COUNSELLING services, Support and programs
Counselling and Therapy Services
Supporting women through life’s challenges in a compassionate, non-judgemental and nurturing environment.
Are you feeling stuck? Unhappy? Lost? Are your current coping strategies just not cutting it anymore?
Our counselling and therapy services can provide you with the support you need to create meaningful shifts in your life and the way you feel. Each session offers a unique approach to therapy that addresses healing on all levels – mind, body, spirit and energy.
Together with the therapist, you will work to shift negative thought patterns, and gain insight into the root cause of your challenges. You will be guided using modalities that speak to you, allowing you to tune into the needs of the physical body, and strengthen the relationship you have with yourself. As a result, you will be better connected to your inner power and resilience which will help you face life’s challenges.
Are you pregnant and feeling anxious? Have you just had a baby and are feeling sad?
Your mental health needs to be a priority during your prenatal and postpartum journey. Councelling can be helpful while thinking about fertility, preparing for pregnancy and adjusting to life with a baby.
What to expect in a session?
You will complete a short questionnaire before your first appointment so we can begin to support you the best that we can where you are currently on your journey.
Each session is dedicated to you and meeting your needs. You are able to express yourself freely in a safe, compassionate and non-judgmental environment where your confidentiality is respected. You will be provided with fresh insight, knowledge and tools to help you meet any challenges that you are experiencing. Please bring a journal.
A session may include:
- Guided meditation
- Sound/energy work
- Mindfulness
- Talk therapy
In your initial session, the therapist will review intake questions with you. This will help deepen the therapist’s understanding of what you are going through, as well as provide background information that may be useful in future sessions. In addition, you will clarify your goals for therapy and what you would like to work towards over the course of your treatment plan.
Benefits of counselling:
- Better understand why you feel the way you do
- Build on an existing toolbox of coping strategies, reduce stress/anxiety
- Strengthen your relationship with yourself
- Grow personally and spiritually
- Improve self-esteem
- Improve communication with others
- Break addictive behaviours
- Improve career satisfaction and job performance
- Come to terms with past or present experiences
- Reduce stress
- Promote a positive outlook and healthy lifestyle
- Feel more connected and mindful
- Experience more inner peace
Counselling can provide support if you are experiencing any of the following:
- Difficulty managing emotions such as anxiety or depression
- Struggling with challenges of life
- Struggling with challenges of fertility, pregnancy, post-partum, parenting
- Relationship issues – family/partner
- Youth looking for guidance and safe space for self-expression
- Illness diagnosis – yourself/family/friends
- Unhappy with life, feeling stuck
- Feeling like you have lost touch with yourself
- Grief
- Desire to grow personally and spiritually
Appointments:
15-minute consultation is free.
See online booking for consultation and treatment availability.
Our Social Services Worker/Counsellors use mindfulness as a tool for counselling.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to whatever is happening in our lives, inside and out, in the present moment. When we connect with the present, we become aware of habitual patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour.
Mindfulness is not a religion. Anyone, with any belief system, can enjoy its benefits, many of which are based in research.
Benefits of Mindfulness:
- Reduce stress and anxiety
- Reduce the suffering associated with pain
- Improves mood and working memory
- Supports relapse prevention of depression
- Increases emotional intelligence
- Develops awareness and resilience
All sessions are 1-hour and 15-minutes.
You will complete a short questionnaire before your first appointment so we can begin to support you the best that we can where you are currently on your journey.
Support is provided in a compassionate, non-judgmental and safe environment where your confidentiality is respected
Mindfulness for Pain: Change your relationship with pain so that you are able to experience relief and healing in the middle of uncomfortable physical sensations.
Mindful Birthing Support: Support is available through the birthing process.
Birth Recovery Support: Support will include exploring mindfulness for post-birth, postpartum depression and birth trauma.
Couples Mindfulness and Wellness Support: Exploring mindfulness together can support and strengthen your relationship as you prepare to experience change in the future or where you currently are on your journey together.
Support will include exploring mindfulness, stress reduction and self-compassion techniques and practices.
“It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.”
— Mandy Hale
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