Counselling & Coaching

 
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What is Counselling & Coaching?

Coaching & Counselling provides virtual and in-person coaching and counselling for all life stages. The approach helps individuals grow through a creative blend of deep listening, mindfulness, intuition, meditation, and practical strategies. Coaching & Counselling assists with life challenges such as life stress, relationship and work challenges, parenting overwhelm, and major transitions.

How can Counselling & Coaching help me?

Personal & Anxiety Coaching

Coaching is a creative, personalized blend of mindfulness practices, mind-body awareness, and concrete, solution-focused dialogue.  A coach works with you to gain insight into areas where you feel stuck, unclear or frustrated, and co-creates a plan for change. See worries and repetitive challenges from a fresh perspective. Feel supported as you prepare for and adjust to different life challenges or transitions through life, including birth & the pre/postnatal period. Learn ways to feel more accepting of yourself, even if you are still a work in progress.

Clinical Therapy

Counselling services with a clinical therapist, combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) strategies and interventions can assist you in understanding and overcoming emotional and mental health concerns and difficulties. Such issues include: experiencing difficulties with depression (including postpartum depression), anxiety, panic attacks, social awkwardness, phobias, body image and eating disorders, anger, stress as well as struggling with regards to parenting, relationship, self- esteem, trauma, grief or loss.

Fertility

Trying to build a family can bring with it high levels of social, emotional, physical and relationship stress. This stress may affect many aspects of life including the ability to become pregnant. Fertility counseling can help clients manage these stresses as well as help sort through the choices and decisions to make on the journey to being parents.

Grief & Loss Counselling

Losing someone, something, a baby, a pregnancy - is very painful. Even the loss of a potential future often will trigger feelings of grief. Healing from loss is a highly personal and individual process and experience. A counselor can help navigate these stages of grief to help heal.

 Postpartum Depression

Having a baby can be very stressful no matter how much the baby is planned, anticipated or loved. The baby blues are normal but if these feelings intensify or don’t go away after a few weeks clients may have postpartum depression. PPD can interfere with the ability to take care of a child and self so getting support and counseling right away is important in returning to a happy motherhood.

Therapy for Adolescents

Adolescence is a challenging and difficult transition period. Struggles often arise with regards to anxiety, depression, body image and eating disorders, self-esteem, anger, relationships or simply with not feeling like oneself. In order to optimize and improve an adolescent’s mental health, individual counselling for teens in conjunction with emotion coaching for parents may be beneficial in providing strategies to successfully identify and voice the thoughts, feelings and behaviors associated with their experience.

 Whole Life Coaching

“Whole Life Coaching” is defined as an ongoing partnership that helps clients produce meaningful results in their professional and personal lives.  Through the process of coaching clients broaden their learning, improve their performance and embrace their quality of life.

Access Bars

Access Bars are 32 points on the head that through gentle touch, create an opening for greater processing and integration within your body. This technique is non-invasive and deeply relaxing, working somatically to release thoughts, beliefs, ideas and emotions that may be creating tension within your life. 

Our Team

Hendrike Isert Bender MSW, RSW, Registered Social Worker

Jessica Hagen,
Certified Whole Life Coach