Andrea McGeorge, RTC #2775

It is often thought that counselling is only needed when it feels life is at its  worst, “I’ll go see someone if things don’t improve”.  Counselling is helpful for the hard times and incredibly useful to understand our current experiences before it becomes unmanageable.  Life experiences may remain consistent, leading one to feeling there are no issues to talk about.  Often having someone to hear you, understand you and validate you can be a healthy new beginning to improved hope and clarity.  You’ve heard the saying “you don’t know what you don’t know” and I believe when you know better then you are able to do better.

My approach is not to create problems where there aren’t any. This is often a struggle for couples to come to counselling, one wants to attend while to other partner may be afraid to highlight or bring up issues that require some form of change and stay with the status quo.  My approach to couples counselling is not to determine who is right and who is wrong or to assign blame.  I will not be choosing sides. But in the course of the sessions (10-12) we will be creating solutions and learning new skills based on what your own unique needs are as a couple.  I have found my methods of delivering couples counselling to be quite effective.  My goal is to strength the communication between the couple that the results will be to no longer need regular counselling.

I use a blend of approaches including Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy  (CBT), Attachment Theory, Solution Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)(aka Tapping) . Therapy can range from very short to long-term depending on client’s needs.

Emotions are a critical part of my approach. In sessions I will help you pace and put attention to what rises to your awareness so that you can create the changes you desire.