Life can become overwhelming. Many people seek counselling when stress, anxiety, low mood, grief, trauma, or relationship struggles begin affecting their sense of self, well-being, and enjoyment of daily life. If you’re feeling stuck or disconnected, reaching out is the first step toward change.
Compassionate Support from an Experienced Therapist
Robin, the therapist behind A Path of Heart Counselling Services, has been supporting individuals since completing her Master’s degree in 2008. She continues to pursue ongoing professional development and supervision and has recently completed five years of advanced training in Somatic Experiencing Therapy.
Somatic Experiencing is a body-based, trauma-informed approach that is widely recognized for its effectiveness in addressing:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Anger and emotional dysregulation
- Grief and loss
- Trauma, including overwhelming or distressing life events
Using Somatic Experiencing Therapy, Robin can help you understand what is happening in your body and gain control over your emotions and destructive behaviours.
Somatic Experiencing Therapy has been proven to help people learn self-regulation skills and to improve their overall quality of life and relationships. Some of the benefits include:
- Reduced feelings of anxiety, stress, overwhelm and/or panic attacks.
- Development of skills to shift out of states of depression, heaviness and low energy
- Gain control of anger and angry outbursts and release and release and let go of pent up anger or rage from the past.
- Improved ability to control emotional and psychological states, ability to handle stress and/or difficult experiences.
- Enhanced inner resources and resilience.
- Decreased PTSD symptoms.
- Learn how to take care of yourself better, and to have better coping skills and self regulation skills.
- Increased self esteem and reduction in social anxiety.
- Feel more relaxed, content, grounded and safe.
- Enjoy living in the moment more, and feel more joy.
- Benefits in relationships- develop better boundaries; learn how to speak up and to stand up for you by saying what you need and what you will not tolerate.
Therapy starts by building safety and assessing what issues you struggle with and then Robin works with you to develop goals for therapy.
After safety is built, Robin will then help you to develop your own inner resources and to develop and expand within yourself the person that you want to become.
You will quickly learn how to shift and release yourself from the stuck, heavy, low energy depressive states and to also learn self regulation skills to settle yourself from high states of stress, anxiety, anger or overwhelm.
After building more capacity and developing a lot of tools for self-regulation you can then choose to continue a deeper therapy to access and to process past trauma in a slow and safe way.
What You Can Expect to Change
Through counselling, many people begin to notice that they:
- Feel less anxious, overwhelmed, angry, or low
- Understand their emotions better and feel more in control
- Stop repeating old patterns that keep them stuck
- Have more tools to calm their body and settle stress
- Start healing the impact of past experiences or trauma
- Feel more confident in who they are
- Improve communication and boundaries in relationships
- Experience more ease, presence, and enjoyment in daily life
Counselling helps create space for you to feel better, understand yourself more deeply, and move toward the kind of life you want to live.
