Marcia Burton has an MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC. For over 25 years, she has supported individuals and families experiencing the effects of bereavement, trauma, stress-related illness, cancer, and challenges in relationship. She has worked for Island Health Authority as a counsellor for those experiencing mental health and substance use issues. Marcia maintains a private counselling practice on Salt Spring Island, integrating body-centered mindfulness and compassion focused therapies, to help clients to reconnect with their own strengths and inner wisdom.

Marcia brings a combination of gentleness, compassion, humour and playfulness to her work. She lives on Salt Spring Island, with her husband, and dog. She enjoys kayaking, gardening, writing poetry, knitting and walking on the beach.