Bryce Lechelt, BTh, MAMFT

Therapy is a support, and we all have other various supports in our lives.  At times we face challenges where we want help, whether it’s rock climbing, building a home, raising children, or thinking about life changing decisions.  We’ve perhaps watched someone build a house by themselves on YouTube, but even when they do it by themselves, they use all kinds of buttresses and structures to support things while they get the home to the point where it holds itself together without those supports.  Therapists work themselves out of a job because we want to see people grow and succeed, gaining the tools and confidence to thrive in the challenges of life.

In therapy, I draw from approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and Narrative Therapy.  There are many different types of therapy, more than can be practiced by any one therapist; what matters most is your connection to the therapist. Like any therapist, we’re always integrating new information and technique. This also means that every therapist is going to be different even if they claim to use the same techniques. A therapist is the tool, and we’re shaped by all our life’s experiences, so finding a good fit with one is important. Generally, with training based around human relationships, you’ll find me steering in that direction more often and less often in the realm of the somatic where I have less training. 

You’ll find me supportive, creative, calming, client-led, non-directive, and most of all -safe, so you feel comfortable seeking answers and finding solutions to things not regularly spoken about. Therapists are willing to go as deep as you want and feel comfortable. There is no subject in the human experience we can’t speak about, from sex to faith to resentments to shame.  We want to talk about what you want to talk about, work on the areas you want to, though we might make suggestions around things you didn’t think about yet. And that is the beauty of therapy, often (myself included) we are unaware of things that are part of the issue, or don’t see the connections to different aspects of our lives. 

As mentioned in other places on my Theravive profile, I, at Lifetalk counselling, operate on a sliding scale from 30-120 a session and it’s based on monthly family income. For those outside of our County (Newell, Alberta) the session fee starts at 80 dollars because of requirements from our subsidizations, we are also a non-profit Christian organization.