ABOUT
Dr. Keara Rodd (she/they) is a Registered Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia (R. Psych #2885) living and working on traditional and unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, including the Songhees and Esquimalt nations, and the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. Dr. Rodd has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Victoria and completed her pre-doctoral residency with Eastern Health in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Dr. Rodd has worked in a variety of mental health settings including community mental health, hospitals, and university counselling centres.
Dr. Rodd has particular expertise and experiences working with individual’s with concerns related to trauma and post-traumatic stress, disordered eating, interpersonal difficulties, and life transitions. Her research has largely focused on how traumatic experiences, including discriminatory experiences and minority stress, impact one’s attachment system and mental health symptoms.
“We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.”
Approach
Dr. Rodd embraces a humanistic and collaborative approach to working with others. This means that she values your lived experiences, your wisdom and expertise, and believes in the innate and unconditional worth of each person. She views the therapeutic relationship and the therapy room as a space to honour what is and what has been, without judgment. She integrates a variety of approaches into her humanistic foundation, such as emotion-focused therapy (EFT), narrative, internal family systems therapy (IFS), mindfulness, dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
Dr. Rodd brings compassion, warmth, curiosity, and creativity to her sessions. She believes treatment should be unique to each individual and should consider the context of each person’s life. She is sensitive to the ways an individual’s network and larger societal systems shape their experiences. She has expertise working with diverse clients, particularly the LGBTQ+ community. When Dr. Rodd is not working, she can often be found in nature with her wife and her dog, reading and writing, appreciating art and music, and exploring the beauty of Vancouver Island.