Counselling Services
“Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life" — Akshay Dubey
Counselling can be a powerful way to discuss, reframe, and develop new skills to handle everyday life stressors to processing large lived experiences. Counselling sessions are dedicated to offering participants a safe, confidential space to be themselves, opportunities to learn more about themselves and the resources they have within.
Trauma responses are natural, necessary and often misunderstood biological and psychological mechanisms that keep us alive, yet when not reprocessed, it can have severe impacts on daily living and quality of life. Trauma Informed Care indicates that services offer deep understanding of how trauma impacts the nervous system, everyday living, relationships and interactions within social environments.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy - EMDR is a structured therapy that encourages the patient to focus briefly on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes, showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences (Maxfield, 2019). EMDR therapy has even been superior to Prozac in trauma treatment (Van der Kolk et al., 2007). Shapiro and Forrest (2016) share that EMDR therapists in 130 countries have successfully treated millions.
Individual Sessions
Individual sessions are dedicated to supporting children, youth and adults across the lifespan within the following areas:
Developmental
Psychosocial
Behavioural
Trauma Recovery
Grief
Substance Dependency
Family & Couples Sessions
Family & Couple sessions utilize both musical and non musical interventions that are dedicated to supporting families and couples with
Securing Attachment & Bonding
Mediating Communication
Developing Strategic Plans that target themes arising in session.
Psycho-education on impacts of current presenting needs