A Better Life Consulting and Counselling offers counselling services to meet a variety of needs including:
Stress
Anxiety/worry
Grief/loss issues
Burnout
Workplace bullying
Difficult choices
Workplace difficulty
Self esteem
Depression/blues
Relationship issues
Divorces/separation
Anger
Trauma
Abuse
Therapy is personalized to meet the needs and goals of individuals or couples. Even though two specific techniques are listed below, A Better Life Consulting and Counselling offers a variety of techniques that can be used to help you reach your goal.
The following are specific types of counselling treatments: Grief Recovery Program, specifically for dealing with grief issues Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for the treatment of trauma
Grief RecoveryŽ Program
There are more than 40 events that can create the range of human emotions called grief. Death of a loved one, divorce, and estrangements head the list. Whether your loss was recent or long ago, it may still be limiting your ability to participate fully in life.
Grief Recovery is a step-by-step process:
Recover from significant emotional loss
End isolation
End self-sabotage
Regain happiness and joy
When is it time to do my "grief work"? This is the most difficult question facing grievers. Part of the problem stems from the biggest single inaccurate idea that we were all socialized to believe: that "time heals all wounds." Time does not heal. Actions can help discover and complete unfinished emotional business. When can I begin to discover and complete all of the things that I wish had ended "different, better or more," and all of the broken "hopes, dreams, and expectations" about the future? The answer is immediately. Waiting to do grief work is potentially dangerous. Most likely you've heard that grievers tend to create larger than life memory pictures in which they either "enshrine or bedevil" the person who died. This phenomenon increases with time, making it more difficult to discover the "truth" within the relationship.
EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR is a method of therapy that has been shown effective for the treatment of trauma. The Department of Veteran Affairs and Department of Defense (US) have placed EMDR in category A for strongly recommended treatment of trauma. EMDR is also being used, and researched gathered, on issues of panic, phobias, anxiety, somatoform disorders.
In the broadest sense, EMDR is intended to alleviate human suffering and assist individuals and human society to fulfill their potential for development while minimizing risks of harm in its application. For the client, the aim of EMDR treatment is to achieve the most profound and comprehensive treatment effects in the shortest period of time, while maintaining client stability within a balanced family and social system.
Booking an Appointment Booking an appointment is as easy as calling Gail at 403.527.3936. Starting September 2011, appointments will be on Monday and Tuesday (late morning/last appointment at 3 pm), Thursday, and alternate Saturdays.
Payment Payment is made after each session and can either be cash, debit, mastercard, or visa. Many will have extended health coverage that may cover or partially cover the cost of your counselling. Gail is also involved with several Employee Assistance Programs that may cover the costs of the sessions.