Counselling For Addiction

Supporting compassionate and collaborative treatment approaches for problematic substance use and other compelling behaviours, including obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviours. Opportunities include developing alternative lifestyle approaches, adding tools to the mental tool box, improving boundaries with self and others, and getting to the root cause of addictive behaviours in order to create freedom and healing.

Counselling For Anxiety

Offering research-based approaches to working with general and specific forms of anxiety and nervousness, including social anxiety, performance anxiety, existential anxiety, perfectionism, workaholism, and relational issues such as anxious attachment and jealousy.

Counselling For ADHD

Collaboratively working with clients unique and neuro diverse needs to support quality of life improvement. Exploring the importance of cognitive improvement through skills and strategies development, as well as understanding the emotional and relational experience of ADHD

Counselling For Trauma

Trauma informed counselling for recovery from complex PTSD (cPTSD), developmental trauma, and relational trauma such as parental abandonment or separation, emotional neglect, narcissistic parenting and/or substance use, and abuse. Symptoms of unaddressed trauma range from negative thoughts about self, excessive self-doubt and self-criticism, emotional outbursts or numbness, being triggered in relationships, hypervigilance, depression, anxiety, and general malaise.

Treatment includes safety and stabilization, trust building, psychoeducation, psychosomatic skills building, stress resilience training, reuniting with lost parts of self (Inner Child Work), mindfulness approaches, narrative therapy and developing a therapeutic lifestyle to move clients in the direction of post traumatic growth and recovery.

Counselling For Burnout

Counselling for burnout includes a holistic, bio-psycho-social assessment of all the possible factors contributing to the difficult experience of burnout, chronic fatigue or compassion fatigue: Lifestyle, behaviours, self-talk, beliefs and assumptions, social factors and relationships, boundaries and more.

Counselling For Depression

Working together to understand the origins of short term or longer term depression, develop unique and creative strategies to improve quality of life, and explore the cognitive (mental), emotional and somatic (bodily) components of mood, attitude and perception. Topics of grief and loss, unaddressed trauma, dark night of the soul, belief and identity restructuring, attitudes of acceptance, will to live, and being oneself are all on the table for discussion and therapeutic enhancement.

Counselling For Cannabis Addiction

This is an opportunity to take a closer look at your relationship with this plant and the possibility of redefining how you use, why you use, and whether or not you wish to continue. Some people use this drug for medicinal purposes, recreational, creative, and spiritual uses. It can become problematic if you notice changes in motivation (ie. reduced), emotional dysregulation or numbness, cannabis dependence, relational discord and conflict, excessive paranoia and/or self/other judgement, and especially if you are living with an excessive amount of inner conflict and cognitive dissonance about your use. If this level of ambivalence is present, it may be an opportune time to take a closer look.

In my work with many individuals who use cannabis for various reasons, I have found that many people do struggle with self-esteem and low self worth issues, difficulties with setting boundaries and communication challenges in relationships. It often surfaces that there has been some small or big trauma’s in their life, which cannabis was discovered and helped cope with the pain of such experiences and the impact they have had. A common theme for those I have worked with is also the felt experience that they can’t “Be Myself”. The work has been about strengthening the person so that the pain of Authenticity is more bearable, more desirable, that the pain of inauthenticity or unaddressed trauma and relational issues.

It is also possible to work with this drug/sacred plant (depending on your view of this “medicine”) in a more intentional way. For example, in areas of India, consumation with this plant has been used specifically for spiritual practice, such as meditation, prayer and devotion to God(Shiva). In the lineage of Kriya Yoga, it is explicitly spoken about: If you are going to use the plant, use it with intention and practice the Kriya Yoga Practices. (See a great discussion on the topic with Stephen Gray and Dr. Keith Lowenstein (https://youtu.be/-CyGcF24Rxo?si=JbPUkDRJCa8sTFfx)). Some food for thought. The main point is, an approach can be a “harm reduction” approach, and life enhancing, under the right conditions, with supportive

Ayahuasca Integration

Offering the preparatory ground work and crucially important integration work to support the transformation, wisdom and healing experienced through your Ayahuasca journey. It can be a big experience with much to unpack, and support from a guide in the transitional space can be instrumental.

Things to consider include: Unresolved trauma and the path to post traumatic growth, ancestral/familial trauma, living with intention, developing authentic spiritual practice, grief and loss, death and dying, Ego death and rebirth, social integration and healing relationships, career change and vocational guidance.