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COUNSELLING

Life brings both great joy and deep suffering........Counselling is about change

"The task of therapy is not to eliminate suffering but to give a voice to it, to find a form in which it can be expressed. Expression is itself transformation; this is the message that art brings. The therapist then would be an artist of the soul, working with sufferers to enable them to find the proper container for their pain, the form in which it would be embodied" – Stephen K. Levine

Therapeutic Services Offered:

- individual, family, and group therapy

- school age children, adolescents, and adults

THERAPEUTIC SERVICES

• self-esteem/body image

• grief/loss

• separation/divorce

• stress/coping skills

• self-injury

• parenting concerns

• parent-child/teen conflict

• relational concerns

• family of origin issues

• childhood trauma

• anxiety/depression/phobias

ISSUES ADDRESSED

There are many possible approaches to therapy, including using art or expressive arts in the process, using EMDR, body-focused approaches, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or mindfulness-based processes. Whatever therapy is used, it is part of an overall resource-oriented approach to treatment, meaning clients learn to build positive resources, as the therapist holds a resource-oriented attitude to the work.

The resource-oriented attitude held by the therapist is developed by bringing a sense of mindfulness to therapy, paying attention to where the strengths and resources show up. We are curious about the resource, noticing how it shifts and changes the client’s body experience, and staying with and expanding the favorable sensations and feelings. It is an important part of the work to end the therapy session in a well-resourced and grounded place.

RESOURCE-ORIENTED

APPROACH

“Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live Maybe one of these days you can let the light in Show me how big your brave is” From the song, “Brave” by Sara Bareilles – Stephen K. Levine

Most of my career has been spent working collaboratively with children, adolescents, and adults negotiating trauma-related experiences. They have taught me about their incredible capacity for being brave. Being brave did not mean they were not afraid. It meant that despite feeling afraid and wanting to avoid, they found the courage to face what they needed to face and learned to discover and recover their own inner strengths. Being brave is a life resource and part of our work together is to discover and celebrate your brave! This is what I call “brave therapy.”

If you are thinking of saying yes to therapy, you might consider how your own brave resource has helped you make it this far? How has your brave served you? Supported you? Moved you forward?

BRAVE THERAPY

To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.” Mark Nepo I believe that what is longed for and needed desperately in this

I believe that what is longed for and needed desperately in this world is the experience of being heard, being seen, and feeling felt, just as you are, right now. This is what the ear of the heart listening is. I believe it is the therapist’s job to offer the kind of presence that includes the ear of the heart listening - that is to truly listen, with fresh ears, to what is said and what is not said. Making connections, rebuilding attachments, and establishing a safe therapeutic relationship is central to our work.

EAR OF THE HEART LISTENING

COUNSELLING

THERAPEUTIC

SERVICES

ISSUES ADDRESSED

RESOURCE-ORIENTED

APPROACH

BRAVE THERAPY

EAR OF THE HEART

LISTENING

1528 - 12th Ave SW,

Calgary AB, T3C- 0P9

Tel: 403-618-2069

Monday - Thursday | 11am - 7:30pm

Friday/Saturday | Closed

Sundays & Holidays | Closed