ABOUT MY WORK
What kind of issues do I work with ?
I primarily work in areas relating to Overall Individual and Relationship Counselling, Crisis Intervention, Addictions as well as Sexuality and Intimacy. Within these areas, and towards creating greater acceptance, clarity and happiness, I work with issues relating to expanding overall life purpose and satisfaction, as well as clarifying and healing from confusion, trauma, depression, grief and anxiety that may be presenting in your overall life.
What kind of work do I do?
I work with clients using successfully proven methods and practices that take your unique personal qualities and situation into consideration as we explore and better identify how our thoughts, feelings and actual behaviours contribute towards our particular challenges and overall well being. I also work with a solutions focused style that creates practical outcomes for change as well as a practical tool kit for yourself to use and refer to on your own as needed. When requested, I also employ yoga, meditation and spiritual teachings that provide deeper and important perspectives to both understand our challenges and celebrate our lives meaning and purpose within.
How will my work benefit you ?
The benefit and result of working with me will naturally include a clear identification of issues and obstacles, practical understanding how these issues present themselves in your life and relationships, strategies and tools for creating lasting change and a larger more meaningful life perspective. As a result your life and overall relationships will be filled with a more realistic sense of understanding, awareness, clarity, acceptance, happiness and purpose.
What is my training ?
I am a registered clinical counsellor with a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University, and so covered under most insurance and benefits packages. For those not covered by insurance, I offer 50 % off on your first session and have very reasonable and accessible rates.
Further training that informs my interests and gifts as a counsellor also includes valuable studies in Cultural theory, which provides an essential and bigger perspective of how both individual and larger social factors in our bigger environment and the world around us contribute towards our overall health and well being. A quick therapeutic glance towards the world we are living and sometimes struggling in, helps put our individual challenges into a better and more clear perspective as we prepare to explore and illuminate your important and more personal concerns and needs for change.
I am also a certified Yoga, Mindfulness and Meditation teacher and have travelled and studied formally with specific teachers and masters representing Yoga, Meditation and spiritual philosophies of India, Buddhism as well as Indigenous teachings. I have both taken initiations, certifications as well as studied formally with Prana Yoga and Zen center, the Vedic Academy of Science and Arts, Traditional Elders of the Squamish Nation, Zasep Tulku Rinpoche of Tibet, His Holiness the Dali Lama of Tibet, and Dr Juan Ruiz Naupari of Peru and the affiliated Pneuma Cultural Association where I am actively engaged in Transpersonal Psychology and Breath work training modules.
PHILOSOPHY OF
COUNSELLING
I provide both online and personal counselling services for individuals and couples wishing to move through lives many challenges and stressful circumstances towards creating a better, more meaningful life. I do this through a variety of successful forms of talk therapy and alternate healing modalities with a focus on very personal and practical solutions towards creating positive change in your life. I believe in recognizing the importance our overall culture has on our individual life circumstance, and also work creatively with both your overall mind , physical and emotional body towards integrating and optimizing your overall health and wellness.
We are certainly living in dynamic and demanding times, and so all need help or guidance with lives challenges at some point. Life is too short and precious to delay in getting skilled assistance towards making personal change and creating the life you want and deserve.
As a clinical counsellor, teacher and facilitator I have devoted 25 years towards developing specific perspectives, tools and strategies to help you in this process of deeper understanding, awareness and purpose towards creating a more balanced and meaningful life. Confusion about Life Purpose, Generalized Stress, Financial concerns, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addictions and Relationship Issues are all common challenges in life. Yet if not addressed in a timely and committed manner, these challenges can also keep us forever stuck and limit our personal growth, happiness and vitality in this precious life. We invest time and money in many things, but too often overlook or delay also investing in our personal development through the process of counselling.
In working though any specific challenges or therapeutic goals with clients, I draw upon a number of proven and effective therapeutic methods that integrate deeper understanding with healing support and practical strategies towards life transformation.
In addition to considering the essential influence of larger global and cultural forces on our health and well-being, I view our more personal inner clarity, healing and transformation to be a result of the dynamic interaction between our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and overall inner landscapes. By critically examining our outer world and inner landscapes can begin to create better understanding of our own circumstances, and then create new and better ways of adapting and approaching our life in the future.
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This approach to counselling provides clients with a more complete understanding of their life, as well as a greater sense of self-awareness and practical therapeutic tools to use on their own outside of the counselling environment.