Healing Narratives
Counselling
Rewriting Your Narrative, Embracing Healing
The power of telling your story, in a safe space, allows us to transform the foreign into the familiar—making the unspeakable speakable. Your narrative and yours alone, can bring you awareness and closure.
Welcome to Healing Narratives Counselling Inc.
Welcome to Healing Narratives Counselling, where your journey to healing begins. We believe in the transformative power of rewriting your story and that healing starts with recognizing and understanding the impacts of trauma. This is why trauma-informed care is the core foundation of our counselling services.
Our approach is holistic, root-cause-focused, and person-centred. We prioritize safety, understanding, and empowerment. Our role is to equip you with the tools needed to build a foundation for healing, helping you rediscover feelings of safety and security within yourself and your relationships.
Discover the Services
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Explore our counselling services with a 30-minute free consultation. This initial session is designed to help you understand how counselling can be tailored to meet your unique needs. During this time, we will discuss your goals for therapy and determine how we can best support you.
This consultation offers a safe space to begin your journey towards healing, with no obligation to continue.
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Stephanie provides 50-minute Telehealth counselling to clients across Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta. Her approach incorporates attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and a systemic perspective.
Stephanie helps clients develop more secure attachment patterns, manage their emotions, and build healthier relationships by exploring the impact of their social context. Her counselling services offer a comprehensive and holistic approach to supporting clients' mental health and well-being.
Individual sessions run between 50-60 minutes.
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Attachment-based couples counselling typically involves helping couples identify their attachment styles and how they impact their relationship dynamics. It also includes exploring past experiences that may have shaped a person's attachment style, and how these experiences continue to affect their current relationships.
Telehealth counselling services are conducted via a secure online platform, which allows you and your partner to participate in counselling sessions from the comfort of your own home.
Sessions typically run between 60-90 minutes.
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Expressive Arts Therapy provides individuals with various creative outlets to process and express their experiences in a safe and supportive environment.
Engaging in creative activities can help individuals reconnect with their inner selves, reduce symptoms of trauma, and pave the way for personal growth and recovery.
Stay tuned for upcoming information on the launch of our art therapy workshops.
Counselling Approaches
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A trauma-informed approach to counseling centers on understanding how your past experiences influence your current thoughts and feelings. I provide a supportive space that recognizes and addresses the enduring impact of life's challenging moments on your mental and emotional well-being.
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Attachment-based counseling focuses on understanding how an individual's early attachment experiences influence their current interpersonal relationships and behaviors.
These early experiences can shape how one relates to others, affecting their ability to form secure and healthy connections.
Attachment-based counseling aims to address these underlying patterns, promoting the development of healthier, secure attachments. This therapeutic approach often involves exploring past relationship dynamics to enhance self-awareness and adjust maladaptive attachment behaviors, facilitating more fulfilling and secure relationships in the present.
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Schema therapy is a holistic approach that helps you understand and change deep-rooted patterns or "schemas" that influence your thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. These schemas are “negative core beliefs” that form in childhood based on your experiences and can affect how you relate to yourself and others. By identifying and addressing these schemas, we can work together to break negative cycles and develop healthier ways of thinking and coping, leading to more fulfilling and balanced relationships and life experiences.
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A System's approach is like looking at the big picture of your life. It's a way of understanding how your relationships and the world around you influence the way you think, feel, and act. This approach helps us explore the effects of broader factors, like culture and society, on your well-being.
Service Locations
Alberta
Quebec
Ontario
Areas of Specialization
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Panic Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Phobias
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Depression
Dysthymia (Persistent Depressive Disorder)
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Acute Stress Disorder
Adjustment Disorders
Trauma
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)
Betrayal Trauma
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Eating Disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder)
Crisis Intervention
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Marital and Couple Conflicts
Family Dynamics
Interpersonal Relationships
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Job Stress
Career Burnout
Work-Life Balance
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Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation
Interpersonal Relationships
