CREDENTIALS & MEMBERSHIPS

Ezreena received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Ottawa and her Registered Professional Counselling diploma from Kelowna College of Professional Counselling. Her academic history reflects her keen interest in psychology and has applied it by opening a private practice in Kelowna.  

She is a facilitator of:

            Metapsychology:        Traumatic Incident Reduction (T.I.R.)         Life Stress Reduction (L.S.R.)

She is registered with:

                Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA)          Canadian College of Professional Counsellors & Psychotherapists (CCPCP)           Crime Victims Assistance (CVA)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Ezreena has worked administratively with many diverse populations, including  the Military Police with National Defence Canada,  the Honourable Robert Kaplan on Parliament Hill,  procurement with Supply & Services Canada (Quebec and Alberta), telemarketing for University of Ottawa Alumni and Customer service and sales for BC Tel / Telus. Currently she also is co-owner/ administrator for her family business. Her wide variety of occupational experience has enabled Ezreena to work with an array of personalities and gain valuable skills, which, along with her enthusiasm for helping people, she has amalgamated into her private practice as a psychotherapist and counsellor.

COUNSELLING PROCESS

The initial session, which takes approximately one and half hours, includes a clinical assessment which involves a series of questions that will allow for Ezreena to gain a deeper understanding of what is going on for the client. Each subsequent session runs about 50 minutes. Trauma sessions run longer.

BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH EZREENA

She can help you:

• Clarify the concerns that brought you to counselling
• Reduce emotional distress: anxiety, anger, depression
• Identify your needs
• Find ways to get those needs met
• Examine choices you are faced with
• Evaluate outcome of those choices
• Create specific goals & examine ways to achieve those goals
• Develop plan of action for change: toward psychological and emotional well-being

All the while:

• Encouraging  self-exploration and self-awareness
• Supporting  emotional healing and
• Providing an opportunity to practice new behaviours that will bring new results

WHAT EZREENA HAS TO OFFER

• Attentive listening
• Empathic understanding
• Confidentiality
• New perspective
• Genuineness
• Unconditional acceptance
• Caring warmth
• An opportunity to find meaning in personal struggle

ISSUES THAT EZREENA CAN HELP WITH

• Trauma healing
• Anger resolution
• Stress & anxiety reduction
• Depression & mood improvement
• Grief and bereavement support
• Sexual issues
• Goal setting & achieving
• Inter-personal conflicts
• Relationship challenges
• Personality patterns that can create difficulties
• Core issues
• Self-concept / self worth
• Assessing personal values, basic beliefs and attitudes and how these play a role in our behaviour
• Self-defeating perceptions and assumptions about self and others: how our thoughts and emotions contribute to our behaviour

Using an integrative approach (applying different treatment methods for each concern), and working collaboratively with you, I endeavour to help you work through personal issues and to facilitate the changes that will improve psychological and emotional well-being in order to live a more fulfilling life!

Ezreena Draper Scott                                

Registered Professional Counsellor     Metapsychology Facilitator:  TIR & LSR      Bachelor of Arts degree (psychology)

250.212.5596

ezreenascott@gmail.com