I am passionate about guiding you to find who you truly are, when you are in your true self, your life purposes will unfold right in front of your eyes. I am also passionate to assist you to move thru depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, stresses, Mid-Life crises, substance abuse, and couple counselling. I believe you will experience the gifts beneath all these struggles.
My therapeutic approaches are as follows:
I use Bowen Family Systems Theory which is a form of psychotherapy where we study the family dynamic together. What happens to one family member happens to everyone in the family. We will look into your past to see what happened that may still be affecting your life now.
Internal Family Systems Therapy is psychotherapy to identify the voices in our head and what we are telling ourselves and also to identify parts of us that are angry, sad, frustrated, scared, and so on. Once we can identify these parts we can process them so that they do not run our life anymore.
Trans-personal Therapy is a more holistic approach, focusing on mental, physical, social, emotional, creative, and intellectual needs, with an emphasis on spiritual health in healing.
Person Centered Therapy allows clients to take more of a lead in sessions and with the idea that every client has the ability to find the solutions within them.
Gestalt Therapy helps clients to focus on the present and understand what is happening in their life right now. There is also The Empty Chair where clients are encouraged to bring their struggles with other people or parts of themselves and energetically imagine the person or the part and to speak for themselves and then move to the empty chair to speak from the person or the part. This will give us clarity on our struggles and to have some emotional release.
I provide a safe, non-judgmental, and loving-kindness environment for our sessions. Together we will explore your problems or struggles and find the reasons behind them. We may discover that your behaviors are driven by the feelings and your mistaken core beliefs that you developed when you were very young due to some traumatic events or what was told to you when you were very young. I have processes and therapies that will help you to correct the mistaken thoughts and to fulfill your underlying needs that were not met when the trauma happened. We cannot change the past but we can change the meaning that you have attached to yourself due to your past trauma. As an example, you may change the thought of “I am not lovable” to “I am lovable”. When you deeply believe that you are lovable, you will love yourself more, you will be open to love and to let love into your life. During our counselling sessions you may uncover strong emotions, sometimes this may be uncomfortable, I will be with you and guide you all the way. Sometimes you may feel worse before you feel better. Therapy can be hard work. It is painful at times to look at the difficult things in your life but it is worth it when you start to feel better. If you can stick with the process and the homework that I may give you, you can start to lead a satisfying and more fulfilling life.
