About Cara
LCT23-007, CCC.
Founder, Clinical Director & Family Therapist
Guiding Belief
“Awareness creates choice. Choice creates change.”
Helping individuals, families, and communities build healthier relationships—with themselves, with one another, and with the life they want to live.
Meet Cara
Cara Beth Elliott believes that meaningful change begins with understanding. When people gain greater awareness of their emotions, relationships, behaviours, and the stories they tell themselves, they become empowered to make choices that create healthier, more connected, and more fulfilling lives.
As the Founder and Clinical Director of Graystone Counselling & Consulting, Cara has dedicated more than 15 years to supporting children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, and organizations through life’s challenges. Her professional journey began in education, where she developed a deep understanding of child development, family systems, communication, and emotional wellbeing. Today, her work integrates counselling, family therapy, organizational consulting, and community mental health, allowing her to support clients across every stage of life.
Known for her warm, grounded, and collaborative style, Cara creates a therapeutic environment where clients feel genuinely heard, respected, and supported. Whether someone is navigating anxiety, addiction, grief, family conflict, relationship challenges, or significant life transitions, she works alongside them to understand not only what is happening, but why. Through greater awareness, practical strategies, and compassionate guidance, Cara helps clients build resilience, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Cara has developed a strong area of focus in family reunification and court-involved family work. She collaborates with parents, children, legal professionals, schools, and community agencies to rebuild trust, strengthen attachment, improve communication, and support the safe restoration of parent-child relationships. Her work emphasizes child-centred practice, emotional safety, and thoughtful, gradual relationship repair.
Beyond the therapy room, Cara is passionate about strengthening community mental wellbeing. She develops psychoeducational groups, workplace wellness initiatives, leadership training, and community mental health projects that promote emotional resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful connection.
Who Cara Supports
Cara works with:
• Children (6+)
• Adolescents
• Adults
• Seniors
• Individuals
• Couples
• Families
She also partners with schools, organizations, businesses, and community groups to strengthen mental wellbeing, healthy relationships, and psychologically safe environments.
Areas of Focus
Emotional Wellbeing
Anxiety, Depression & Stress Management
Developing emotional resilience while learning practical strategies to manage anxiety, depression, and the challenges of everyday life.
Anger Management & Emotional Regulation
Understanding emotional patterns, recognizing triggers, and developing healthier ways to respond with confidence, self-awareness, and self-control.
Grief, Loss & Life Transitions
Providing compassionate support through loss, change, uncertainty, and life’s most difficult transitions while fostering hope, healing, and resilience.
Motivation, Personal Growth & Life Direction
Helping clients gain greater self-awareness, clarify their values, overcome barriers, and move forward with confidence, purpose, and meaningful goals.
Relationships & Families
Family & Relationship Therapy
Strengthening communication, rebuilding trust, improving connection, and helping couples and families navigate challenges together.
Parenting Support
Supporting parents in strengthening relationships with their children while navigating emotional, behavioural, developmental, and family challenges with confidence and compassion.
Family Reunification & Parent–Child Relationships
Supporting families experiencing separation, conflict, disrupted parent-child relationships, or court involvement. Cara works collaboratively with parents, children, legal professionals, and community partners to rebuild trust, strengthen attachment, improve communication, and create emotionally safe pathways toward healthier family relationships.
Conflict Resolution & Relationship Support
Helping individuals, couples, families, and organizations develop respectful communication, collaborative problem-solving skills, and healthier approaches to conflict.
Recovery & Behavioural Change
Addiction & Recovery
Supporting individuals and families affected by substance use, gambling, and behavioural addictions through recovery-focused counselling, relapse prevention, and long-term resilience.
Leadership & Organizational Wellbeing
Organizational Mental Health & Leadership Consulting
Partnering with workplaces, schools, and organizations to strengthen leadership, foster psychologically healthy environments, improve communication, and promote employee wellbeing through evidence-informed consultation, training, and mental health initiatives.
Community Leadership
Cara believes mental wellness extends beyond the counselling office. She is passionate about creating opportunities for education, prevention, and connection within the broader community.
In addition to her clinical practice, Cara develops therapeutic groups, educational workshops, workplace training, and community mental health initiatives that encourage resilience, emotional awareness, and meaningful conversations about mental wellbeing.
She is also the co-creator of The Voices Within Project, a community initiative dedicated to raising awareness of the powerful conversations happening within our own minds while promoting self-compassion, resilience, and hope.
What Therapy Looks Like with Cara
Cara believes that healing begins with awareness.
Her approach is collaborative, practical, and deeply relational. She helps clients understand the connections between their thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, and life experiences while developing practical tools that support meaningful, lasting change.
Rather than focusing solely on problems, Cara works alongside clients to recognize patterns, strengthen relationships, build emotional resilience, and develop the confidence to move forward with greater clarity and purpose.
She believes every individual and every family has the capacity for growth. Therapy provides an opportunity to slow down, gain perspective, strengthen connection, and make choices that better reflect the life they want to create.
How Cara Works
Cara integrates evidence-informed approaches that are thoughtfully tailored to each client’s unique goals and needs, including:
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Family Systems Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Strategies
• Strengths-Based Practice
What You Can Expect
Cara is committed to creating a therapeutic experience where every client feels:
• Heard with compassion
• Respected without judgment
• Safe to explore difficult conversations
• Empowered to make meaningful choices
• Equipped with practical strategies for everyday life
• Strengthened in their relationships
• Confident in their resilience and capacity for growth
Whether she is supporting a child learning to manage emotions, helping parents reconnect with their children, guiding couples through relationship challenges, assisting individuals in recovery, or partnering with organizations to strengthen workplace wellbeing, Cara’s goal is always the same—to help people build healthier relationships and create lasting, meaningful change.
- Often treats
- AddictionADHDAgingAngerAnxietyBehavioral IssuesBinge eating disorder (eating disorders)Emotion RegulationFamily planning
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Gambling AddictionGrief, loss, bereavementImpulse Control DisordersPost-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD)Self EsteemSelf-harming or suicidal behavior - Sees
- Adults (18+) · Children (under 12) · Couples · Families · LGBTQ2+ · Seniors (65+) · Teens (13-17)
- Trained at
- B.Sc., B.Ed., MA (Counselling Psych.)
- Credentials
- Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C.) · Guidance cousellor · Licensed Counselling Therapist (LCT)
- Member of
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland · Yorkville University, Fredericton, Canada
Couple Therapy Session
2 optionsFamily Counselling Session
A family counselling session involves two or more family members attending together to work through challenges, improve communication, and strengthen relationships. This session is designed for…
2 optionsIndividual Counselling Session
2 optionsNB Medical Society Family/Couple Counselling Session
2 optionsNB Medical Society Individual Counselling Session
2 optionsParent & Child/Children Counselling Session
A counselling session for a parent or caregiver attending with their child or children. This session provides a supportive space to explore family concerns, strengthen the parent-child relationship,…
RCMP Family/Couple Counselling Session
2 optionsRCMP Individual Counselling Session
2 optionsVeteran Affairs Family/Couple Counselling Session
Veteran Affairs Individual Counselling Session
2 optionsVictim Services Individual Counselling Session
2 optionsVeterans Affairs Family/Couple Counselling Session
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