MAYBE THE FEAR IS THAT WE ARE LESS THAN WE THINK WE ARE,
WHEN THE ACTUALITY OF IT, IS THAT WE ARE MUCH, MUCH MORE.
- Jon Kabat Zin
SERVICES
COUNSELLING and NeurOptimal® NEUROFEEDBACK (aka Brain Training) are available for adults and youth (age 10 and up). Counselling is available for individuals, couples, and family groupings.
While Neurofeedback can only take place in person under Covid safe protocols, counselling may take place ONLINE, IN-PERSON, by TELEPHONE, or while walking a nearby forest path.
Counselling involves a process, relationship, and plan that we - client and therapist - create together. Additional supports for the process may include your own relationships, innate skills, your spiritual beliefs and practices; and may also include meditation, and/or NeurOptimal Neurofeedback (Brain Training). I am happy to help you to incorporate any of these into counselling.
Areas that I may help you with include –
Managing anxiety, stress, or depression
Enhancing family or other intimate relationships
Managing the impacts of addiction and recovery
Coping with grief and loss
Spousal separation
Understanding trauma and the ways it can interfere with relationships
Managing Adult ADHD
Exploring a possible career change
Major life transitions
and more.
Whatever your reasons for wanting counselling, being at ease with your counsellor is key to a successful outcome. In order to ensure the potential for a compatible mutual relationship, please call or email me to arrange a free 20-30 minute introduction.
STRESS MANAGEMENT & RESILIENCY TRAINING
As a UBC Certified Trainer in Stress Management & Resiliency Training (SMART) on the Sunshine Coast, I provide workshops for individuals, groups, families, and organizations.
More about Brain Training (NeurOptimal Neurofeedback)
Depending on your needs, NeurOptimal NEUROFEEDBACK, aka BRAIN TRAINING, may provide some of the same outcomes as counselling ….without counselling. Brain Training optimizes healthy mental and emotional functioning by reducing the effects of stress and reactivity, and improving the flexibility of your brain.
Without (often unconscious) reactivity, healthier sleep patterns may return, and the brain (re-learns) to operate more freely and optimally.
Many people report increased confidence & productivity; more fulfilling relationships; and increased creativity and happiness.
Obstacles, including stress, become more easily managed, and problems are more resolvable.
FOR MORE ON NEUROFEEDBACK, see MY APPROACH
TESTIMONIALS
“After six sessions using NeurOptimal, I noticed improvements in being able to handle dissapointments more dispassionately and being less prone to mood swings. I achieved a general state of emotional balance. I was able to feel more open, calmer, happier, and less "stuck" in negative emotions. My sleep even improved which greatly helped my overall health.
— CS
“As a meditator I am quite attuned to the fluctuations in my mental & emotional states, but the shifts and changes that took place in these states during the initial period of brain training have been very surprising and rewarding. I work in an institution where many things are out of my control; after 6 sessions I was in a typically complex and frustrating meeting but after the meeting when I would normally have been agitated I very surprisingly felt like I’d just come from a 4-day retreat!
After 15 sessions, my anxiety which was mostly manifest internally, is virtually non-existent, and I am sleeping well most nights. This seems to be my new way. I am generally more cheerful and more easily amused than before. I am also more organized, productive, creative, and hardly ever experience the negative mental chatter that would often cloud my perspective.”
— WN
“After completing 14 sessions to date, the results have far exceeded my expectations. As a woman in my mid 60’s, I was starting to experience normal cognitive decline. With limited recovery from the impacts of complex trauma, anxiety and depression, I hoped that brain training would enhance my wellbeing. I haven’t been disappointed. The shifts were subtle at first. The most surprising benefit is the regulation of my CNS, evidenced in a reduction of anxiety, reactivity to stress, negative, self-critical or fear-based thinking, insomnia and procrastination. Optimism, mental clarity and focus are increasing. I heard about brain training three years ago and dismissed it as a gimmick. I am so grateful that I gave it a chance this time!”
— SJ
What I have noticed so far with my Neuro sessions is that my thoughts no longer turn into emotions.
— AP