Andrea Gurney

Walking into a first session with Andrea Gurney, clients often find that the work begins not with a checklist but with a conversation — one that moves at their pace, holds space for complexity, and treats their history as something worth understanding rather than fixing. Based in Peterborough, Ontario, Andrea brings over two decades of post-graduate practice to individual, couples, family, and group counselling, with particular depth in trauma, attachment, and the emotional patterns that quietly shape how people move through relationships and daily life.

She works with children, teenagers, adults, and families navigating a wide range — anxiety, depression, grief, abuse recovery, addiction, and the particular exhaustion that sets in when someone has been running on adrenaline for too long. For clients whose sleep has collapsed or whose nervous system never fully settles because the phone is always within reach, that physiological toll is something Andrea addresses directly in her clinical work.

Her therapeutic toolkit draws on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, somatic approaches, and EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — matched to each client’s needs. She also provides clinical supervision for practitioners, using an attachment-oriented framework that invites supervisees to examine how their own experiences shape the therapeutic relationship.