Individual Counselling
You’ve come to the right place.
Do you dread looking in the mirror because you don't recognize the person looking back?
You feel disgusted and ashamed because you just can't figure it out. What has happened?
Life has been challenging and you often feel alone.
Your relationships cause you stress.
You can't say no; you always feel so obligated.
None of your effort ever seems to result in change.
You are so tired!
You just want to feel free and be yourself.
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Freedom is waiting and it is for you; God wants you to be free in your spirit, your mind, and your body.
Come, there is always room for you on the couch.
Services
Fee for all services is $175/60 minutes
(covered by most insurance plans)
(Currently only accepting women for individual counselling)
- Integrated Mental and Physical Health Counselling-'From the Ashes'
- Coordinated Approach-physical and mental health are not separate. Integrated counselling considers physical and mental health problems together.
- Backed by scientific evidence-evidence-based approach to coordinate physical and mental wellness.
- Common Issues-problems in menopause or peri-menopause, weight gain, anxiety, depression, low energy, low mood, feeling like you have lost yourself, gut problems, sleep issues, foggy brain.
- What to Expect.
- Comprehensive Assessment-looks at lifestyle, practices, issues, challenges.
- ACE score-(adverse childhood events), looks at the role trauma may play in your ongoing challenges.
- Attachment Style-implications for relationships, understanding yourself and how you interact with others.
- Mental health counselling in coordination with a lifestyle plan.
- May include partnership with physician and/or BHRT clinic-blood tests, prescriptions.
- Eating and exercise plan
- Ongoing mental health counselling and monitoring.
- Traditional Mental Health Counselling-'Renewing the Mind'
- Assessment-looks at your life to identify challenges.
- Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy-approach to counselling that is consistent with scriptural principles and recognizes that we possess a mind and emotion.
- Focuses primarily on mental health
- Issues addressed may include;
- trauma
- relationship issues
- depression
- anxiety
- grief and loss
- crisis of faith
- issues of faith and church.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Why it all matters!
- Why does all this matter and why do you matter?
- Because you are created in the imago Dei, the image of God, that is what gives you your value as a human being. (Genesis 1:27)
- Your body is valuable and is the temple of the Holy Spirit. God wants you to care for it properly without idolizing it. (1 Corinth 3:16-17)
- God has created you with great love and care and your body is an incredibly spectacular gift. (Psalm 139:13-14)
Did you know?
Information Overload
There is such a barrage of information coming at us, especially about diet, weight loss, and lifestyle, that it becomes very difficult to sift through and find the truth and the bits that we can really grab onto.
- The Medical Model believes in treating sickness. (Medical Model)
- Those who want to prevent sickness need a different model.
- The Functional Medical Model: (Functional Medicine)
o Looks for root causes instead of simply treating symptoms.
o Focuses on prevention.
o As a patient-centred approach, it empowers the individual.
o The holistic approach understands the importance of the whole person, not only the body.
You must swim against the current of society!
Our culture promotes a lifestyle that inevitably leads to health challenges and a danger to our physical and mental health.
As believers, we need to find a way to be in the world, but not of the world. (John 17:14-16)
- Ultra-Processed food - our popular food options are often highly processed and contribute to disease. (Processed Food)
- Food that comes out of a box, bag, or has a barcode is not real food.
- It does not just affect your physical body; it affects your mind.
- It promotes weight issues because it creates hunger and hunger always wins! (Dr. Ben Bikman)
- Trauma
- High stress levels – In his book, The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté argues that sickness in old age is not normal, as our society has come to believe, but that it is the result of a lifetime of unmitigated stress stemming largely from unresolved trauma. I agree.
- ACE Study - links chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, obesity, and addiction to childhood abuse. (ACE Study)
- Less Connected
- Social media gives the illusion of connectedness without any real connectedness. (Scrolling Ourselves Sick)
- Physical touch from a person you feel loved by and deeply connected to actually mitigates our perception of pain. (Lending a Hand)
- Less connected to nature
- General Revelation
- God shows us who He is through everything He has made. (Romans 1:20)
- Healing power of nature - even the secular world recognizes the power of being connected to nature. (The Mindblowing Healing Power of Nature)
- Lowers blood pressure.
- Lowers stress hormones.
- Encourages physical activity.
- Sedentary Life
- We are increasingly sedentary as a culture.
- In the first century, a days journey is estimated to have been 32 to 40 kilometres. (A Days Journey)
- Exercise has many benefits. (7 Reasons Why Exercise Is Still Important)
- Menopause (Your Guide to Menopause)
- For too long, menopause was viewed as a natural part of aging and was not well understood. Women were expected to just suffer through it.
- Low levels of estrogen have been linked to:
- Cardiovascular disease
- Increased risk of Alzheimer’s and/or dementia
- Weight Gain/Obesity
- Hypertension
- Type 2 diabetes
- Autoimmune disorders
- Osteoporosis
- Hot flashes
- Poor sleep.
(After Decades of Misunderstanding, Menopause is Finally Having Its Moment)
- Depression – increased sadness/irritability/loss of interest. (Can Menopause Cause Depression?)
- Insulin Resistance (Reversing Chronic Disease and Aging by Fixing Insulin Resistance)
- Most functional medicine physicians agree that insulin resistance is among the most serious health problems facing the developed world today.
- While there may be a genetic predisposition in some people, for most of us, it is caused almost entirely by lifestyle.
- Excess body fat.
- Poor diet.
- High sugar consumption.
- Not enough exercise.
- The good news is that lifestyle changes can reverse insulin resistance before it turns into type 2 diabetes.
There is good news!
- With some help and direction, your life can change for the better.
- In fact, I’ll bet if you knew what to do to make a difference, you would be doing it right now.
- I’ve been there, floundering around grasping at anything that looked promising only to struggle to realize true and lasting change.
- There are solutions that genuinely work!
o You can lose weight…and keep it off!
o You can feel happier without drugs.
o You can heal from trauma.
o You can heal much that ails your physical body.
o You can enjoy life.
o You can find fulfillment in life.
- Let me help you find freedom in your whole life; body and mind.