About Our Collective

Meaningful change is born in connection — within yourself and with others. Our work is rooted in the idea that you are more than your present moment. You are shaped by patterns carried across relationships, families and generations, held within communities and contexts that have left their mark.

Counselling tends carefully to these layers and the ways they have shaped how you think, feel and connect with what truly matters. We bring this frame to the work, not as something to define you by, but as a way of making these layers more visible. Generational ties carry losses and limitations, they can also be sources of unexpected strength. Relationships that have challenged you can also shed light on your deepest needs. This deeper understanding is not just about making sense of what has shaped you. It is about what becomes possible when we do.

Each person carries capacities for resilience and growth, whether known or still emerging. This is not incidental to the work we do. It is central to it. Our collaborative approach allows therapy to unfold around you — your emotional experiences, your relationships with others, and your place in the wider world. Our work is to tend to this carefully, helping you find your ground within yourself and in the connections around you.

Meet The Team

We believe that different ways of working offer different ways of seeing.

Summit Within brings together three practitioners whose approaches are genuinely complementary — not by accident, but by design. Between us, our practice is at once emotionally alive, structurally grounded, and always in search of meaning.

Colin Herfst

Healing doesn’t have

to be heavy.

Kieren Brittkovich

Guiding relationships through

their hardest moments.

Sitara Thobani

We are each made of something more than we know.

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