Are you feeling overwhelmed and exhausted from things in your life?  Are you feeling stuck, frustrated, lost or are struggling with life transitions and/or making the changes you want?  I know that looking for support and assistance to deal with your personal challenges is a big step.  I work with my clients from a holistic-based perspective and offer a safe, non-judgmental space to help you gain the tools to regain balance back in your life. 

Counselling Approach

I work with my clients from a person-centered, strength-based, solution focused, mindfulness and cognitive behavioural (CBT) perspective.   What does all that mean?  Here is the breakdown:

Person Centered: Counselling is about you and what you want for yourself and your life. Our relationship will be genuine, empathic, warm, caring, and non-judgemental.

Strength Based: This means that we will work together to uncover, discover, or rediscover your unique and particular strengths and use them to empower and strengthen you on your life journey.

Solution Focused: This involves looking at what you want to be different right now, exploring and discovering what you want for yourself in the future, and what steps we will take to make this happen. It also entails looking at the things in your life that you want to continue to have happen and how to have more of what you do want, and thus less of what you don’t want.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): This involves looking at and often challenging and restructuring those beliefs, thoughts, and choices we make that are keeping us ‘stuck’ where we don’t want to be stuck. This results in the creation of new perspectives, and understandings, and the strength to make choices that lead to greater happiness, peace, joy, and emotional freedom.

A benefit of my standing as RPC to clients is the ability to submit my receipts to your work benefits provider, if applicable.

Photo: Courtesy of Carolynn Strilchuk.  Location: Lumby