Client Centered Counselling Therapist
Are you wanting to create change? I am here to provide in person and virtual services so anyone anywhere can access counselling. As a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, and a Counselling Therapist with the Association of Counsellors and Therapists of Alberta, my role is to support you with whatever challenges you are currently facing, that are impacting your sense of wellbeing. The relationship formed with the therapist, is the foundation that supports success. I am able to meet with you virtually for a free consult, to determine if we are a good fit and provide counselling session times that support your work day . I am able to help you learn skills to cope, feel better, and get help with the problem you’re having. I can support you to shift from the path you are on to one that serves you and your needs. Are you wanting to create change?
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Therapeutic Modalities
Solution Focused Therapy
Sometimes the hardest part of finding success is gathering the courage to get started. As long as you’re learning, you’ll never really fail. I am here to support you to learn, grow and create a shift.One of the most invaluable skills a person can learn is that it takes steps to achieve success. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a hope friendly, positive emotion eliciting, future-oriented vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change.
ART “Accelerated Resolution Therapy”
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) is a unique approach to psychotherapy. ART is unique because the ART Therapist guides the client to replace the negative images in the mind that cause the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress with positive images of the client’s choosing. One of the special aspects of ART is that when clients replace their negative images with positive ones they don’t need to talk to the therapist about any details of the trauma. This is because ART is procedural, though creative; and the client is really in control of the process, while the ART Therapist is a helpful guide.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT treatment usually involves efforts to change thinking patterns. These strategies might include: Learning to recognize one’s distortions in thinking, that are creating problems, and then to reevaluate them in light of reality. Gaining a better understanding of the behavior and motivation of others. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a type of psychotherapy that involves a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), meditation, and the cultivation of a present-oriented, non-judgmental attitude called “mindfulness”.
Why Client Centered Counselling?
I will meet you with genuine empathy and respect within a non judgemental approach. These are three important qualities a client should look for when seeking a therapist. Empathy is the ability to identify with and understand the client’s situation, feelings and motives. It provides the foundation for a therapeutic relationship because it establishes the personal connection. Traits of genuineness include being open, honest, and sincere and an absence of defensiveness and phoniness. In knowing we are all, with our strengths and weaknesses the atmosphere in which we will be working will allow for profound issues to be brought to the surface for examination and transformation.
Our client-therapist relationship is essential to establishing a successful outcome by promoting willingness for you to share and engage with me, your counsellor. Why is this crucial? This promotes increased propensity toward self awareness and change in behavior, thoughts and beliefs. It is also important that counseling remain client focused by discussing and defining the goals of you the client, rather than the counsellor imposing their own mandates and judgments.
Client Centered Counselling 