Counselling Services

Individual counselling services are designed to help you overcome personal challenges and achieve your goals. I warm, supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behavior, and develop strategies for positive change.

Couples counselling can help you and your partner improve communication, resolve conflicts, and build a stronger relationship. Whether you are facing challenges related to intimacy, trust, or other issues, I can help you work through them and find balance in your relationship.

Adolescent counseling services are designed to help young people overcome a range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, and more. I use client centered  techniques to help teens 14+ develop coping skills, improve self-esteem, and achieve greater success in school and other areas of life.

 Addiction counselling  can help you overcome substance abuse and other addictive behaviors. I use a variety of evidence-based techniques to help you develop coping skills, build a support network, and achieve lasting recovery. I also provide support for family members affected by addiction. 

There are also disorders unique to women. For example, some women experience symptoms of depression at times of hormone change, such as: 

• During or after pregnancy (perinatal depression)
• Around the time of their period (premenstrual dysphoric disorder)
• During the menopause transition (perimenopausal depression)   

Women also experience different and unique challenges from domestic violence to sexual violence and human trafficking   These types of issues required interventions with specialized techniques and teachings.     

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 Narrative therapy is a form of counselling that views people as separate from their problems and destructive behaviors. This allows clients to get some distance from the difficulty they face; this helps them to see how it might actually be helping or protecting them, more than it is hurting them. With this perspective, individuals feel more empowered to make changes in their thought patterns and behavior and “rewrite” their life story for a future that reflects who they really are, what they are capable of, and what their purpose is, separate from their problems. 

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is a practical, short-term form of psychotherapy. It helps people to develop skills and strategies for becoming and staying healthy.

CBT focuses on the here-and-now—on the problems that come up in day-to-day life. CBT helps people to examine how they make sense of what is happening around them and how these perceptions affect the way they feel.

 Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is a strength-based approach to psychotherapy that focuses on solution-building rather than problem-solving. Unlike other forms of psychotherapy that analyze present problems and past causes, SFBT concentrates on current circumstances and future hopes. 

 DBT combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotional regulation and reality testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness. 

 Within DBT, it is the capacity to pay attention, nonjudgmentally, to the present moment; about living in the moment, experiencing one's emotions and senses fully, yet with perspective. 

 In systems therapy, family relationships, patterns, communication, and behaviors are examined , allowing the therapist  to observe how certain behaviors could be impacting the family. Once these behaviors are recognized and understood,  members can learn new behaviors that have benefits for themselves and the rest of their family. 

Albert Marshall is a respected Mi’kmaq Elder whose concept of two-eyed seeing recognizes the strength of Indigenous ways of knowing and the strength of western ways of knowing and uses both competencies together.

 "Two-Eyed Seeing refers to learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing and to using both of these eyes together” 

https://www.2eyedseeing.ca/about-5

 The Medicine Wheel is a powerful symbol and teaching tool used by many Indigenous cultures across North America. It is a sacred representation of the interconnectedness of all things – the earth, the universe, the human experience, and the spiritual realm. More than just a symbol, the Medicine Wheel is a way of life, a guide for personal growth, and a framework for understanding the world around us. 

 Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit is a body of knowledge and unique cultural insights of Inuit into the workings of nature, humans and animals.