Have you ever just needed to talk to someone?
If you need a set of ears and a fine mind to help you through your difficulties, speaking to a clinical counselor can help you find your way out of your problems and back into a more positive mindset.
The role of the counselor is to provide compassionate support and a gently challenging environment for you to address your concerns and discover your innate capacity to heal and change.
Finding your relationship challenging? Our registered counselor can help you and your partner speak about what is going on in an open and effective way. Don’t underestimate the power of language, it creates the fabric of our lives and learning to speak and listen in an effective, conscious way can smooth out many misunderstandings.
What types of issues can be addressed?
• 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
Counselling can help you gain awareness and insight into your life and help you develop methods to solve, cope with, and/or prevent future difficulties. It can help you build new skills, create new healthy patterns in your life and connect with yourself and others in a more meaningful way.
Christen has provided clinical counselling to children, parents, adults, couples and families as a professional Social Worker in British Columbia (BC) for over 23 years. She has spent most of her career working in healthcare (perinatal, pediatric and adult) and is interested in helping adolescents through to adults live to their potential.
Originally from Toronto, Christen studied psychology (BA) at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She then completed a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree in balmier Victoria, BC. Christen completed her Masters in Social Work (MSW) in Vancouver at the University of BC; her research explored the experiences of couples experiencing infertility. She is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) in good standing in the Province of BC. She is also a member of the BC Association of Social Workers. The Social Workers Code of Ethics guides her practice. Christen provides clinical field supervision (Community Mental Health) to Masters students in schools of Social Work from Universities across the country.
Much of her work has involved supporting people in times of crisis, change, loss and life transitions. She is particularly interested in working with couples and individuals who are undergoing both traditional and alternative fertility treatments in their quest to create family. Christen is also interested in supporting new and seasoned families in their everyday lives. She is a skilled mediator of conflict and can facilitate communications between couples and within families.
Christen has also worked to help people cope with depression, anxiety and both acute and chronic health conditions. Christen will also use Bio-Psychosocial assessment skills including referrals for appropriate follow up and treatment where needed.
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