Counselling can help to support and meet the inner child!

We offer services to you combining head (cognition), heart (empathy) and hand (practice)!

This image shows a hiker/backpacker enjoying the Helen/Bow Lake areas. — Helen Lake is spectacular, and its entry point is on the Icefields Parkway. You start the hike adjacent to the road from Bow Lake.

Taking time for rest and recreation is critical, and counselling can supplement these self and social-care activities. The dictionary definition of “counselling” includes the following.

Advising
Communicating
Empathizing
Exploring
Guiding
Helping
Interviewing
Problem-solving
Suggesting
Supporting

Counselling can help you identify your needs and lessen personal and social isolation and environmental and legal challenges. There are many approaches to counselling and several accepted theories to reduce maladaptive stress. Distress can be a developmental, environmental and situational part of your life. Pressure may escalate into focus that you feel to be unbearable from a gradual build-up of tensions or perhaps sudden unexpected incidents. To reach such situations and thresholds is often not simply because of personal and social obstacles and could be a consequence of life’s unfolding and complex events.

We are well-informed about counselling theories and can help in the following sample areas.

Alcohol and substance abuse
Anger management
Anxiety
Conflict and pro-social change
Disaster
Death and dying
Dilemmas and disjunctures
Distressing thoughts and secret compulsions
Grief and loss
Motivational challenges
Parenting issues
Power inequities
Relationships and strengthening authentic engagements
Sense, mean-making and transforming chaos
Separation dis-ease
Stress
Trauma/critical incident debriefing
Violence ranging from home to work

In this scene, there are grazing horses and foothills in the foreground. — Kelowna sits in the Okanagan Valley of the southern interior region of British Columbia. These open fields can help you take time and enjoy the present. Our past is history, and tomorrow is a mystery. Could you set aside time to enjoy this current moment?

We can give you tele and video counselling to help you wherever possible. Let’s talk!