Personal Bio

Liesel has a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and a Diploma for Professional Counselling. She is a Registered Professional Counsellor, a member in good standing with the Canadian Professional Counsellor’s Association. She is currently working towards attaining the designation of Master Practitioner in Counselling Psychology.

Liesel possesses an inborn ability of building a therapeutic alliance with people. She never fails to be compassionate, genuine, empathetic, warm, supportive, non-judgmental and empowering to people in general most especially to those who are reaching out for help. In her private practice, she sees clients in her own home office. However, Liesel goes beyond the typical services counselors offer by extending her services to the convenience of her clients’ homes by clients’ choice. Also, she goes an extra mile to do follow up calls on her clients because she firmly believes on the importance of follow ups. This exemplifies her genuineness in her concern for the welfare of her clients.

Although Liesel’s therapeutic approach is geared towards the direction of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, she would define her general approach as eclectic. She takes all the different approaches into consideration and develops an approach that the client is responding to most effectively. This way, she is with the client as opposed to having her own personal agenda. Therefore, Liesel’s approach is tailored to each individual client.

Her commitment to you, as a client, is to uncover the underlying causes of your personal issues and collaborate with you to come up with constructive changes that would work for you to make a substantive difference in your life. Liesel’s goals for clients are to help you manage your problems in living more effectively and develop unused resources and missed opportunities more fully and become more efficient at helping yourself in your everyday life.

Liesel has been married for 25 years and have two grown up daughters and a teen-age son. She currently provides her services in the greater Ottawa area. For clients in any other parts of the world, Liesel provides e-counselling via internet and telephone.

Please contact Liesel to book your free initial session.