Find a Therapist in London, Ontario.

As a Certified Counsellor I can help improve the quality of your life and relationships by giving you the necessary tools for growth. Counselling can help you understand and change unhealthy behaviour, help you find clarity for direction, assist in working through a crisis, be a strength in time of loss, help you learn better coping skills, strengthen self esteem and confidence, or repair or strengthen relationships. I will partner with you and offer a safe, open place to grow and change and I'll teach you the tools you need to do the work.

I have been providing psychotherapy since 1996. Through psychotherapy, I have been able to help individual, couples and families to address their challenges/problems and achieve their therapy goals. My approach is client-centred, solution-focused, and using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques. Through psychotherapy, I can help you to improve your thinking, feelings and/or behavior.

Nancy's approach to psychotherapy is person-centered and strength-based. She offers a safe space to explore your concerns and support to work through the issues that you need to resolve in order to move forward in your life. Nancy sees you as the expert, and she works with you as a partner on your journey. Nancy is a warm, caring and compassionate woman with over twenty five years experience working with individuals, couples, groups and families. She has worked with children, youth, adults and seniors. She offers services to the LGBTT community, as well as the general population. She works from a health promotion perspective, and addresses systemic forms of discrimination.

Psychotherapy is the use of psychological methods to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in a positive manner. Its aim is to help people understand the thoughts behind feeling anxious or depressed and addressing these thinking patterns. Psychotherapy will help you change behaviors and habits that are limiting you, to experiencing your fullest potential.

My Psychotherapy practice is dedicated to offering women, couples and those involved with WSIB compassionate, flexible and affordable counselling. This is a safe space where you will be heard and understood, where you will not be judged; a place where you can discover inner peace, growth, joy, and begin to heal and recover. My experience working in community agencies, women's shelters and as a Medical Social Worker have provided me with the skills and heart to help you find hope, and increase your coping. Please visit my website for more information at www.MSWtherapist.com.

I've heard a lot of people tell me that they thought "therapy was only for crazy people". It's not. Psychotherapy can keep you from going crazy! Having a trained professional to assist you in making sense of your life can be a very "un-crazy" thing to do. Besides, the process can actually be fun and enjoyable. In additon, I offer body-oriented psychotherapy which integrates the awareness of the body in helping you to manage intense emotions or physical symptoms.

Psychotherapy can provide valuable support when recovering from crisis; when you feel stuck in your life; at a major crossroads; in mid-life change; career and family pressure and stress; suffering burnout; trying cope with with depression and anxiety; needing wisdom to navigate workplace issues or close relationships. Sessions involve a confidential, safe space to talk with an individually tailored combination of practical, emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being interventions. We explore what your psyche is telling you and engage the wisdom it has to offer for guiding you through, in your own way and time. The focus is on gentle, impactful change and personal growth.

I utilize Relational Psychodynamic Therapy in counselling sessions, maintaining an awareness on how my relationship with the client affects her/him and how the client is affecting myself as therapist. These can be very helpful clues to understanding relational patterns in a client's life, making it possible to then explore these patterns and find avenues to create healthy relationships and a balanced self.

My role as your therapist is to assist you to explore, reflect and accept yourself. From the safe haven of therapy you probe what you feel, know and maybe fear. It is an in-depth conversation with me but even more with yourself. Through this you reach new perspectives: awareness, feelings, thoughts, intentions plus better understandings of what has happened in your life. From there you can make changes towards healthier actions - calmer and in a more balanced, assertive position in relation to others and yourself. Such personal learning can certainly be done without a therapist - they just assist. Like hiring any consultant, it should certainly be you who is in charge of this journey.

It has always been my belief that no particular therapy is equally applicable to every client, and so use a variety of methods based on the client's needs. It's my belief that one of the fundamental pieces missing from most approaches to human psychology is that the spiritual aspect is ignored, and so work with clients also combines a spiritual perspective where appropriate and desired. I work with clients on various issues, but have found that mindfulness exercises have a tremendous and positive impact and have used this approach with clients for close to 20 years. I look forward to working with you...

My approach is integrative. I follow the school of thought, prominent in the American Psychological Association, that holds that there are a number of factors involved in successful therapy: establishment of the collaborative therapeutic relationship; enlistment of the autonomous self-healing tendencies of the client; skill of the therapist (listening accurately, understanding client background); understanding of specific approaches for specific presenting issues (e.g. a different approach will be taken to chronic depression than to acute adjustment issues); and general skill and knowledge by the therapist of change principles.

Psychotherapy provides an opportunity to explore the challenges you are facing in a safe, non-judgmental space. As you share your experiences, we will be looking for adaptive and maladaptive patterns of thinking, feeling and/or behaving to move in a more helpful direction. I may ask questions that lead to better understanding of your current struggles and potential solutions. Increasing awareness and understanding of emotions and body sensations may also help to live a more integrated and authentic life.

Are you wondering how come you seem to be repeating the same patterns that get you into trouble over and over again? In your head you would like to move on in life; however, in reality you feel stuck, uncomfortable within your own skin. It is easy for our words to fool others and worst yet, ourselves. Through the use of Bioenergetic Analysis, Adela can guide you into exploring what your BODY is really telling you. Learn to identify genuine needs, emotions and how to express them. No more saying "yes'" when you mean "NO". Freeing energy blocks can open the gate for you to experience life more fully: joyfilled moments, pleasure and be really there for yourself and others when you CHOOSE