About Ione
Meet Ione Hepburn.
I'm the founder of Cultivating ClearPaths, a licensed counselor who helps people notice patterns, understand their present experience, and consider meaningful choices.
"Imagine a life where your vulnerabilities have become your strength."
I'm warm, observant, direct, and reflective. I'll meet you with compassion and attention, and I'll also gently challenge the patterns that keep you stuck, because that's often where movement begins.
My counselling is grounded in Gestalt therapy, with couples work that is Gottman-informed. I trained in Gestalt therapy with Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles (GATLA), and I have completed Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 3 training. Alongside my clinical training, I bring a background in human resources, training and facilitation, organizational development, leadership and workforce development, labour relations, program design, and workplace learning. All of it shapes how I understand people, systems, and change.
I practice ethically, with cultural awareness and confidentiality at the centre of everything I do. This is an inclusive, LGBTQ+ affirming practice, and I welcome clients of all identities, orientations, and backgrounds.
I have been the client. I have been the partner. I have been the employee, and I have been the manager. So I don't come to this work with qualifications alone. I come with the heart, the experience, and the knowledge of having walked my own path. Yours is your own, and I would be glad to walk it with you.
I hold the space for you that I once wanted held for me.
Curious whether we're a good fit?
Credentials & training.
Licensed by the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board as a Professional Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LPCC), License No. CTB-2026-0319 — issued April 20, 2026, expiring September 30, 2027. Verify this license ↗ NCC, CLC, and C-MI are professional certifications, not government licenses. Gottman Level 3 Trained; working toward Certified Gottman Therapist status.
My Approach
Grounded in awareness and choice.
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Present-moment awareness
Noticing what is happening now, in thought, feeling, and body.
02
Patterns & choice
Understanding the patterns shaping your experience, and where choice remains.
03
Relational & embodied
Experiential exercises where they help, grounded in relational awareness.
04
Caring, and gently challenging
Compassion paired with honesty about the patterns that keep you stuck.
Values I return to.
These aren't slogans. They're the commitments I return to in every session and every professional decision.