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What clients carry out of Fern Banner’s office — or away from an online session — is a clearer sense of where they’ve been, what’s been weighing on them, and a more purposeful direction forward. Fern works as a Registered Psychotherapist in London, Ontario, helping children, teenagers, adults, couples, and families move through some of the harder seasons of life: abuse and its aftermath, infidelity, family conflict, addiction, and the quiet erosion that comes from years of unspoken pain.

Her practice draws on individual counseling, marriage and family therapy, and consultation, with particular care for survivors of abuse, molestation, and neglect — including those navigating rape recovery and child abuse recovery. She also works with families sorting out the friction that builds when everyone is physically present but emotionally elsewhere, whether that’s a teenager deep in their phone at dinner or parents who can’t agree on how much screen time is too much. For those whose faith matters to them, Fern integrates Christian counseling into her work.

Putting words to an experience — even a painful or confusing one — has a measurable effect on how the mind processes it. Fern’s approach gives people the structure and the objective perspective to do that work, and to leave with something real: steadier footing, a quieter mind, and a life that feels more like their own.