About Us

Opening hearts and minds

Counselling Concepts is an e-book publisher that specializes in counselling and psychology, with a particular interest in multicultural counselling and social justice. We are committed to making knowledge accessible to students, practitioners, and other educators in the helping professions through both low-cost commercial and free open-source resources.

What we do

Publication

As a small independent publisher, we feature resources that foreground innovation and creativity in counsellor education.

Consultation

We promote excellence in both online and face-to-face learning by providing consultation on how to be integrate them into counsellor education courses.

Knowledge Transfer

As supporters of open education resources (OERs), we profile existing learning tools that can be applied to multicultural counselling and social justice education.

Our core values

01. Accessibility

We are committed to making quality educational materials accessible to all.

02. Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

We actively promote cultural responsivity and inclusivity in all of our work.

03. Social Justice

By opening hearts and minds, we promote socially just counselling practice.

04. Creativity and Innovation

We strive to make learning interesting, engaging, provocative, and challenging.

05. Voice

We create space for critical voices often marginalized in counselling and psychology.

06. Leadership

We support professional leadership that reflects the diversity of Canadian culture.

Our leadership

As partners in life and in business, we capitalize on our shared strengths and passion for equity, diversity, and inclusion by promoting creative educational resources.

 

Contact Us


    Privacy Policy

    Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Counselling Concepts website, in particular requests for information or book orders.

    What personal data we collect?

    We collect the following types of personal information:

    • Name/Organization name
    • Address
    • Email address
    • Phone number

    For individual book orders through WooCommerce or PayPal, your name, email address, and phone number are retained by Counselling Concepts. 

    All other personal information falls under the PayPal Privacy Statement.

    How do we use your personal data?

    We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

    We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive and to provide information about ebook updates. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties. We use only your regional location (i.e., province) to assign and submit appropriate taxes.

    We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above.

    What rights you have over your data?

    If you have submitted order or information requests through this website, you can request to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, tax, or security purposes.

    Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call us at 1-250-818-8891 or send us an email at info@counsellingconcepts.ca.

    Is data collected by third parties?

    Counselling Concepts Publishing is not responsible for the content or practices of third-party websites that may be linked from this site.

    Embedded content from other websites (e.g. videos, images, articles) behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited those websites. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

    Copyright

    This site contains material that is owned or licensed by Counselling Concepts Publishing. You may not copy, reproduce, upload, post, distribute, republish, retransmit, or modify in any way any of the material on this site, including computer code and software. Only authors retaining copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices, may download material for your personal, non-commercial use or for publicity purposes.