Healing Happens Through Connection - Let’s Talk
In-Person and virtual counselling in Victoria, BC
Hi, I’m Simone.
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with over 5 years of experience working with clients from varying populations and backgrounds including members of LGBTQ2SIA+, BIPOC, and neurodivergent communities. I come from a trauma informed, feminist, and collaborative approach drawing on Narrative therapy, Mindfulness, and Emotional Focused Therapy. I am EMDR certified and proud to offer this effective trauma treatment to clients upon request.
MY COUNSELLING METHODS
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
A structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (eye movements) which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories (American Psychological Association).
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NARRATIVE THERAPY
Is a form of therapy that aims to separate the individual from the problem, allowing the individual to externalize their issues rather than internalize them (Narrative Therapy, 2017).
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EFT
Emotion Focused Therapy
Is a method that leads therapist and client toward strategies that promote the awareness, acceptance, expression, utilization, regulation, and transformation of emotion as well as corrective emotional experience with the therapist (American Psychological Association).
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“Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection.”
Dr. Gabor Maté
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