Counselling
Healing, integrity and fulness.
The intent of this practice in counselling is to invite awareness in the hope of healing and transformation.
Counselling is intended to participate in the healing of wounds and to provide a space for you to develop an awareness of your inner life, to take responsibility, to foster gratitude, to strengthen relationships, to forgive, and to understand your story in a way that generates a full life.
In this work we will practice noticing emotional and instinctive reactions that ‘happen’ within you which may have helped you survive in the past, but which are limiting you and creating barriers in your life and relationships. We will also practice awareness of inner conflict. The hope is that you will become graceful in your noticing and get a little room to breathe inside. The intent is that you will be more able to move freely from a strong and rooted core.
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 believe in the long journey of forgiveness. I am influenced by Existential approaches to Counselling and by Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment, which in my understanding invites us to understand our fragmentation and find ways to facilitate inner dialogue and movement. 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 believe the natural world is the relationship in which we are sustained, healed and taught the Good.
I live in the world in faith that God makes, loves and sustains the world. This faith frees me from anxiety about belief: all walks of faith or unfaith are welcome, nothing will be imposed. Imposition has no place in freedom or love.
