CLINICAL COUNSELLING
What is Clinical Counselling?
Clinical Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to help the client with a difficulty they are having. Counselling can help clients improve their mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. Finding a counsellor who you feel you can build a comfortable, trusting, and open relationship with is important, as you may bring concerns to counselling that can be difficult to talk about. The role of the counsellor is to provide a compassionate, non-judgemental, supportive, and gently challenging environment for you to address your concerns and discover your innate capacity to heal and change.
What types of issues might be addressed?
Counselling can address many areas of difficulty. Some types of concerns that you might bring to counselling include:
- Reproductive Mental Health (including Infertility, Miscarriage, Pre-Conception, Conception, Pregnancy, Fertility Treatment Cycles, Post-Partum Depression, and Adjustment to Parenthood)
- Parenting Support and Concerns
- Marriage/Relationship Problems
- Family-of-Origin Issues
- Stress Management
- Anxiety and Panic
- Depression
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma
- Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
- Life Transitions (including Career Change, Relocation, Children Leaving Home, Menopause, Retirement, and Aging)
- Acute or Chronic Illness and Pain
- Weight Management
- Smoking Cessation
- Addictive Behaviours
How might you benefit from counselling?
Counselling can help you gain awareness and insight into your concerns, and help you develop ways to solve, cope with, and/or prevent those difficulties. Counselling can help you understand and connect with yourself and others in a meaningful way. It can help you build new skills and create new healthy patterns in your life.
What education/training does a Counsellor have?
Counsellors are committed to high ethical and professional standards of care for their clients. They of have a minimum education level of a Masters Degree in a relevant field (including Counselling or Clinical Psychology, Clinical Social Work, Child and Youth Care, or Marital and Family Counselling). They participate in extensive training regarding techniques and theories of counselling, as well as in creating an effective therapeutic environment for clients. Specific counsellors will have different therapeutic approaches and areas of expertise.
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