Whether you experienced trauma in childhood or are struggling to deal with more recent events, please know that you have the capacity to heal and rebuild after even the most devastating experiences. Through awareness of how these experiences have affected you and what they have come to mean in your life, psychotherapy can assist you in reclaiming freedom from these experiences and moving forward.

When someone we care for dies, we are changed. We must face a painful emotional, intellectual, and spiritual process of adjusting to a world in which someone who was significant to us is physically absent. In many cases, we are able to move through this process on our own, given time and support. At other times, however, we may become stuck – overwhelmed or frozen in our grief – and feel unable to move beyond this loss. If you are struggling in the wake of loss, counselling may provide the support needed to move forward while still respecting your continued connection with your loved one.

If someone has died through violent means, we are faced with the double challenge of adapting to the loss of the person from our lives as well as dealing with shock and horror related to the way in which they died. Enormous questions often emerge in the wake of this type of bereavement: challenges to our beliefs about the way the world works, fears about our safety and the safety of those we love and nagging guilt over what we think we could or should have done to prevent the death. I am dedicated to assisting those who must untangle the threads of meaning and grief, retaining wanted memories while healing the traumatic impact of the death.

You may have reached a point where you find that elements of your day-to-day experiences are simply “not working” anymore, or that a change in circumstance means that the old routines cannot be relied on anymore. If you are asking “who am I now?” or “how do I live with this?” after a major life transition, counselling may help you to find satisfying answers to your questions and re-establish a sense of stability and identity. Whatever has happened, you can decide and define who you are now.

Life is rich with movement and transformation, and sometimes change seems to happen to us. At other times, we consciously choose to seek growth and change to enhance our experience. If you are interested in exploring possibilities for expansion and development in your life, I will join you with a perspective of curiosity and adventure.

There may also be times when options seem limited by circumstance, and yet the human desire for growth and healing persists and must be honoured! No matter what the limiting factor – even when chronic illness or a terminal diagnosis is present – personal growth may yet be possible. I will work with you to move through limits you may have inferred from your current circumstance, to identify a powerful and realistic perspective of possibility.

Couples sometimes fall into patterns where it becomes difficult to relate positively to each other or to overcome hurts within their relationship. If you would like to reclaim the connection that lead you to commit to each other “once upon a time,” you and your partner may find my positive approach to relationship counselling beneficial.

Individuals are also supported in addressing relationship issues independently – whether you are presently single or in a relationship with a partner who is not open to attending therapy. Individual relationship-focused counselling can be a powerful way to explore and change old patterns, resolve past experiences within oneself, and become clear on who you are – your needs, your boundaries, and the gifts you bring – in your relationships with others.

In a goal-oriented culture, we are taught to adopt a series of conditions in order to earn self-worth; “When I get this promotion/lose ten pounds/buy that new car/find true love… that will prove that I am good enough and then I can be happy.” Constantly striving to be “better,” many of us struggle with the painful belief that we are not – and maybe can never be – good enough.

Through identifying individual conditions for acceptability, acknowledging the source of these beliefs and exploring the underlying hopes and fears that they represent, I will work with you to adopt a new, unconditional love and acceptance of self. (Somewhat ironically, it is from a platform of true self-acceptance that meaningful change may be made with grace and ease.)

You are good enough. By winning freedom from the fear that there is something wrong with you, you will be more fully able to connect with your strengths and your right to enjoy being you!

When we experience depression or anxiety, we often feel trapped in cycles of negative, repetitive thoughts. Counselling can help you to explore and understand the source of these patterns and to identify, challenge, and change the repetitive thoughts that have fed a depressed and/or anxious worldview. Over time, these changed patterns create a new, realistically positive perspective that fosters energy and optimism as you move forward with life.

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