Specialities

Each of us is the sum of our experiences in life. The secret is discovering how those experiences interrelate. I offer professional counselling in the areas described below.

Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma

Trauma is a person’s emotional response to a distressing experience. Few people can go through life without encountering some kind of trauma. Unlike ordinary hardships, traumatic events tend to be sudden and unpredictable, involve a serious threat to life, such as bodily injury or death, and feel beyond a person’s control. Most important, events are traumatic to the degree that they undermine a person's sense of safety in the world and create an underlying fear that catastrophe could strike at any time.

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Disabilities

Disability is any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or effectively interact with the world around them. These conditions or impairments may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a combination of multiple factors. Impairments causing disability may be present from birth or can be acquired during a person's lifetime. Historically, disabilities have been viewed as fitting a narrow set of conditions-- however, disabilities are not binary and can be present unique characteristics depending on the individual. Often, disabled people are "unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society.

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Addiction

Addiction is the need for a substance or behaviour that feels out of control. It is a habit that involves the building up tolerance, often experienced as always needing more to feel satisfied. Addiction affects both the brain and the body, seriously disrupting people's efforts to live a satisfying life. Addiction is a subjective illness that may affect each of us in different ways.

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