Personal Counselling

Coaching is a targeted approach to development aimed at supporting you to achieve specific personal or professional goals. Through a facilitated exploration process that focuses on promoting your self- management, choices, competence, and wellbeing, coaching can encourage you to achieve desired results or change in ways that maximize your agency and confidence in decision making.

Assertive Communication Training helps you to strengthen relationships and reduce stress. It can include strategies for mediating conflict and exploring collaborative problem-solving to support getting your needs met, setting boundaries, and achieving win-win outcomes to situations.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that is based on the idea that the way we think and feel affects how we behave. CBT helps you to identify unrealistic thoughts, evaluate whether they are reasonable perceptions of your situation, and, if they are not, use strategies to overcome them. CBT works by identifying realistic and unrealistic thoughts about a situation, shifting negative or unreasonable beliefs, and taking actions to support productive ways of thinking and acting in your daily life.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a form of therapy that combines several techniques and strategies (such as mindfulness, acceptance, and emotional regulation) to support with the management of difficult or stressful experiences in your life, such as intense emotions or conflict in relationships. Heavily focused on skills training, DBT teaches you how to accept your existing thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, as well as techniques to change them.

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a form of psychotherapy based on the belief that emotions are closely connected to functioning, including our ability to make decisions and meaningful changes in life. EFT focuses on how emotions can guide healing and growth, by working to support acceptance, expression, regulation, and transformation of emotional experiences.

Existential Therapy focuses on choice, self-determination, and the search for meaning and often centers on you rather than on the symptom. The approach emphasizes your abilities to make rational choices and to develop to your maximum potential. The goal: You learn to make preferred decisions about how you live, drawing on creativity and connection, instead of letting outside events determine your behavior.

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a form of therapy that integrates cognitive therapy, meditation, and mindfulness practices. Using these tools, MBCT helps you to look at automatic thoughts and focus less on reacting to them and instead accepting and observing them without judgment. This helps you to break away from the effects of negative thought patterns and move toward more awareness and coping.

Narrative Therapy involves a high degree of self-reflection and self-awareness about the stories you tell yourself about difficult situations that shape how you understand the problems you’re facing. Techniques are used to shift these narratives or “stories” about problems, different ways of coping become clear, and presenting issues seem more manageable, and effective solutions more evident.

Person-Centered Therapy takes a highly client-oriented approach to talk therapy that moves the expertise from therapist to client. Based on the belief that each person is the expert in their own life and experience, person-centered therapy invites you as the client to lead conversations about presenting problems in your life, with the compassion and support of a therapist, until desired solutions are discovered.

Psychoeducation is an evidence-based therapeutic intervention that provides information and support to better understand and cope with challenges. Psychoeducation teaches problem-solving and communication skills and provides education and resources in an empathetic and supportive way.

Relaxation Techniques can help you to manage stress and anxiousness and can involve a wide range of strategies including grounding, breathing, and meditation techniques.

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) concentrates on finding solutions and exploring your hope for the future to help you resolve problems. This goal-oriented method looks at times when problems aren’t actively affecting you and takes the approach that you have useful information about what will improve your life and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding and using the best solutions for you.