What is Counselling Therapy?
Counselling/Therapy is designed to be a goal-oriented process to help you enhance and improve resiliency, social function and overall well-being. Exploring your challenges and thoughts with a professional in a non-judgmental, safe environment, can make you feel less alone and better able to adapt with life’s transitions and changes.
Counselling can help you explore your alternatives, build your strengths and learn to cope with life changes or losses. Talking to a therapist is sometimes easier than discussing personal issues with friends and family.
Speaking with a therapist is a collaborative relationship that helps and enables you to develop trust in yourself, as well as better insight to help you move forward and grow.
Counselling can help you to:
- Understand and manage grief and other loss, such as relationship breakdowns, unemployment and family struggles
- Youth struggling with internet and intrapersonal relationships and other changes.
- Helping to manage anxiety and mild depression
- Improve career satisfaction and work-life balance;
- Improve self-esteem and overall life satisfaction;
- Improve your mood and learn ways to better self-regulate
- Develop a more positive outlook and healthier lifestyle
With one of our therapist’s experience, both personally and professionally, with the trauma, tragic life events and with the emotional toll of being a first responder, she is here to help with:
- Processing trauma in a safe and understanding environment
- Navigate the intricate needs of people struggling with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Help family members of people suffering with PTSD and C-PTSD who are struggling on the best path forward and how to effectively support their family members
- Establishing a safe relationship with first responders prior to major traumatic events and coaching them in how to best prepare for the demands of their job and best steps to take when traumatic events occur.
Meet Our Therapists
Susan Young
Susan Young, a graduate of Acadia University with a Master of Education in Counselling, is a compassionate therapist dedicated to helping individuals navigate life’s challenges. As a member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists, she specializes in supporting clients aged 15 and older.
Kate Stanley
Kate Stanley is a Registered Counselling Therapist (candidate) with extensive experience in emergency services and a deep commitment to mental health care. She holds a BA in Health Administration, a diploma in Paramedicine, and a graduate degree in Counselling Psychology. Kate specializes in supporting individuals facing trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions, with a particular focus on first responders.