Holistic Counselling in Nelson, BC

There are beautiful things you want to create and experience in this life. But traumas and baggage are holding you back.

When we experience deep wounding, we find ways to adapt. We may have been faced with physical danger, relational double-binds, or other overwhelming stressors. We grew and evolved around the pain, intuitively coming up with strategies to avoid exposing ourselves to being hurt the same way again.

These strategies become both our superpower and our Achilles’ heel. Our particular way of navigating the world reflects the best solution we could come up with at the time that we were under threat.

Yet we may find ourselves repeating patterns of behaviour that frustrate or confuse us, patterns that don’t give us what we want but that seem to have a life of their own.

You are not fated to repeat the same old habits — but you may need some support to find a new way.

You have likely done quite a bit of self-reflection in your life. Perhaps you’ve identified key patterns of unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that you fall into.

Or perhaps you know that you’re stuck, but you need a external perspective to figure out exactly what is not right. You have the sense that life could be richer and more joyful than it currently is, but you don’t know where to start.

Sometimes, even great self-reflection does not lead to tangible results. We need to embody a different way of being.

Self-understanding is necessary, but simply having intellectual insights about our past and our patterns is not enough. We need to translate this knowledge into reality.

This might look like gaining the clarity to make changes in your circumstances and move towards what you desire. It might mean developing the capacity to be truly intimate with other people, without turning away. It might involve practicing self-compassion towards the parts of yourself that you wished you could analyze out of existence.

It will almost certainly involve connecting with your embodied reality, experiencing yourself as a feeling creature with a rich life of sensations and emotions. Although it may seem as though our thoughts are what make us suffer or bring us peace, I believe that it is really our sensations and feelings that run the show. It is our feelings that have the power to motivate us into action, for better or for worse, and that have the power to bestow that sense of well-being that we seek.

You are complex and multifaceted. Your treatment should reflect this.

I am passionate about providing care that addresses the whole person, working on multiple levels to help my clients achieve breakthroughs. I create personalized treatment plans with my clients that may include talk therapy, somatic therapy, and/or craniosacral therapy.

I will help you understand where you’ve been, connect deeply with the felt experience of what you are carrying with you now, and open the way for where your longings are asking you to go.

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