I can help you feel better and facilitate healing while you are dealing with:
- Anxiety/Depression
- Addiction
- Low Self-Esteem
- Problems in Relationships
- Career/Life Transitions
- Grief and Loss
- Skill building around Emotion Management
- Recovery from Traumatic Experiences
- Pain Management
- Body Acceptance Issues
- Eating Disorders
- Sexuality Issues
I specialize in the following areas:
Marriage and Relationship Counselling
I focus on building relationship skills and help people develop new strategies to make relationships safer, healthier and rekindle that desire to be in your current one.
Addiction Issues
I use a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of understanding and treating addictions. This includes but is not limited to addictions to pornography, food, alcohol, drugs, gambling. I am a certified substance abuse expert and gambling addiction counsellor. I am familiar with and work with people in 12 step recovery.
Recovery from Traumatic Experiences
I provide a supportive environment for healing from traumatic experiences. Such experiences include accidents, abuse, violent episodes, and loss. I have worked extensively with people who have been trying to deal with their past traumas and are struggling. Historical experiences can really carry forward in our lives and create a lens that colours our experiences in a way we have a feeling for, but are struggling to manage. I like to call it a “blind spot” – something we can deal with when there is the support of another helpful viewpoint – mine, the counsellor’s.
Parenting
I work with both youth and families who are stuck in problematic relationships at home. I have solid and productive relationships with the youth that I work with and many of the issues families are contending with get dealt with in our work together.
I use the following therapeutic modes of psychotherapy/counselling:
- Cognitive Therapy
- Solution-Focused Counselling
- Narrative Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Compassionate Communication or Collaborative Communication
A little more about me:
I have raised his two great kids into healthy adulthood here in Victoria, and consider it a pleasure to work with youth/teens and assisting them in the various life challenges they may face. I also am honoured to serve adults and couples, and those suffering from the impact of unhealthy habits or addiction concerns, trauma, communication issues, conflict resolution, and breakdowns in relationships.
I am passionate about cycling and will be riding until I kick the bucket.
There is a saying that resonates with me and with my work:
Life is hard – but the suffering is optional