Our Integrative Approach to Counselling comes from a deep trust in the fulfilling experience of knowing ourselves honestly and holistically. We benefit when all parts of our being are acknowledged and accepted. All parts of ourselves want and need to work together – to integrate.

Challenging feelings or emotions are often the very thing that moves us into discovering what is really true about ourselves and our lives. Our emotional feelings help us know when we need to pay attention to something, even when we don’t necessarily know what that “something” is. Disregarded, denied or repressed feelings tend not to go away; they just show up in a different way.

Painful or uncomfortable emotions are most often those that get labeled as “irrational or wrong.”
The need to judge one’s emotions as good or bad, rational or irrational, is learned from social constructs that are often unhelpful. Counselling provides a supportive atmosphere where individual’s can question their own learnt “judging authority” in order to accept one’s own deep authority.

Sometimes incorporating Dream work, journaling, working with images or other techniques, emotions-focused counselling can utilize the energy that is contained in the emotion – toward motivation and action.

Telling our stories and simply having our feelings validated can often be the healing balm to the Soul. Deep work is often necessary to heal old wounds, move through the pain of the past and connect with our own potentials and purpose. Allowing our emotions to have validity can give us the freedom to access and honor our own deep intuitive knowing.