I am a Master Therapeutic Counsellor and hold a Registered Counselling Supervisor designation with the Association of Cooperative Therapists of Canada.
I have over 15-years of experience working with youth and families. I have worked with individuals, families, couples and youth both in private practice and within family service agencies. I have also led men’s groups for 8-years, worked with both veterans and high-risk youth. I have trained in Family Systems Theory, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mediation and Conflict resolution, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Breath-work Therapy, and Mindfulness.
I have worked for Clearmind International Institute for 12 years as an Instructor of the Practitioners Counsellor Training Program, a 3-year part-time counsellor training program, and as a workshop facilitator.
I am a client-centered, experiential counsellor who takes an integrative approach to anxiety, stress, parenting issues, grief and loss, couples issues, anger, and trauma. I have worked with a diverse client population including those who identify as LGBT2QIA and hold a diploma in Transpersonal Counselling Psychology.
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General Areas of Support
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Spirituality
Health / Wellness
Abuse
Trauma
Career / Vocation / Higher Education
Marriage / Partnership / Family
What is Transpersonal Counselling Psychology?
Transpersonal Psychology might loosely be called the psychology of spirituality and those areas of the human mind which search for higher meanings in life. This modality aims to move beyond the limited boundaries of the ego to access an enhanced capacity for wisdom, creativity, unconditional love and compassion. It honours the existence of transpersonal experiences, and is concerned with their meaning for the individual and how these experiences effect behaviour.
Transpersonal Counselling combines a variety of approaches in psychology, including behaviorism, cognitive psychology and humanistic psychology, along with other disciplines, including Eastern and Western philosophy, mindfulness and others.
Below are 4 other facts about transpersonal psychology.
1. Relationships in transpersonal psychology are key.
Transpersonal Psychology is an approach to understanding the way our minds operate through our relationships with others, resting in the belief that there is something bigger and deeper in the space between us.
The relationship between client and therapist is just as important as the client’s other relationships. The space between therapist and client is as sacred and transformative as that space between the client and their issues, their families and friends, etc.
2. The therapist isn’t viewed as the expert.
The therapist is the facilitator that assists the client in uncovering their own truth and their own process. The only room for expertise is the therapists’ ability to reflect the client’s own truth back to them while using the therapists own relationship to create conditions of safety that allow the client to explore their own inner wisdom.
3. Transpersonal psychology doesn’t judge others’ experiences.
Transpersonal psychology is based on the belief that the client and the therapist both have their own experiences and neither is right, wrong, correct or incorrect, healthy or unhealthy.
The client is encouraged to share their full experience in therapy so we can explore, grow and learn together.
4. Various well-known psychologists pioneered transpersonal psychology.
According to The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, William James, Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow are just a few of the psychologists that played a role in pioneering transpersonal psychology.
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