Why Fields of Hope Counselling?

This practice actually began as Delaney Chow Counselling. But as I started imagining its future, a practice that could grow beyond my own caseload 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 through people finding the courage to hope again, rebuilding one small act at a time, rather than through one dramatic turning point. 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 is quiet and unremarkable: ground tended season after season, with growth that reveals itself slowly, rather than a single bloom or a finished garden. That's the shape trauma, grief, and identity work actually take: slow, non-linear, blooming in ways that often surprise you.

As the practice has grown to include supervision alongside counselling, the metaphor has only grown more fitting: tending to clients and 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. I mean it as something grounded and considered, rooted in more than our circumstances alone. It's the posture that makes change possible even before the evidence for it is clear.