Audrey Rutter

Registered Social Worker (MSW)

Audrey Rutter is a Registered Social Worker located in Burlington, Ontario. Audrey offers in-person counselling, video counselling and phone counselling to youth (16 years old +), adults, and families. 

Audrey works with adults struggling to manage their emotional experience alongside a disordered relationship with food, body image, self-esteem, and identity. She brings a trauma-informed perspective to her practice valuing transparency, consent, and collaboration counselling. Her approach is client-centred, focusing on your desired outcomes and strengths.  

 

Her office is a non-judgmental space for clients, offering a gender and identity-affirming practice for individuals in the LGBTQIA+ community. Audrey is passionate and dedicated to supporting you, believing in an individualized and integrative treatment approach drawing from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion focused Therapy (EFT), Polyvagal Theory, and Mindfulness to reconnect with your body.

 

While encouraging the practice of self-compassion in your healing journey, Audrey herself practices journaling and work-life balance. She prioritizes a healthy relationship and mindset with food and her body. She loves being in nature, walking, biking, stretching, and watching reality tv with her friends or kitties (also named after food). 

More About Audrey

Counselling provided: Individual Counselling for Youth (16 yr old +) and Adults, and Family Counselling

 

Specialities: Low Mood, Anxiety, Managing Emotions, Suicidal Thoughts, Trauma, Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating, Body Image, Gender Identity Issues, and Sexual Identity Issues.

 

​​Modalities: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Eating Disorders (CBT-E), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, Trauma Informed Therapy, Somatic Regulation Interventions.

 

Availability: Audrey is accepting new clients both in-person and virtually

 

Schedule:

Wednesdays: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Thursdays: 1:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Fridays: 1:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Saturdays: 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

 

Location: Burlington, Ontario

Certification:

Level 1, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Wilfrid Laurier University

September, 2023

 

Certification:

Level 1, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Eating Disorders

Wilfrid Laurier University

April 2024

 

Certification:

Level 2, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Trauma 

Wilfrid Laurier University

February 2024

 

Certification:

Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies 

Collectively Rooted

2023

 

Certification:

Sexual Violence Response  

Wilfrid Laurier University

2023

 

Certification:

Applied Suicide Intervention Training   

Canadian Mental Health Association

2022

 

Certification:

Sexual Trauma Clinical Training   

Erika Shershun

2024

 

Certification:

Sexual Fallout from Trauma and PTSD    

Suzanne Lasenza

2024

 

EDUCATION

 

Master of Social Work Degree

Wilfrid Laurier University

2024

 

Bachelor’s Degree

Sociology

Brock University

2022

 

Social Service Worker Diploma (SSW)

Niagara College

2016

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