Trauma Counselling Vancouver
Trauma Counselling
Have you experienced or witnessed an event that involved either real or perceived threat of injury or death? Did the event lead to feelings of intense fear, helplessness or horror? Do you find yourself reliving aspects of the event, or avoiding reminders of the event? Do you tend to be easily startled?
Trauma counselling can help! Recovering from trauma includes: education, skill development and addressing the traumatic events you experienced.
Understanding trauma includes learning about:
Coping with the symptoms of trauma requires learning relaxation techniques, visualization, breathing exercises, wellness planning, and skills to specifically help you deal with your feelings in effective and healthy ways.
Most importantly, people experience trauma symptoms because the traumatic experiences have not been processed, so recovery also involves therapeutic processing of these events within a safe and comfortable environment.
Addictions Counselling
Do you tend to work, drink, eat, etc. more than you feel you should, or more than you actually want to? Do you feel stuck in patterns of thinking, feeling or behaving that you just can’t seem to break? Is your life in recovery going well, but you just feel there’s something missing? Do you have a family member or friend with addictions, and find it difficult to cope with?
Counselling can help with overcoming addiction, achieving emotional sobriety, and coping with the addict. It’s helpful to know about:
- what is addiction?
- signs and symptoms of addiction
- recovery from addiction
- what is emotional sobriety?
- coping with the addict friend or family member
- trauma and addiction
Counselling for Depression
Do you feel tired all the time? Do you lack motivation, or have difficulty concentrating? Do you tend to isolate yourself from life? Have you experienced a recent loss that has been difficult to accept or heal from? Do you feel helpless or hopeless?
Overcoming depression is possible and also includes education, skill development, and addressing underlying issues that caused the condition. Find out:
Benefits of counselling
Some of the benefits of trauma counselling, addictions counselling, or counselling for depression include:
- Feeling better about yourself, as you learn knowledge and skills to help you to understand and manage the challenges you face;
- Becoming more satisfied with life as you clear away past hurts, and improve or strengthen your relations with others;
- Overcoming unhealthy patterns of feeling, thinking or behaving which have prevented you from reaching your life goals;
- Shifting from reacting to situations to responding to situations in healthy ways, leading to improved confidence; and
- Self awareness and personal growth.
Freedom begins with a single step!
I provide counselling to individuals throughout the Lower Mainland of BC, as my office is easily accessible and centrally located in Downtown Vancouver, across the street from the new Waterfront Sky Train Station.
Don’t ignore the problem any longer!
Simply contact me so we can decide together whether counselling is a good option for you at this time.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Dr Barbara Harris, PhD, MSW, RSW
Phone: 604-728-4535 / Fax: 604-688-7715
Email: barbara-harris@live.ca
Serving the whole Lower Mainland, including, Vancouver, North Vancouver,
West Vancouver and Fraser Valley with:
Trauma Counselling, Counselling for Depression, and Addictions Counselling
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What is Trauma?, Symptoms of Trauma, Trauma and the Brain, Trauma Recovery, Approaches to Trauma Therapy
What is Addiction?, Recovery from Addictions, Emotional Sobriety, Coping with the Addict, Trauma and Addiction
What is Depression?, Symptoms of Depression, Treatment for Depression, What You Can Do
