A Return to Self
Though we are each inherently perfect and whole, the residue of life's experiences can interfere with the full expression of self. This can leave us feeling stuck in patterns playing out in our minds and emotions - affecting our lives and our bodies. Learn to deconstruct these old patterns and develop new ones more aligned with your inner truth. Learn to work with your body to release the residue of past experiences so that you may more freely move forward.
Attain understanding and perspective by exploring various aspects of self. Achieve stability and empowerment through developing your resources, supports, and personal strengths. Unlock the guiding wisdom of your body and unleash your healing potential through Somatic Experiencing. Enjoy greater peacefulness, clarity, shifting, and integration through energy work. This overall process facilitates a return to your natural state of wellness wherein you may find peace, vitality, and joy - and from which arises the full expression and experience of life.
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Areas of Practice
life transitions depression spirituality
self-discovery anxiety parenting
self-esteem grief and loss dealing with illness
relationship issues healing of trauma career exploration
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Vancouver, B.C.
Free consultation
Sliding scale fees
Psychotherapy Sessions - 1.5 hr. @ $50.00 - $110.00
(may or may not invovle body or energy work)
Body or Energy Sessions only, 1 hr. @ $50.00 - 75.00
Location: 2021 Columbia Street, Vancouver, B.C.
(Erickson College @ 4th & Columbia)
Flexible availability
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Vernon, B.C.
Psychotherapy sessions - 2 hr. @ $150
(combining talk therapy with body &/or energy work)
Body or Energy Sessions only, 1 hr. @ $75
Choice of: Free initial consult - 45min OR
1st 2 hr. session @ $100
Location: #4 3105 30th Avenue, Vernon, B.C.
Appointments scheduled approx. 1 weekend monthly
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Holistic Perspective
We experience life on many levels: cognitive, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social (mind, heart, body, soul, and environment). Healing and change must, therefore, incorporate all of these if it is to be effective and complete. Counselling from a holistic perspective means bringing all of these aspects more consciously into the therapeutic process. In practice this means incorporating discussions of the interrelatedness of all aspects of experience and utilizing various body and energy awareness techniques to enhance overall self-awareness.
I believe our bodies hold the key to our healing. Through emotions and body sensations out bodies provide us with valuable information helping to guide our journeys. (Re) Learning to understand the languages of emotion and body sensation is key in facilitating a return to a state of health.
When in life we experience trauma we often inhibit our body’s natural responses due to social conditioning or acceptance – sometimes even safety. As a result of this, the residue of trauma is stored in our physical cells. This is why we can talk about trauma and come to new understandings about our experience and yet remain ‘imprisoned’ by that experience. Working with the body we can learn to unleash its inherent ability to release this stored energy and re-establish the ability to balance life’s experiences in a healthy equilibrium.
Therapeutic Process
I believe that each person is inherently perfect and whole. The degree to which this is not the experience or the expression I believe is the degree to which the system’s needs have not been met at some level and as a result the system has come out of alignment. The experienced symptoms – be they emotional / psychological / behavioural / physical – are the system’s attempts to meet the needs and move toward re-alignment.
The successful therapeutic relationship provides a powerful opportunity for the client to explore the system’s needs and receive the support to find and access more appropriate and effective ways to serve these needs and move toward optimum alignment and health. In order for the therapeutic relationship to be successful the client must feel unconditionally accepted and supported by the therapist within an environment of meaningful connection and deep trust. I strive to meet these conditions with each client I have the privilege to be in therapeutic relationship with.
Working with Energy
The energy I speak of is universal or life energy which is available to us all – indeed it is the substance of which we are made. Through intention one can bring forth an increased flow and higher frequency of this energy. The energy carries its own inherent intelligence which interacts with the individual’s inherent intelligence to bring forth whatever is most beneficial for movement towards energetic re-alignment and a state of health. Intentionally working with the energy in this way greatly enhances healing and positive change.
Clients having received energy work typically report a greater feeling of peace and an increased clarity with respect to life situations. Valuable insights can be gained and physical symptoms potentially alleviated. The energy can access all levels including those not yet consciously part of the individual's experience. In this way, the energy can facilitate shifts which have not previously occurred, and may not occur, through talk therapy alone. Energy work is a powerful component of the therapeutic services I offer -- a component I find particularly valuable in the healing of trauma.
Your Healing Journey
Each person's journey is unique and profound. Allow me to accompany you through a deeper exploration of your own experience toward greater awareness, meaning, and self-acceptance. Through greater development of your resources, supports, and personal strengths find increased stability and empowerment. By working with the body, and with energy, access a greater sense of peace and clarity and enable optimum shifting and integration. By exploring your belief structures, align more fully and consciously with your sense of meaning and purpose in life. This overall therapeutic process strives to facilitate a return to a natural state of wellness wherein you may find more peace, vitality, and joy – and from which arises your fullest expression and experience of life.
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Keywords:
holistic, psychotherapy, counselling, energy, body focused, integrative, healing, wholeness, wellness, transformation, therapeutic, journey, spiritual, Somatic Experiencing,
