Individual Counselling Vancouver
What Is Individual Counselling?
Individual counselling provides a safe, nonjudgmental, and confidential space where you can closely examine your thoughts, emotions, behaviour, values, goals, and more with the support of a skilled practitioner. While it can help you navigate a particularly challenging time in your life, individual counselling isn’t just for those in crisis. It can also be a powerful tool for anyone who wants to build more rewarding relationships with themselves and others, invest in their overall health and wellbeing, and lead as fulfilling a life as possible.
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My Approach
Because every client is unique, I tailor my counselling approach to each of their specific needs, incorporating elements from several evidence-based therapies:
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Helps clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with healthier, more balanced ways of thinking that support positive emotion and effective coping.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Promotes psychological flexibility by encouraging clients to accept rather than resist negative aspects of their experience, clarify their personal values, and commit to actions that align with those values.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT):
Provides clients with a supportive environment where they can examine patterns of negative emotion, promoting development of secure attachment (i.e., close, positive connections with themselves and others) and, in turn, new strategies for emotional regulation, healing, and personal growth.
Narrative Therapy:
Assists clients in examining the stories they create as they make
sense of their experiences to foster hope, a sense of
separation from problems, and the identification of
values, strengths, and more empowering narratives.
Mindfulness:
Highlights relaxation and awareness of the present moment as ways to reduce the distress associated with challenging thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations, enhancing clients’ motivation, mood, and overall well-being.
What to Expect in Session
1. Getting Started
From the beginning, my priority is to create a therapeutic environment where you feel safe, respected, and in control. During early sessions, we’ll examine your background, life experiences, and values. We’ll also clarify your goals for therapy and how we’ll work towards them, ensuring that the path forward addresses your wants and needs.
2. Integrating Insights & Trying New Approaches
As therapy progresses, we’ll focus on developing new understandings, skills, and practices, as well as how you can benefit by incorporating these into your life. While this stage of therapy looks different for everyone, it often involves examining patterns of challenging thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, as well as trying out new perspectives and responses that serve you better.
3. Consolidating Growth & Moving Forward
Towards the end of our work together, we’ll focus on clarifying, solidifying, and celebrating the gains you’ve made, taking time to ensure that you feel confident and resilient as you carry the insights and skills you’ve developed beyond the therapy room.
Who I Work With
- Overwhelming stress, anxiety, depression, and concerns about burnout (often due to intense school or work pressures)
- Obsessive thinking, emotional distress, and compulsive behaviours
- Problematic relationships with colleagues, friends, family, or romantic partners
- A sense of being stuck, lost, and/or disconnected from themselves and others
- Challenging life transitions (e.g., career changes, health issues, and/or break-ups)
- Trouble setting or working towards new goals
What I Can Help With
In addition to the challenges listed above, I have experience supporting clients with the following:
- Addiction and Substance Use
- Anxiety and Panic Attacks
- Attachment Issues
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Boundary Setting
- Burnout
- Career and Work Challenges
- Chronic Pain
- Decision Making
- Depression and Low Mood
- Divorce and Separation
- Emotional Regulation
- Existential Concerns
- Family Conflict
- Goal Setting
- Grief and Loss
- Health Issues
- Identity Exploration
- Infertility and Pregnancy Loss
- LGBTQ2S+ Issues
- Life Transitions
- Loneliness and Isolation
- Masculinity and Men’s Issues
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Parenting
- People-Pleasing
- Perfectionism
- Personal Growth
- Procrastination
- Relationship Anxiety
- Relationship Issues and Break-Ups
- Relationship Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (ROCD)
- School and Academic Issues
- Self-Esteem, Self-Compassion, and Self-Worth
- Sex and Sexuality
- Social Skills
- Stress Management
- Trauma
- Values-Based Living
Benefits Reported by My Clients
Throughout the counselling process, clients have the opportunity to reflect on the growth and progress they experience. The following are just some of the positive changes that my clients have reported after working together:
- Greater understanding and acceptance of their thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and identities
- More clarity on their wants, needs, values, and goals
- Better relationships with themselves (e.g., more self-compassion, engagement in self-care, and authentic living, with less shame)
- Healthier connections with others (e.g., less people-pleasing, clearer boundaries, and the confidence to ask for their wants and needs to be met)
- Improved coping skills, mood, and emotional regulation (with reduced stress, anxiety, and depression)
- Increased motivation, focus, and performance at work and school
- A stronger sense of resilience, calm, balance, optimism, confidence, and direction in life
Book An Individual Counselling Appointment
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