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Welcome
We offer comfortable counselling services in Sudbury, ON to help you feel at home.
Supporting Positive Change.
Counselling helps us make sense of ourselves and the world around us: our feelings, our thoughts, our behaviours, and our relationships. It’s also the place we can make changes happen. At White Pine Counselling, I can help you.
Relationship Difficulties
Grief & Loss
Childhood Abandonment, Neglect & Trauma
Parenting Struggles
Stress & Burnout
The Effects of Addiction
Depression & Anxiety
Understanding & Processing Feelings
Fees for Counselling Services
We have introduced a sliding fee scale based on affordability and the individual’s ability to pay (in order to avoid financial hardship). The standard fee schedule at White Pine Counselling is $195 per hour. Sessions are usually one hour in length. Payment is made at the end of each session by e-transfer, cash, debit, or credit card.
Insurance & Employee Assistance Plans
If your place of work entitles you to extended medical benefits or has an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP or EFAP), find out if counselling services or therapy is covered and who is to provide these services. It is preferred that clients pay up front and then have their insurance companies reimburse them. Fees for clients with First Nation status are covered through Indigenous Services Canada. However, Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) does not cover counselling fees.
Meet Erma Howe
Your Psychotherapist
Erma was born in Malaysia, and spent a lot of her childhood in Africa. When she was 10, she moved to Canada with her Canadian-born father and Indigenous Indonesian mother. Erma earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology and her Masters degree in Social Work. She has been a psychotherapist for over thirty years specializing in trauma, grief and loss, death and dying, and relationship issues. White Pine Counselling Centre, was established in 1996 by Erma and her husband, Michael White, Ph.D.
Erma’s pastimes include nature walks with dog companions, reading, and quality time with her partner Michael White (retired counsellor), her German Shepherd Billy, and sharing laughter (and tears) with those she journeys with. She loves going on annual silent retreats and visiting family and friends near and abroad.
