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1 on 1 Counselling Sessions 

Vancouver / Sunshine Coast / BC​​

I work online, in-person every other week in Vancouver, and in-person in Roberts Creek.

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We can't always change things simply by thinking + talking about them.

If we could have, we would have.

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We need to include the body.​

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“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”

 

- Albert Einstein

 

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"I KNOW what I need to do I just can't seem to DO it."  

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"I look at my life and THINK I should feel happy, but I don't."

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-Many Clients​

 

As a result of emerging neuroscience we know our brain extends to our body. This is often the missing link and can be a huge relief and "aha" for people when they start working with this awareness.

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Why does this matter?​ 

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Going to a therapists appointment to talk about our problems is a bit like going to the gym to read a book on weight training. We try to deal with our problems by attempting to analyze them with the brain in our head. 

 

That's only a piece of the puzzle.

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​The thinking brain in our head, our frontal lobe, knows what we need to do. It knows we probably shouldn't yell at our partner, eat 3 chocolate bars, drink so much, date another controlling person, judge, or stay at our job.

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The brain in our body, is slower to change. It carries deep, old patterns. It feels resistance, experiences pain, makes habitual decisions, contains emotions, reacts, pulls back, charges forward, and makes decisions on impulse. It is a powerful force we are often not conscious of.

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Working together we can help these brains become more congruent. We change the blueprints in the bodybrain.

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These blueprints are so significant because they determine the following:

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• How you see yourself (e.g. positively or negatively, capable or incapable, alone or belonging).

• How you see others (especially your most intimate relationships).

• How you see the world (e.g. is it friendly and are you safe to take risks and be close to people).

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I support you to move out of the endlessly spinning and analyzing mind and make room for creativity, fulfilling relationships, clear thinking, and the ability to play with who you are and what you do rather than get played by it.

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Why you might come see me 

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• depression (trouble finding energy or movement in your life)

• you consider yourself a highly sensitive person or empath

• confusion when people say "just love yourself"

• unexplained sadness or emptiness

• navigating grief or transition

• anxiety or tensing up

• familiar uncomfortable sensations that won’t leave you alone

• a sense of in-congruence (between what you believe/feel and what you rationally tell yourself)

• questions or even massive doubt about your self-worth

• trauma (PTSD-things that continue to live on in the body even once they’re finished)

• trouble accomplishing your goals

• finding you push people away

• feeling stuck

• feeling alone

• feeling you fixate on or need to hold tightly to the people around you

• the feeling of wanting to run away from others or situations when things get to intimate or stressful

• integration of plant medicine work or powerful experiences

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Modalities

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I work with training from a variety of somatic practices. The work we do supports you in understanding your own unique nervous system and what it needs in order to feel both vitality and rest in your life.

 

The basis to the work we do is a kind, accepting and warm relationship. My work has parallels to internal family systems therapy. I also use an attachment/attunement lens in my work.

 

My work recognizes that we are situated within a variety of forces in our lives, familial, economic, cultural, political etc. This helps root us in the belief that, "the problem is the problem and YOU are not the problem," a principle found in narrative therapy.

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Session Logistics 

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$120 | $145 | $165 (plus GST) for 55 minutes.

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Session pricing is based on a community model of tiered pricing. This is a conversation that can be revisited as we go along. Length of treatment needed/desired may also be considered in the price of the sessions. Click here for more details on the tiers.​​​​​​​

 

Because we are working with the nervous system repetition is key, and scheduling sessions closer together allows us to build on the work we are doing rather than have to start over with every session. Regular sessions over a longer period of time allow for more significant and lasting shifts at the foundation. I generally recommend seeing people once/week if they are working through something. Over time the frequency may shift. This can be discussed further in our first session. 

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Many employers with extended health plans offer some coverage for Registered Clinical Counsellors. Check with your insurer.  If this is the case I will write receipts with my registration number for you to submit for reimbursement. Please note that due to insurance coverage I cannot work with people who live permanently out of the province.

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Need to cancel?

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You have 48 hours before an appointment to cancel with no charge. Payment is due in full without exception if appointments are missed or cancelled within less than 48-hours. If a video/phone call is possible we can switch to that or if I have an opening in the same week I can occasionally shift an appointment.

 

On the rare occasion that I need to cancel without prior notice your next appointment will be given with a discount, depending on the amount of appointments I needed to cancel that day.

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