Why Fields of Hope Counselling?

This practice actually began as Delaney Chow Counselling. But as I started imagining its future — not just my own caseload, but a practice that could grow to include other clinicians who share the same vision — I knew it needed a name bigger than mine.

Where the Name Comes From

"Fields of Hope Counselling" is drawn from the ending theme of an anime, composed by one of my favourite composers. The scene it accompanies imagines a world recovering from war and devastation — not through a single dramatic turning point, but through people finding the courage to hope again, and rebuilding, one small act at a time. That image of a single seed of hope rippling outward stayed with me. It felt like exactly what this work is.

What "Field" Means

A field isn't dramatic. It's not one flower or a finished garden — it's ground tended season after season, with growth that isn't always visible day to day. That's the shape trauma, grief, and identity work actually take: slow, non-linear, blooming in ways you don't always see coming.

As the practice has grown to include supervision alongside counselling, the metaphor has only grown more fitting — tending not just to clients, but to the counsellors supporting them through an uncertain world.

What "Hope" Means

Eleanor Roosevelt once called hope the most important word in the English language — and I don't mean it as blind optimism, but something grounded in more than our circumstances alone. It's the posture that makes change possible even before the evidence for it is clear.