Find a Therapist in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Psychotherapy sounds daunting and scary, but really it is simply having a conversation, but a unique one where it is vitally important that you feel completely safe, respected, understood and valued in the counselling office. Psychotherapy involves talking about your life and about yourself and your desire to become your own best self. It involves increasing awareness of one's behaviours and the function of these behaviours. It involves understanding one's relationship with oneself and learning ways to improve one's relationship with oneself. And in doing this, one's level of peace, joy, happiness increases.

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!

Patterns of self-sabotaging behavioural, disorganized thinking and overwhelming emotion make life very difficult. How can we move forward when our bodies seem to betray us and we just need a break from the buzzing anxiety or the numbing of depression? What you may not know is all these symptoms are the imprint of our unfinished business, stuck in the body and just begging to be seen, cared for and accepted. Working with me means looking with curiosity, compassion and an educated-eye at how old wounds of betrayal, abandonment and rejection show up to block living your best life. You are not alone and there is hope.

[I OFFER VIDEO SESSIONS THROUGHOUT ALBERTA AND ONTARIO]. I have been a psychologist since 1986. I have expertise in several approaches. My main approaches include cognitive behaviour therapy, psychodynamic therapy, person-centred therapy, and existential therapy. If you want to see someone with extensive training and experience in psychotherapy, book a time by visiting https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=14249112

Psychotherapy can help you to improve your life in many ways, including improving communication skills, learning conflict resolution, increasing self-awareness, learning coping skills and strategies, changing negative emotions and unhelpful thought patterns, building stronger relationships and treatment of mental health conditions. It is of the utmost importance to find a good fit when looking for a therapist, so I would encourage you to take the time to read through different bios and take any therapist up on their offer for a free consultation.

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 with Peggy provides a supportive environment that allows you to talk openly in a safe environment with someone who is objective, neutral, and nonjudgmental. We will work together to identify and change the thought and behavior patterns that are keeping you from feeling your best. My hope for you is that, by the last session, you will not only have solved the problem that brought you in, but you will have learned new skills so you can better cope with whatever challenges arise in the future. Essentially, it is about learning to be your own therapist.

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.

Are you seeking a safe and confidential space to explore the most important and private issues of life? With a trusted Therapist a client can freely share, no longer needing to pretend one "has it all together". In psychotherapy I have witnessed thousands of moments of new insight, when clients have become more aware how their past, present, and future. The great psychotherapist Carl Jung wrote: “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”