North-Central Alberta (Westlock, Athabasca, and Beyond)
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Your Sessions
Your Goals
It's no surprise that life is difficult, lonely, and scary these days! Sometimes it's just plain daunting. But support and connection are available. Here are some reasons people are seeking supporting amid this climate crisis:
- To address overwhelming emotions
- To learn to cope with stress
- To find connection
- To voice their truth
- To openly express and explore fears
- To openly discuss and prepare for the future
- To create and choose options
- To heal past traumas
- To find inner peace
- To start enjoying life
- To learn and practice self-care
- To learn about and practice boundaries and limits
- To learn healthy coping skills
- To make sound decisions
- To decide "What next?"
- To move through transition
- To learn to slow down
- To learn to be present
- To get motivated
- To grieve change
- To grieve loss - e.g. loss of dreams, health, and future
- To navigate a specific crisis or lousy situation
- To find solutions
- To find meaning and purpose
- To define priorities
- To reach personal goals
- To obtain information and resources
- To improve relationships
- To practice healthy relationships
- To improve communication skills
- To practice communications skills
- To sleep better
- To eat better
- To manage time better
- To manage responsibilities better
- To know satisfaction
- To rethink career choice
- To navigate aging
- To figure out who they are
- To reach full potential
- To be "enough"
- To increase self-confidence
- To find a community of belonging
- To build a path
- To build resilience
- To take back their power
The list is long. The reasons are varied. And success is possible. What's more, positive changes can arise that were never intended or expected. Yes, counselling can help. It can help people healthily navigate this climate crisis and, in the process, even build resilience.
Our healthy planet needs our healthy selves.
MY APPROACH
I approach each session from a feminist counselling perspective, ensuring gender equality and women's empowerment. Furthermore, deeply rooted in somatic therapy, I offer body-based trauma therapy to heal frayed nervous systems. Body-based trauma therapy for body based trauma (see "About Me" - Addendum: What is (Climate) Trauma?).
Gentle, informative, and effective, body-based therapy is grounded in research, neuroscience (brain circuits, brain pathways, nervous systems), the mind-body connection, and dialogue. Accordingly, it furnishes lifelong results. What's more, I am trained and experienced in additional evidence-based therapy methods, including these:
- 12-Step Facilitation
- Bodynamic
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, "CBT"
- Family Systems Therapy
- Harm Reduction
- Mindfulness
- Motivational Interviewing
- Nature Therapy
- Person-Centred Therapy
- Psychoeducation
- Rest and Play Body-Based Approach to Self Care ©, 2024, S Mahon, PhD & D Keith, PhD
- Safety, Resource, Dose, Repair Model of Developmental Shock Trauma, "SRDR", T Prodan
- Self Regulation Therapy, "SRT" (see Somatic Experiencing)
- Somatic Experiencing, "SE"
OUR COLLABORATION
Then, too, there is teamwork. Together, you and I work as a team, developing a healthy relationship and work toward the goals you choose. Yes, the goals you choose. You might, for example, decide to discuss concerns or explore symptoms or heal wounds or address a specific situation. Together, we review your goals; determine the type and extent of your counselling; engage in counselling,; and evaluate your progress.
All of this in a safe place and with an open heart. No judgment. No shame. Unconditional respect. And absolute confidentiality.
PHOTO ABOVE
"Let us linger here a while in the foolishness of things." - anonymous
(Phantom River Refuge)