https://www.wholeselfcounselling.ca/home daily 1.0 2025-10-08 https://www.wholeselfcounselling.ca/about-counsellor-susie daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e752adbce557718d50061e/a984d19b-a6ba-4ce1-ae05-cd706c884575/Susie+profile+photo+square.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e752adbce557718d50061e/4b595e9a-cac6-4a02-8150-e4ddf230d794/Susie+full+body+fun+photo+2+cropped.jpg https://www.wholeselfcounselling.ca/counsellor-contact daily 0.75 2025-04-16 https://www.wholeselfcounselling.ca/counselling-therapy-approach daily 0.75 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e752adbce557718d50061e/1642562781547-T8D91RAGSU63BTYFLQDU/unsplash-image-e0VnBbc1mFk.jpg Approach - Light to guide your way. We believe that everyone deserves support and unconditional positive regard on our journey. Our approach is based on deep attunement with our clients; a solid belief in their innocence, and inner wisdom; and absolute faith in their ability to experience healing in their painful areas. Sessions will often include an experiential component - which means that we won’t just talk about what is bothering you, we will explore it, and work on transforming stuck emotions and believes by stepping into mind-body experiential work. We will move at a pace that works for you, and your nervous system. Most of us have imbalance in our nervous system, which affects not just the way our body feels, but also directs our thoughts and our actions. Slowing down, and bringing awareness to our body can start to bring balance to our system, and allow greater agency over our thoughts. We will offer you some straight forward therapeutic exercises to begin the process of befriending your body. Additionally, some simple, powerful, science based tools we are able to offer, can allow for deep shifting of your stuck nervous system state. Think of this as recalibrating the unconscious alarm system of your body! We will work together to heal the impact of trauma - big trauma’s, or the “little t” trauma’s that are more insidious, yet create great pain. When appropriate we will explore your family system, and your roots. Who we are in the present is developed from where we have been and what we’ve experienced in the past. It subconsciously informs our behaviors and patterns within relationships. We’ll bring a compassionate awareness to your family system to help figure out how and why you have the patterns of behavior that you do. We’ll celebrate what works for you, and bring awareness and take steps to shift what doesn’t work for you. We will draw from a number of modalities, and tailor your sessions to fit you, and your goals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e752adbce557718d50061e/1643262660482-547CGQYAQW7RN85UPSE1/unsplash-image-sgfU7G0JIbU.jpg Approach https://www.wholeselfcounselling.ca/counselling-therapeutic-tools daily 0.75 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e752adbce557718d50061e/1642564207022-ZHKNDVQYPOZNOTWXOSYB/unsplash-image-R5BW2qgV5I8.jpg Tools - Brainspotting. Freedom from stuck emotions, images, and trauma effects. Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neuro-physiological sources of emotional and physical pain, and unhealthy coping mechanisms associated with PTSD, or other emotional issues. It allows the individual to channel their own internal wisdom/knowledge they possess to transform debilitating traumatic memories and the negative beliefs they feel in relation to the incident(s) - whether remembered or not. The deepest areas of your brain have the ability to heal the effects from painful experiences of the past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e752adbce557718d50061e/1642564547682-JBHUJL8VO2SEBJNRNUME/unsplash-image-3DR1XzQfOfs.jpg Tools - Somatic Therapy. Our bodies have a natural, biological response to the world that we live in. It gets programed to respond in certain ways, based on our past experience, the experiences of our parents and ancestors, and the environments in which we grew. Most of us react moment to moment in life, driven by the often unconscious message of our body. Many of us get stuck in responses that are no longer helpful to us and our current situations. Most of us don’t know the importance of, or the how to of learning what message our body is trying to give us. Through slowing down and becoming more aware of our body, we are able to develop greater understanding and agency for ourselves. As we step into listening to ourselves, and responding with compassion, we learn to trust ourselves. We become able to access the resources that we have within. We can become more resilient, and more at ease within ourselves. This slowing down is very beneficial for all of us, and can be especially useful when we have a past of trauma, or long periods of stress. In order to release stress and trauma, we want to have access to resource, and release at a rate that will not cause additional harm to ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61e752adbce557718d50061e/1642624735750-8RIVDX99BNHXHDY89K8G/unsplash-image-cx8st-6cyLs.jpg Tools - Safe and Sound Protocol. Nourish and awaken the nervous system. Feel better. Think better. Connect better. In short, this is an auditory intervention that is usually 5 hours long, done gradually over 2 or more weeks. It can have transformative effects for individuals by allowing their nervous system to shift from a shut down, or highly sympathetic state, into a more grounded, and socially engaged state. Excellent for children or adults. HOW DOES IT WORK? The SSP uses the auditory system as a portal to the vagus complex, which controls our physiological state. Once physiological state is regulated, we can accelerate or enhance subsequent therapy. Based on Dr. Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, the program is derived from nearly four decades of research on the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and social-emotional processes. It is designed to stimulate nervous system regulation by exercising and systematically challenging the auditory system with specifically processed music. The music trains the auditory pathways by focusing on the frequency envelope of human speech. As the client learns to process these speech-related frequencies, they improve the functioning of two cranial nerves that are important for promoting overall social behavior. Cranial Nerve VII (Facial Nerve) helps clients focus on human voice and tune out irrelevant frequencies. Cranial Nerve X (Vagus Nerve) enables self-soothing and autonomic regulation. Following successful completion of the intervention, individuals will be better able to focus in school, therapy, and everyday life and experience a calmed emotional and physiological state. This is based on studies that suggest that skills such as attention, state regulation and the ability to engage socially will be enhanced. 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