Find a Therapist in Bentley, Alberta.

Life can be daunting, challenging, and overwhelming. At Mah's Counselling Services I use a variety of therapies to help cope with these feelings, develop greater understanding of yourself and your relationships, and new skills to enhance your life. If you are struggling and need a space where you can safely work through these struggles call to book an appointment.

Often we know what we need to do differently, it's not that we don't have the wisdom, it's that it can be hard to apply! Doing Psychotherapy with me is a gentle and compassionate process of uncovering and tending to the old wounds and patterns that can be steering our behaviour and leading us astray. This frees up the space to live in the present with mindfulness, and create the future that we dream of!

We often experience emotional wounds. We think we've got over them but the pain can lead us to use unhelpful self-protection. This includes ways of relating to others, addictions, rage and other coping mechanisms that might have helped us in past but don't today. Let me help you change the pattern. Using an understanding of how trauma affects us we can change your patterns so you can have the life you desire.

Psychotherapy is offered to parents and children. Keystone focuses on understanding attachment relationships and helps clients develop an understanding of how attachment impacts both our behavior and our children's behaviors. Solution-focused counseling and cognitive behavioral therapy are utilized to provide practical strategies to meet clients goals.

Psychotherapy is a process of gaining an awareness of one's issues which leads to improving the understanding of one's issues. Following this, the process of psychotherapy is to follow through with some form of therapeutic action to either improve the awareness, increase one's understanding or resolve the issues that one originally came in to psychotherapy for.

Sometimes people feel overwhelmed and need guidance and support in confronting their issues, including (but not limited to) depression, anxiety, couples and relationship issues, trauma, stress, motivation, isolation, self-esteem and suicidal thoughts. During these times, it can be helpful to seek out the support of a psychotherapist with unique expertise in assisting individuals in managing these concerns. Finding the right therapists is not easy, and so we offer a free 20-minute consultation with our team to make sure that you have the right fit *before* you commit to a psychotherapy session with us.

My approach to my work involves the compassionate application of techniques that are designed to provide my clients with the awareness that tends to precede their personal change. Clients will be encouraged to think and feel in a manner that opens up new perspectives that promote personal growth. Clients will be supported in their efforts to make changes in their thoughts, feelings and actions that will sustain the desired change in their life.

Psychotherapy sounds complicated. It does not need to be. It occurs when two people talk it can be effective or ineffective. With a combination of experience, education and practice a therapist can help create a therapeutic encounter that is beneficial and effective for a person. Raue, Goldfried, & Barkham, (1997) highlight how the therapeutic relationship is key to a client progress or engagement in therapy. It is my desire to create a space where this relationship can grow and be beneficial to my clients.

Deborah has a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta and has locations in Lacombe and Red Deer, Alberta . She offers psychotherapy to address a variety of concerns such as trauma, PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, depression, anger, stress, grief, abuse, among other concerns . Please visit www.centralabcounselling.com or call 587-876-2632 for more information.

My work as a psychologist involves forming an intentional relationship with each individual I meet that allows for, and at times opens up, a path towards change. This journey of change and growth enables the integration of balance throughout one's emotional, cognitive, physical, social and spiritual ways of being. Integration in the face of complexity is a sure indication of health, with the many gifts it brings being clarity of mind, states of happiness and harmony, and an overall sense of peace and equanimity.