Planting the Seeds of Healing and Growth
Life is not a straightforward path, nor is it an easy one, it is filled with many twists and turns and ups and downs. At each point, whether it is one that has us rising or falling, there is change to navigate, and opportunities to harness our own personal strengths to help us excel and live our best lives possible.
You are your own best expert on your life.
My job, to empower and guide you to find solutions that are best for you and your circumstances, without judgement. It is not about what I believe to be right or wrong, but what you feel is most right for you to live your most authentic and happy life, while being mindful of the impacts of your decisions.
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Have you ever stopped to think about all the things that impact your life and serve as barriers to you living your best life possible? Anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, low self-confidence, imposter syndrome, shame, guilt, anger, communication issues, mood dysregulation, lack of boundaries, lack of self-respect, inauthenticity, or perhaps just losing sight of who you are… there are thousands of issues that can hold us back from living our life to its fullest potential and in a way that has us feeling fulfilled and content. Creating your best life requires honesty, openness with yourself, the willingness to learn, and commitment to personal growth. This can be challenging and takes courage, patience, persistence, and practice, and should be done with self-compassion and support. There is a reason why you feel the way you do, and I can guide you to figure that out, help you to notice your patterns, support you in determining what is working for you and what isn’t, and help you to explore the changes that will solidify and strengthen the foundation of you.
Embrace your best self TODAY!
Life transitions are any changes or adjustments that impact your life and can feel chaotic and scary, whether they are chosen or imposed. These transitions can include contemplating or beginning a new career, marriage/relationship, divorce, retirement, becoming a new parent, or learning how to move on after losing a loved one. The list is endless. Whether these transitions are positive or negative, they typically come with increased stress as we learn to navigate our new circumstances. Having an unbiased, empathetic, and trained ear can help turn those choppy waters into smoother sailing and navigation.
Navigate Life From Chaos to Calm
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Trauma is not an external event. It is the emotional distress that occurs within us in response to an external event or events, and the experience of it will be different for each person. In other words, what one person experiences as trauma may not cause any distress for another. What one person finds traumatic may not feel traumatic to someone else, and there should be no shame in that. How someone experiences an event or situation depends on many factors, such as support, coping skills and style, adaptability, mental flexibility, mindset, and environment—many of which can be worked with and changed to alleviate some of the emotional distress being experienced. No one should have to do this work alone, and having someone who is wholeheartedly empathetic, trauma-informed, and completely non-judgmental to walk alongside you can support you in uncovering and addressing unresolved feelings that may be keeping you stuck.
Personalized Support for Emotional Healing
Grief is the emotional reaction to a significant loss. Although the loss of a loved one is what most of us associate with grief, it can occur around any significant loss—the loss of a job, a house, a marriage, a friendship, an important object, or a particular situation. It is the loss of what once was, and it can cause significant overwhelm. Grief shows up differently in each person it inhabits, which can feel confusing, exhausting, and emotionally draining, affecting your day-to-day functioning. When we don’t process it, grief can lead to complicated or prolonged grief and even weaken our immune systems. As a trained professional, I can help you find healthy ways to cope with your feelings, develop methods and strategies to move forward with your life, and provide a sacred and non-judgmental space in which to freely share your thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
Navigate Grief Through Support and Strategies for Healing, TODAY
The news of a terminal illness can overwhelm you like a tsunami wave and shake you to your very core. Whether you are the one who has been diagnosed, or a family member, friend, acquaintance, or co-worker of the person diagnosed, this news can bring on overwhelming sadness, disbelief, shock, fear, or helplessness, and each person will respond to it in their own way. It can also come with differences in opinions on how it should be handled and may even involve a period of denial.
For the person who has been diagnosed, the focus might be on coming to terms with their diagnosis, asking questions and advocating for themselves, arranging the care they need, spending time with friends and family, taking care of unfinished business, putting their affairs in order, and figuring out how to spend their remaining time in the most meaningful way possible. For those around them, the focus might be on how to support their loved one while still living their own life and taking care of themselves, which can come with much stress and guilt. Regardless of your role, there will be a multitude of emotions, thoughts, feelings, and opinions to sift through, and I can help you do that as both a professional and someone who has gone through this process myself.
Navigate the Emotional Storm of Terminal Illness Through Professional and Personal Support, TODAY
As a woman who has gone through divorce herself, I know the toll it can take, the areas of life it encompasses, and the self-doubt it can cause, but I also know the peace that can be on the other side.
Whether you are in the early stages of contemplation or already firm within its storm of chaos, divorce can have a huge impact on your emotional, psychological, and physical health. It can make you question yourself and your intentions, and bring on difficult feelings such as guilt, worthlessness, anxiety, grief, and fear. The overwhelm can make it difficult to make decisions and concentrate at a time when this is needed most.
As a counseling therapist, ex-banker, and someone who has worked through this process myself, I can offer you guidance to keep the tasks of divorce feeling more manageable, help with healthy communication, and guide you in building a new and meaningful life as you move forward.
Maintaining Peace and Strength Through Divorce
Adoption is a beautiful thing that can bring much joy to a family. It can give people experiencing fertility issues the chance to be parents and create a lifetime of opportunity for a child whose birth parents did not feel they could give them the life they deserved. However, adoption can also come with many confusing feelings for an adopted child, affecting their day-to-day life and hindering their ability to form healthy relationships. It can be confusing to feel grateful for the life we have yet still feel a pull toward knowing our biological family.
Adoption can also come with feelings of grief and loss, shame and guilt, unworthiness and unwantedness, affect our self-esteem, create attachment issues and other mental health challenges, and cause us to struggle with feelings of abandonment and rejection. These are all things that can sabotage future relationships if not worked through.
As an adoptee and 60s Scoop survivor, I have walked this path myself. Although no two experiences are the same, it can be helpful to work with someone who is not only trained to deal with these issues but also understands the journey firsthand.
Embracing Adoption, start TODAY
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No two people are the same, therefore no treatment plan or modality will work for everyone. With this in mind, I have been trained in and continue receiving training in many different modalities such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Compassion Focussed Therapy, Critical Incident Debriefing, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Emotionally Focussed Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, Existential Therapy, Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Person Centered Therapy, Strength Based Therapy, and Trauma Focused Therapy.
What every client can be assured of is that they will be treated with the upmost respect, without judgement, and that the modalities pulled from will be dependent on their own uniqueness, as well as the uniqueness of their situation.
Lisa Wilder