Benefits of Counselling
When choosing a therapist, it is important that you have a close connection after a couple sessions of counselling. This is because counselling is a very sensitive event where sharing vulnerable moments and deep insights are what helps the client move on from issues from the past. I am fond of my clients, and even think of them often, even out of therapy. I have been blessed to work with wonderful people who have gone through such difficult trials.
1. Anxiety and Depression Counselling
Exploring the feelings, thoughts, and the origin of the emotional in counselling can be the starting point to recognizing a tailored treatment plan. For example, you could be delving into anxiety provoking situations in everyday life that have developed over trauma from the past. A different situation that could come up that you’re attempting to cope and manage feelings of depression in which activity and positivity are fleeting. Perhaps you struggle with understanding emotion and that you also avoid connection. All of these struggles can be analyzed as well as helped with tools that I can give you in therapy.
- ANXIETY AND/OR DEPRESSION PACKAGE: 4 SESSIONS (suggested).
- You will be taught tools to be able to manage your anxiety or depression.
- Session 1: The first session focuses on how depression or anxiety is or has been affecting you in present day to day life: your behaviors, feelings and thoughts and where they stem from in current day. You will be asked to document thoughts, feelings and behaviors (good and bad) outside of therapy as a homework assignment.
- Session 2: We will talk about what events have happened since we last talked. We will restructure the thoughts from your previous homework as well as make a chart to do with behavioral activation and living your most positive life day to day. We will find the goals of therapy and make a point of including all of your goals in the behavioral activation plan. You will be sent with homework to analyze your automatic thoughts to do with the anxiety/depression.
- Session 3: We will analyze homework and talk about how to do thought replacement to do with automatic thoughts. You will then be asked to give examples of anxiety and depression throughout your past back to childhood and do a short verbal assessment to do with family history of anxiety/depression, and what medications you take. You will then fill out a screening tool as homework that is scientifically proven to gauge the level of anxiety or depression that you have.
- Session 4: You will be told your score to the screening tool, explain how the new schedule is working, and explain any other childhood/current issues and how to restructure them. We end with lessons on relaxation techniques to change the nervous systems reaction to stress. This wrap up session includes handouts and information for behavioral activation/thought replacement and relaxation techniques as well as a summary of your screening tool and assessment for depression and anxiety.
2. Separation Anxiety and Trauma Counselling
In being trained as a psychotherapist I have numerous strategies that can help any kind of emotional turmoil through counselling. Relationship issues can benefit from communication skills. Attachment issues can benefit from insight into how to develop and strive as an individual who is calm versus someone riddled with separation anxiety. Someone with trauma who encounters feelings of terror and anger can ground themselves in the present moment and avoid falling into a whirlwind of unmanageable rage.
3. Setting Goals and Parenting Counselling
The truth is that as humans we have so many experiences that counselling can help. Goal setting can be a catalyst for change in the future. Having insight into parenting strategies as well as the status of a child’s developmental and psychological issues can change the connection of child and parent. I have strategies to help you heal the deep pain of grief and loss. All of these concerns and hurts are things I have seen and treated in counselling.
4. Divorce or Addiction/Alcoholism Counselling
Leaving a counselling session with insight, being understood, and releasing pain can change people. This transformation can happen to people from all walks of life. In my beginning stages of counselling I didn’t realize that we ALL have a past that makes our lives a challenge at times. For example, you could be feeling guilt and depression because of a divorce. This could mean that your pain comes from disconnection, betrayal, grief, loss, financial issues, legal issues, and feeling powerless. Perhaps your duties as a parent have shifted drastically. Perhaps the loss means you need support so badly from friends and family but even that can’t console you.
5. Alcoholism/Addiction
A lack of self-care can leave someone burnt out and feeling angry. Sometimes this can be linked to addiction/alcoholism and sometimes not. No matter the situation that brings on addiction or alcoholism, I have proven strategies to help you use or drink less and to begin taking power over your usage. Whether it is divorce or it is addiction/alcoholism, I am trained in either so that I can help you alleviate your suffering.
5. Infidelity Counselling and Attachment Issues
If you are someone who is the victim of infidelity, counselling is for you. I think it is also important to counsel people who can’t stop themselves from cheating. I support my clients to be their best and empower them to change. To see a new path, to forge a new way. I will be that person to you. You can commit to the process and make these changes. Find out why this is happening.
6. Eating Disorder Counselling
A step-by eating too much or too little? Are you at the mercy of impulses that you are now overwhelmed with? Counselling is the way to recognize these patterns. Have things gotten so out of control that you can’t see a way out? I can show you through counselling what is happening in your body and brain. It is the reason that you lean on these processes. I can give you tools so that you have more tools to find new avenues to escape this.
7. Hoarding Counselling
Are you noticing that your space is becoming unmanageable? Is the pain blanketed by things? Is this your safe space under the mound of items? Counselling can bring a more realistic approach to the reason you have collected and haven’t let go. A step-by-step plan can be made, and weaknesses can be recognized where you can move ahead.
8. Behavior Management Counselling
I am trained in the skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) which is a program that helps anyone reach peaceful emotion. Used properly it can be you from chaos to self-awareness and grounding in the present moment. The skills also create a protective barrier where unmanaged emotion cannot easily resurface. If you see intense emotion and want to know where it is coming from, this is for you. If how to manage it is important to you, training in DBT is for you.
9. Finding Community Resources in Counselling
If you’re someone who needs connections to housing, alcohol treatment, or support groups in your area, I can connect you. If you are looking for a learning disability assessment for you or your children, I can find a place to get those assessments done. I can help with health card renewal information and phone numbers if needed. I can make suggestions on when to consult your psychiatrist or physician, as well as other resources in the health field can be connected to with my help if you need assistance.
Counselling can be an uncertain space to enter into for the first time. Know that I have experience in helping you and that counselling is my passion. Psychology has been an interest of mine for the last 20 years and why subsequently it became my career. Be confident in me and my openness to a sincere and true connection that supports change. You can decide to move ahead with leaving behind unwanted thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Seeing change through counselling can be life-changing and something that can give a person hope, love and change.
**Currently I am not seeing clients with extreme personality disorders. I am also not counselling suicidal clients, or clients who are at risk for harming others. Please contact the Canadian Mental Health support page below for emergency numbers if you are at risk:
Canadian Mental Health Support Page
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I have a YouTube channel where I love to share important information to do with mental health issues and examples. I have done videos on several topics. Dialectical Behavior Therapy which is a treatment that helps with the ability to manage emotions which I am interested in. Abuse to do with narcissists as well as toxic behavior is of interest to me. Other videos contain tips on handling depression. Dysfunctional relationships are examined and strategies are given. The link for my YouTube is below: (like and subscribe!):
