Rhandi Prystae, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) NO WAITLIST

Registered Clinical Counsellor | Kamloops, British Columbia

Reaching out for counselling often means something inside feels heavy, tender, or hard to carry alone. Many people are looking for a counsellor who feels safe, kind, and steady; someone who can sit with complexity without judgement. Rhandi Prystae is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, who offers a calm, compassionate, and trauma‑informed space where people can slow down, breathe, and begin to feel supported.

Rhandi works with people who are living with the impacts of trauma, relationship challenges, long‑standing emotional pain, anxiety, depression, grief, burnout, and major life transitions. Many people come to her feeling disconnected, sometimes either from themselves, from others, or from a sense of safety in their relationships. Others arrive unsure how to make sense of patterns they keep noticing or the ways past experiences still show up in the present. Rhandi is comfortable sitting with this complexity and brings patience, care, and steadiness to the therapeutic process.

In counselling with Rhandi you will be met with a trauma‑informed, attachment‑aware approach that honours how early relationships, life experiences, and emotional hurts can shape how you relate to yourself and others. Therapy is tailored to your needs and may draw from EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, and Emotion‑Focused Family Therapy. EMDR is offered, when appropriate, to help process difficult experiences and support your nervous system in finding more stability and ease. Emotional safety, consent, and readiness are always central to the work.

With over twenty‑five years of experience working within public and community systems, she offers support with an understanding of how overwhelming healthcare systems, workplace stress, and complex life demands can feel. At the heart of Rhandi’s work is a belief that healing happens in relationship. You’ll be supported with steadiness, care, and respect for your story, as you grow understanding, strengthen your relationship with yourself and others, and move toward a way forward that feels gentle, honest, and meaningful.

A bit about Rhandi

Outside of her clinical work, Rhandi enjoys living an engaged, active life. She shares her life with her husband, and together they are enjoying time outdoors as new RVers, exploring different places and landscapes along the way. Mindfulness and yoga have been part of Rhandi’s life since her earliest memories and continue to shape how she approaches everyday life and relationships. She spends as much time outdoors as she can, enjoying gardening, hiking, yoga, paddle boarding, snowshoeing, and cross‑country skiing. She is also a devoted dog mom to Raymond, her Australian Shepherd/Border Collie, who brings a lot of energy, connection, and joy into her daily life.

As a lifelong learner and an avid reader, she values curiosity, reflection, and growth. Although she uses evidence based modalities in her practice, she recognizes that it is not the only way of knowing or healing. Rhandi believes strongly in offering grace to herself and to others because she has, “lived fully and consequently at times, lost deeply”.  She understands that healing is not linear, that people grow through experience, and that being human means we continue to learn as we go.