Counselling Support, Therapy & Psychotherapy

• Anxiety
• Grief
• Depression
• Self-Esteem
• Mental Health
• Life Transitions
• Traumatic Stress
• Relationship Issues
• Psychosocial Stressors
• Perinatal Mental Health
• Chronic Health Challenges

The primary presenting issues Sheri works with include support for traumatic experiences, women’s issues, and resiliency building.

Trauma support includes working together to contain, process, and bring resolution to challenging emotional responses and symptoms associated with experiencing distressing and/or disturbing life events. These might include some of the following:

• Adverse Childhood Experiences within the Family of origin
• Historic or recently experienced domestic violence, intimate partner violence, or sexual assault
• Loss of a loved one
• Traumatic medical procedures
• Witnessing or experiencing a natural disaster
• Witnessing or experiencing community violence
• The impacts of working in a helping profession
• Historic or recent experiences of bullying and/or discrimination
• Motor vehicle accidents

Support with Women’s Issues might include identifying and exploring perspectives and strategies to navigate and manage some of the following:

• Life stages and transitions
• Parenting challenges
• Work-life balance
• Maternal health
• Perinatal mental health
• Chronic illness
• Self-Esteem
• Relationship challenges

Support with Resiliency Building includes exploring perspectives and practices to manage stress and the impact it has on our well-being. Building resilience helps us to adapt to difficult situations and manage the associated stress, adversity, trauma, anger, grief, and pain associated with some of the following:

• Workplace Stressors
• Family and relationship stressors
• Challenging life events
• Financial stress
• Caregiver stress
• Distressing community and world events
• Empathic Strain associated within work as a health care provider or helping professional

Trauma-informed treatment provides an acknowledgement of trauma, strength-based skill building, safety and trustworthiness, and offers opportunities for choice, control, and collaboration within the therapeutic process. Trauma-Informed services address the need for healing of traumatic life experiences and facilitate trauma recovery through counselling and other interventions, such as EMDR, CBT, Exposure Therapy, CPT, and more.

A Solution-Focused approach offers a short-term, future-oriented, goal-directed, and solution-building approach to resolving personal presenting issues. 

A Strengths-Based approach builds on an individual’s strengths and recognizes an individual’s capacity for resourcefulness and resilience in the face of adverse experiences.  

A Narrative approach in Counselling seeks to support an individual to adjust and tell alternative stories about their lives in order to bring about positive change and improved mental health. Narrative Therapy views an individual as an expert in their own life and as separate from their problems as they strive to shift from seeing the problem as an unchangeable part of self to an external issue that can be changed.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a non-traditional type of psychotherapy which uses rhythmic/rapid eye movements to process and shift the emotional charge held by an individual which is related to past events and contributing to current patterns of distressing thoughts, feelings and actions. The goal of EMDR sessions is to neutralize the emotional charge and shift negative thoughts and beliefs, moving an individual toward new insights and well-being associated with the person presenting issues and challenges the individual would like to change.          

Classical and Advanced Hypnosis guides an individual through a process that allows them to use their natural ability to change the way they think, feel, or behave. Hypnotherapy allows an individual to review significant events and emotional root causes contributing to the distressing belief, feeling, or behaviour they would like to change and encourages a shift toward an enhanced sense of well-being. 

Mindful Self-Compassion Coaching brings together a practice of the skills for mindfulness and self-compassion as a means to enhance an individual’s coping capacity and emotional resilience. Mindfulness is an approach to observing one’s difficult thoughts and feelings from a place of openness and curiosity while self-compassion offers an approach to responding to these difficult thoughts and feelings with kindness, understanding, and compassion to promote enhanced emotional well-being.