Registered Counselling Therapist

Jacqueline is a Registered Counselling Therapist and serves as the Manager of Counselling Services. A graduate of Mount Saint Vincent University, she has a PhD in Educational Studies, and a Master of Education degree in Counselling from Acadia University. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) and holds licensure with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists (NSCCT).

Jacqueline’s employment background spans twenty-five years as an educator and counsellor in private and public K-12 schools, post-secondary institutions, and governmental agencies. She has a depth of experience supporting adolescent and post-secondary students, and she understands the range of personal and academic concerns students encounter as they enter and undertake university study and as they prepare to transition into the workforce.

Jacqueline’s counselling orientation is strongly person-centred. She believes a positive therapeutic alliance is fostered through a partnership between equals (client-therapist) in curious exploration of personal experiences, perspectives, and possibilities. Building trust and understanding in a non-judgmental, safe space underpins her therapeutic approach.

Keeping in mind that therapy is an emerging and dynamic process, Jacqueline selects from a variety of psychotherapeutic tools and modalities, including career development theory, to fluidly and appropriately respond to the needs of each student in her care.

Therapeutic Orientation: Rogerian/Person-centred; Narrative therapy; Trauma-informed care; Solutions focused counselling; Mindfulness; Existentialism; Creative/arts-informed approaches to inviting voice

Research Interests: Qualitative approaches to knowledge production; Critical theory/pedagogy; Anti-oppressive pedagogies and research approaches; Narrative Inquiry; Poststructuralist approaches to research and pedagogy; Arts-informed research; Asset/strengths-based pedagogies; Student-centred research/inviting student voice

For inquiries about Counselling Services, please email jacqueline.greenough@msvu.ca

Lisa MacNeil, MEd, RCT, CCC

Registered Counselling Therapist

Lisa is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCCC) and Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists (NSCCT). She is available to support students through the challenges, transitions and growth that come with student life. Whether you are navigating academic stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, identity exploration, or life transitions, Lisa strives to offer a warm, non-judgmental space.

Lisa believes that each person holds their own inner wisdom, and her role is to facilitate exploration and discovery. Her approach is integrative and tailored to each person’s specific hopes for counselling. She draws from a range of therapeutic modalities, including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), attachment-based therapy as well as mindfulness.

She has a particular interest in supporting students with relationship concerns, ADHD/anxiety, life transitions, women’s issues, and establishing (or re-establishing) self-care practices.

Todd Hunter, MA, RCT-C, CCC

Registered Counselling Therapist – Candidate

Todd is a Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists and a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. He has a Master of Arts degree from Concordia University in Drama Therapy (Creative Arts Therapy). As a member of the North American Drama Therapy Association, Todd has worked with individuals, groups and organizations throughout Canada as well as abroad. His therapeutic approach employs Drama Therapy techniques paired with Client-centered therapy (a humanistic approach), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). He focuses on an integrative holistic therapeutic experience for his clients’ which aids in building resilient, inner strength for individuals in need of support.

While his counselling services are open to all identities he specializes in supporting BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and LGBTQIA2S+ communities. His is a safe, nurturing and soul feeding environment for healing.

Tanya Beetge, MEd, RCT-C

Registered Counselling Therapist – Candidate

Tanya is a Registered Counselling Therapist Candidate (RCT-C) with the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists. She holds a Master of Education degree in Counselling from Acadia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies from Carleton University. Tanya has experience working with individuals navigating major life transitions, providing understanding and support as they carve a path through uncertainty and change.

Tanya’s therapeutic style can best be described as integrative, drawing from a variety of modalities to tailor the counselling process to fit the unique needs of individual students. In particular, Tanya’s approach is informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Narrative Therapy, and she maintains a strong commitment to neurodiversity and queer affirming practice.

Tanya appreciates that post-secondary education can present both opportunities for growth and multilayered challenges. Whether students are feeling misunderstood, alone, overwhelmed, or grappling with past wounds, Tanya strives to provide a space of curiosity and compassion where they can feel seen and heard. In this collaborative setting, Tanya supports students in making sense of their experiences, exploring what is most important to them, and working towards greater empowerment and balance in their lives.

Kyla Friel, MEd, RCT, CCC

Registered Counselling Therapist

Kyla has a Master of Education in Counselling from Acadia University, a Certificate in Public Relations Management from McGill University, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in French from Mount Saint Vincent University. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor and a Registered Counselling Therapist.

Kyla has had the privilege of working with young adults, adults, and families to explore sudden or tragic deaths, multiple deaths, significant loss, and anticipatory grief; working in hospital and hospice settings, live-in residences, and post-secondary. From experience, Kyla often finds that when we become aware of our grief or loss and pair it with compassion and micro-actions, we can navigate our way through. In this way, mindfulness-based approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Solution-focused Therapy can be useful in our work.

Students can expect a warm, respectful, and resourceful space to help them understand more — going at their pace — about the death or loss they’re experiencing and how they would like to show up in their relationships, commitments, and studies at the Mount. Grief is life-changing, after all.