Counselling and Psychotherapy
Welcome. I work with clients collaboratively to support them with their unique situations and goals. Below are some examples of the situations we can work on together. As each person's situation and goals are unique, there are more options for the work we can do together then listed here.
I look forward to supporting you on your journey. You are welcome to book a free 20 minute consultation or to reach out with questions to see if working together would be a good fit.
Are you feeling a sense of dissatisfaction in your life, perhaps it is related to not feeling fulfilled in the area of your career, relationships, or life direction? Maybe you sense that things can be better for you but do not know how to get there and are feeling stuck, tired and alone in facing these challenges.
Counselling can offer compassionate and caring support in helping you understand yourself better, discover a way forward towards what you desire, and be supported along the way. Counselling can be there to support you in becoming more aware of your feelings, needs, sensing more clearly what you want and do not want, hearing the desires of your heart, or the call of your soul. Once we are in greater connection with ourselves and understand ourselves better, clarity and power towards next steps in creating the lives we desire emerges.
If you are looking for a counsellor who is attuned to your experience, giving you a sense of being heard and seen, someone who esteems you, intuitively seeing your goodness, gifts and abilities, and is encouraging you towards what you want with warmth and gentleness, these sessions may be for you.
Would you like to be more connected with your body wisdom? Our bodies have a natural intelligence, present within us, that is here to guide us. This natural intelligence includes our innate abilities to sense, to feel, to know our needs, limits, desires and longings, to hear a quiet still voice of our deeper being. Body-based modalities can help us reconnect with this inner intelligence.
For most of us, often due to family upbringing, trauma or cultural influences, we have grown out of touch with our innate inner wisdom. Western culture has taught many of us to primarily use our minds in navigating our lives. The mind is a wonderful tool, but when we rely on the mind alone and are not in touch with the wisdom of the body (which includes the heart), it can I find be difficult to be connected with ourselves fully.
If you find yourself often questioning or dismissing your inner knowing and feelings, choosing what you "should" be doing instead of what you feel is wanted, or using your thinking mind to override what your inner world knows, it can feel confusing and challenging to lead an authentic and fulfilling life. I invite you to work together to gently uncover your natural capacity to be more in touch with yourself and make choices that lead towards a more authentic and fulfilling life.
Our "senses are sacred thresholds", guiding us towards more connection with ourselves and with lifeJohn O'Donohue"There is something inside us, deep in us, which knows"Charlotte SelverPlease contact me for a free 20 minute consultation to discuss your hopes for counselling and to see if working together may be a good fit for you.
- If you are interested in going deeper, our work together can include gently uncovering emotions and underlying needs, as well as identifying habits and beliefs that no longer support you. We would listen to them with great compassion and curiosity. The sessions would also support you in learning to listen to your body's wisdom to show you new more authentic and life giving habits and beliefs that would support you in living the life you desire.
- Are you feeling tired, overwhelmed or burned out from consistently ignoring your limits, needs or desires, pushing yourself too hard, putting the needs of others above your own, or other unhelpful habits and would like to discover embodied ways of being present with yourself to listen to and hear what is happening for you, what you need, and how living in more alignment with yourself wants to be?
- Are you gifted with sensitivity and can feel overwhelmed easily, wanting an attuned listener who would be present with you with warmth and care, and support you in discovering more grounding, self-care, reducing overwhelm, stress or burnout, developing better boundaries, and finding ways to nurture your soul, heart, and body?
- If you are experiencing a physical health challenge, would you like support with cultivating more connection with your body to better hear and trust your own embodied wisdom guiding you towards more wellness? This may include listening to your body to become aware of beliefs, emotions, thoughts or behaviours that contribute to the health challenge and listening to the body's wisdom to discover new ways of relating with yourself and others that would support more wellness.
- Do you experience anxiety and would you like to discover grounding, breathing, and other embodiment practices to help your nervous system find more safety, as well as learn mindful ways to notice unhelpful habits like overthinking, exit the anxiety spiral, and return to a more present and calm connection with your embodied self and with Life?
- Is a part of you feeling not enough, do you experience a critical inner voice, low energy or low mood, or have depression? Would you like to grow in self-compassion and find ways of relating with yourself that are more loving and aligned with the unique preciousness of who you are and the unconditional worthiness that is your birthright?
- Would you like to be more in touch with an embodied experience of your intrinsic unconditional value, worthiness, divinity, or a sense of being enough?
- Would you like to be more in touch with your unique being/soul/spirit/essence and purpose?
"Be Yourself, Everybody Else is Taken"Nadya GrossJust Being is Enough
- Perhaps you are a spiritual seeker wanting a space where your spirituality can be included and nurtured in the work together?
You are welcome to book a free 20 minute consultation to see if working together may be a good fit for you.
