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Individual Therapy Counselling in Vancouver

" As you progress in therapy, you will discover that you no longer need to rely on the destructive, limiting defenses that have kept you alienated from your feelings. You will no longer feel compelled to repeat familiar, self-defeating patterns of behavior, which in turn will open the possibility for continuous change and development in your life. The therapeutic venture, by helping you recognize and gradually take power over the critical inner voice and its antifeeling, antilife prescriptions, offers you a unique opportunity to fulfill your human potentialities." - Robert Firestone

Individuals come to counselling because they are experiencing emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, harassment, addictions, grief, trauma, low self-esteem, guilt, interpersonal problems, stress reactions, and problems in living. The bottom line is that they are feeling conflicted internally and are in emotional pain. Although often they attribute their pain to external factors, what they may not realize is that the deeper source of their pain lies in psychological defenses formed in childhood. The very defenses that help children to survive childhood pain become the problem in adult life by restricting individuals' pursuit of goals and close attachments.

Following Robert Firestone's (see www.glendon.org) depth-cognitive-affective-behavioral approach called Voice Therapy, I use clients' pain as a catalyst to acknowledge their defenses, to confront the negative thought process that regulates the defenses, and to risk pursuing their goals and reaching out for love.

The goal of counselling is to resolve emotional difficulties and to become a healthier self. As a healthier self, one is less conflicted internally, less encumbered by imagined limitations, and more free to pursue one's goals and to tolerate love. To read a clinical case that describes how I work with individuals using Voice Therapy, click on the heading below.

Counselling Clinical Case: Individual Experiencing Depression