Issues Worked With

Common

Relationship and Interpersonal Issues

  • Parenting Issues: Providing strategies to address challenges in raising children, including discipline, communication, and behavioural concerns.
  • Social Anxiety: Helping individuals with fears related to social situations and interactions.
  • Relationships: Support for strengthening connections with others — from friendships to family and romantic bonds. Therapy can help address conflict, trust issues, or communication difficulties.
  • Marriages: Focused counselling for couples navigating the challenges of long-term partnership. Whether it’s resolving conflict, improving communication, or rebuilding intimacy, therapy provides a supportive space to nurture and strengthen your marriage.

Stress and Coping

  • Work Stress: Managing work-related stress, burnout, and achieving a healthy work-life balance.
  • Life Transitions: Navigating major life changes like moving, career shifts, or retirement.
  • Trauma: Healing from past experiences such as accidents, violence, or distressing events that continue to affect emotional wellbeing.
  • Abuse: Support for those who have experienced emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and want to rebuild confidence, safety, and trust.

Grief and Loss

  • Bereavement: Support for individuals coping with the death of a loved one.
  • Divorce: Helping individuals process the emotional impact of separation and moving forward.

Self-Esteem and Personal Growth

  • Self-worth Issues: Addressing negative self-beliefs and boosting self-esteem.
  • Identity Issues: Exploring questions of personal identity, including gender, sexuality, and cultural or ethnic identity.

Addiction and Substance Abuse

Eating Disorders

  • Anorexia Nervosa: Extreme restriction of food intake, fear of gaining weight, and distorted body image.
  • Bulimia Nervosa: Episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviours like purging.
  • Binge Eating Disorder: Recurrent episodes of eating large quantities of food without purging.

Psychosomatic Issues

  • Chronic Pain: Addressing the emotional components of dealing with chronic illness or pain.
  • Somatic Symptom Disorder: Dealing with physical symptoms that are influenced by psychological factors, often with no clear medical explanation.