I think that my job as counsellor is not to provide you, the client, with the answers you seek, but to assure you that you already have all the answers hidden within yourself. My job is that of guide, someone who holds the light aloft, helping you see the pitfalls, the rewards and the forks in the road upon which you are journeying. I will rejoice in your successes, encourage you along the way, and reframe your defeats to be used in positive and opportunistic ways. But what I must always do is hear you, not only with my ears but with my heart as well.
I am a qualified counsellor, and a member of the Canadian Professional Counselling Association. All therapists work from certain models of counselling. I consider myself an 'integrated' therapist, working with bits and pieces of different counselling models to create a tailor-made plan for each of my clients. Individually, some of these modes of counselling often don't resonate for me, but the synergistic nature of combining theories, does. When pressed to explain my own 'integrated' counselling philosophy, I feel that emphasis needs to be placed on 'feeling the feelings' of childhood wounds, moving on then to adult hurts, working through those feelings and releasing them. This, coupled with behavioral changes, makes for good therapy, in my view.