Practice Areas & Approaches
Brief, Solution Focused
This type of counselling is typically 1-4 sessions rather than ongoing. People find it helpful for solving problems that crop up now and then, or in times of stress or significant change in their lives.
Trauma Recovery
Building strength and resilience after trauma takes time, patience and self-compassion. This type of work takes openness to one's thoughts, feelings and body signals/sensations. It also involves taking a look at our mental, emotional and relationship well-being. Clients can begin to empower themselves through grounding, self-compassion, & mindfulness.
Relationships
Relationships of all kinds (personal, professional, intimate ) exist on a spectrum of healthy-unhealthy. Maintaining boundaries, enhancing self-awareness and communicating effectively are all essential to managing the stresses that sometimes come with relationships. Understanding personal values is one of the first steps to building and keeping healthy, happy, helpful relationships.
Anxiety and Depression
Sometimes the cycle of "peaks" and "valleys" in our lives feels overwhelming and difficult to manage. Together, we can work at understanding anxious responses and times of low mood. Once we understand our individual responses, we can approach them and learn to change them with strategies that work for us.
Strengths Based
It is my philosophy that we all have strengths in different areas (whether we realize it or not). Sometimes it takes the help of a counsellor to tap into those strengths in order to find our way through a situation. This approach may be brief or ongoing.
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
This approach works with our thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT looks at adjusting the way we think and act in a given situation in order to change the way we feel about it. This model (like others) focuses on the present as a way of improving things for the future.