Meet Colin

Counsellor

Hi, I'm Colin, and if there’s one thing I want you to know before we even meet, it’s this: healing doesn’t always have to feel heavy.

I came to counselling through people; naturally drawn to conversation, connection, and sitting alongside someone in whatever they may be carrying. Community, creativity, and joy are at the heart of who I am, and those values shape the way I show up both in life and in the counselling room.

I’m an optimist at my core. A glass-half-full, sunshine-on-my-face kind of person who believes that lightness and laughter can exist alongside the hard and meaningful work of healing, without ever minimizing what’s real.

The hard things deserve to be honoured, and I’ll be right here for that. But I also believe that even in our hardest climbs, there are moments of hope, growth, and light waiting for us along the trail to the summit.

Identity Exploration

Self-Discovery

Emotional Regulation

nARRATIVE tHERAPY

nATURE / ECO tHERAPY

sOMATIC tHERAPY

Colin's Education and Training

  • Professional Counselling Diploma - Rhodes Wellness College

  • Coaching Certificate - Rhodes Wellness College

Counselling with Colin

My counselling approach is rooted in narrative, person-centred, and somatic practices, with a growing passion for nature-based therapy. I see you as the author of your own story, and my role is to walk alongside you as you reconnect with your voice, your strengths, and the version of yourself you’re becoming.

Meet Our 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.

Kieren Brittkovich

Guiding relationships through

their hardest moments.

Sitara Thobani

We are each made of something more than we know.

Colin Herfst

Healing doesn’t have

to be heavy

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