Our Philosophy
How We Do Things
Our Counselling Philosophy and approach
Port Moody Counselling Philosophy
The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you, it’s when you don’t understand yourself. Every person has the capacity to transform their lives by finding clarity and self empowerment.
We have successfully supported clients to:
- Overcome anxiety/panic and depression
- Manage OCD
- Feel more confident, increase self-esteem
- Have more loving relationships
- Resolve trauma (present and past)
- Manage anger and stress effectively
- Develop new perspectives and strategies for a healthier lifestyle
- Learn to live with the loss of loved ones
- Live with chronic illness in an effective and meaningful way
- Resolve family issues
- Cope effectively through separation and divorce
If you would like to learn more about our treatment approaches, please view the approaches to counselling page. If you have any questions please call or e-mail us.
Learning to love and be kind to ourselves is a lifelong journey.
Our Approaches
Approaches/Therapeutic Methods
Lifespan Integration
Solution-focused Therapy
Solution-focused counselling is a form of brief therapy, which looks at the client’s strengths within the problems they are having. The counsellor and client seek exceptions to the problem so that they can do more of what is working, rather than dwelling on the opposite.
The “miracle question” is posed: what would life look like if the problem were gone?
While conventional therapy may be past-oriented, solution-focused therapy is present- and future oriented.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy is used to process trauma. When we have trauma there are unprocessed memories. These memories have emotions, thoughts beliefs and physical sensations attached to them that you experienced at the time of the traumatic event. When these memories are triggered those stored elements can interfere with our daily living.
EMDR directly focuses on changing how the memory is stored in our brain and help resolve the disturbing thoughts, emotions, sensations and beliefs. EMDR does not require extensive exposure to the traumatic event. EMDR reduces the vividness of the traumatic experience and resolves the trauma using bilateral stimulation.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Humanistic Therapy
Narrative Therapy
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If you would like to learn more about our treatment approaches, please view the approaches to counselling page. If you have any questions please call or e-mail us.