Counselling
Healing, integrity and fulness.
The intent of this practice in counselling is to help you engage the question “Who am I, what have I been given in this life, and what is the good to which I am called?” I intend to support your journey towards integration and fulness by participating in the healing of wounds and by providing a space for you to make meaning, take responsibility, foster gratitude, strengthen relationships, forgive, and understand your story in a way that generates a full life.
The natural world is the relationship in which we are sustained, healed and taught the Good.
Thus, I invite clients at important junctions to come to the forest near where I live. There we do our work within the forest’s strong greening force of healing life.
I am a Canadian Certified Counsellor with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and a Master of Research in Philosophical Theology. In 19 years of related experience I have worked with people of all ages and socioeconomic status. I live near lake Winnipeg in quiet, my work is done on the phone, in person in Winnipeg and in the forest setting.
I work with your life story, I believe that telling your story is the path towards healing the hurt, integrating the teachings which life has given you, and finding your way forward. I believe in the long journey of forgiveness. I am influenced by Existential approaches to Counselling. I am trained as a Circle of Security Parenting program facilitator which equips me to help parents and others to be with their loved ones in life affirming ways. The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius and other spiritual disciplines deeply inform my work.
I live within a world where God is the source of all existence. This belief frees me from anxiety about belief: all walks of faith or unfaith are welcome.
