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Proven interventions designed to help you achieve your need

You deserve a compassionate therapist … someone to make you feel safe, secure and connected while they guide you through the healing process.

Therapy can provide strategies for coping with difficult feelings, as well as healthy approaches for improving self-esteem, finding your own voice, or managing difficult behaviors. Specific issues we can support with are:

  • Emotional impacts of chronic illness and health issues
  • Dealing with past trauma
  • Embracing one’s authentic self
  • Exploring early childhood patterns and other difficulties that effect everyday life
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Effective interventions tailored to the goals you have in life

At Golden Ears Counselling Centre, we strive to support and promote lifelong change that will allow you to form sustainable, healthy relationships and an overall sense of wellbeing. By building on a foundation of traditional therapy, our integrative approach combines the best practices that Western and Eastern medicine have to offer.

Our therapy approach utilizes the following principles:

SCIENTIFICALLY GROUNDED

ACT

Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) incorporates mindfulness and goal-setting, based on personal values, to support you in living a meaningful life.

CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on teaching you about your thoughts, emotions and behaviors. The therapist works with you to challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches personal coping strategies to achieve therapeutic goals.

ERP

Exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP) supports people struggling with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to reduce the impairment caused by acute fears, intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.

CUSTOMIZED

life challenges we treat include:

  • Social Phobia and Social Anxiety
  • Generalized Anxiety
  • Social Anxiety
  • Specific Phobias
  • Depression and Mood
  • Stress and Trauma Related Disoordeers
  • Eating Disorders
  • Body Image and Food Relationship Challenges
  • Difficulties with Self-Regulation
  • Challenges around Acculturation
  • Anxiety & Stress
  • Generalized Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Autism
  • Social Development Delays

HOLISTIC

When appropriate, therapy sessions incorporate mindfulness, mind-body awareness and explore how your community, values and identity play a role in improving your psychological health.

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