Kristen Bailey Counselling, MA, RCC

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It is not always an easy decision to make changes and reach out for support, but you have made it this far. You may be struggling with relationships and behavioural patterns that are no longer serving you and/or unprocessed pain and trauma. In my practice I am passionate about helping people with problems that are arising in the now (the things pushing you into wanting to change) with processing of the difficult life experiences that have contributed to where you are at. Therapy can feel like a massive commitment, but I have truly seen and experienced how having the space to open up, reflect and be compassionately challenged toward where you have identified you need to go can be so transformative.
 
We all experience pain that stems from the parts of ourselves or the things we have gone through that have created immense shame. It is important to me to be able to provide the space where a person can feel safe enough to explore and share these parts of themselves and learn to bring and feel compassion to these parts and move forward. One of my favourite sayings is around how many of us go to therapy or some form of treatment to feel better, but ironically it is more about feeling better. This may seem unappealing, but it speaks to how we all are looking for ways to avoid pain and suffering ( with numbing, distractions, acting out etc), which lead to feeling disconnected and more pain and suffering. Effective therapy helps us to be able to tolerate more feelings so we are less dominated by our urges and behaviours (many of which we may have developed in childhood) to avoid or act out in some way.
 
I have seen so often in my practice (and with my own struggles) how people often live in a state of imposter syndrome, feeling like somehow everyone else has gotten it figured out, but you cannot get there. My practice is geared toward supporting people to have a more accepting and peaceful relationship with themselves through understanding, compassion, gaining clarity about what is important to the individual and building useful skills to manage difficult thoughts and feelings.
 
My therapeutic philosophy combines Humanistic (Person Centered and Existential) with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Compassion Focused Therapy. I believe in providing an empathetic and unconditionally supportive space that allows for processing and linking what has happened in the past to the present to support shame reduction and empathy toward one’s self with practical psychological tools that people can take with them moving forward and have agency in their recovery. 

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Vancouver BC

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