Cheryl Grant, R.S.W, M.S.W.

Registered Social Worker
Virtual Practice, Ottawa, Ontario, K1V 1A3
Phone: 613-355-9300
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Session Fees: $160 per 50 minute session
www.cherylgrantcounselling.ca

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Feeling stuck in repetitive and painful patterns? Are you wondering how to get out of the pain, and into the peace of the life you want to be living? Are you looking for more purpose and meaning in your life?

Difficulties and painful experiences that you encounter during your journey in life can often obscure your connection to your wisdom, intuition, and ability to identify your needs clearly. I help guide you in the process of unpacking and addressing limiting stories and beliefs, so that you can uncover and access that wisdom - that clearer sense of who you are and why you are here - and navigate your way towards the life you want to live.

You may be looking for guidance, but you are the expert on who you are, and what you need.

My Therapeutic Approach:
It is my passion to help people move towards and achieve self-actualization. This is the realization of your full potential, and full development of your abilities and appreciation for life. People are naturally creative and connected to a sense of purpose and meaning, which includes a sense of the sacred. You become disconnected from this innate creativity, and sense of purpose, through a number of factors including trauma, hardship, expectations of family and society, external definitions of success and “the norm”, and experiences of exclusion. These experiences contribute to the suppression of certain characteristics and behaviours, and the development of limiting stories and beliefs.

When you are disconnected from your wisdom and innate sense of who you are, you start to operate out of alignment with what you need for your optimal health and wellness, and what needs to be expressed through you as your contribution to the world. You push past physical and emotional signals that are meant to guide you to this health and wellness and instead experience distress, overwhelm and fatigue, possibly even staying engaged in jobs or relationships that are draining and characterized by conflict.

How can I help you?

With a combination of psychological and spiritual approaches and tools, I help you to identify and overcome limiting patterns and beliefs so that you can realign with your wisdom, inner compass and highest potential- so you can recover who you are, have a sense of meaning and purpose, and move towards the dreams that call to you, towards the life that you can thrive in. With CBT and Narrative Therapy, we discover and identify the stories and limiting beliefs that are responsible for the patterns, relationships and behaviors you either engage in or avoid. With the use of dreamwork and prompts such as tarot, we discover more about these beliefs as well as map a way towards the story you want to be in: the life you want to be living. We cannot transform what we cannot see. It is important to understand what is happening in your inner world that is affecting your outer world, and to draw guidance from the wisdom you hold inside. I also offer guided visualizations and some art and journaling exercises to access non verbal information (often the realm of the Inner Child) and deepen the work.

Specialties: Over 20 years experience in working with children, youth, individuals, couples, and families. Currently specializing in working with youth and adults. I provide helpful parent support, and support with family dynamics and functioning. I can help with the full spectrum of relationship issues- including complex family issues, friendships, and workplace relationships.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT): identify stressful thoughts and beliefs that limit you and heighten anxiety and depression, and develop ways to talk back to and challenge this so you can move forward.
Narrative Therapy: similar to CBT, the focus is on understanding the stories and narratives that you may be unaware of, that are running your life. Uncover the narrative that you want to be in and shift your focus to the new narrative.
Existential distress/confusion: explore and process what drives you, what gives you meaning, better understand your purpose and how to have more of a sense of meaning and contribution in your life.
Dreamwork: work with the subconscious messaging and guidance that presents itself in your dreams, yes, even nightmares. Learn to face certain challenges, and learn more about who you are and why you are here
Shadow work: work to know and better accept and integrate the parts of you that you have locked away over time
Tarot/Art therapy/Guided Visualizations: tools to access deeper, often subconscious and even non-verbal information (often Inner Child based).
Parts of the self: do you sometimes wonder why you seem to be working against yourself? Get to know the different parts of you at play so you can better navigate towards what you want.
Reiki/Mindfulness: better understand how energetic influences affect your overall health and well-being. As I provide virtual services, this looks more like exploring issues related to Chakras (energy centers in the body that relate to personal and environmental issues).

There are many ways to recover a clearer sense of who you are, and become the person you are meant to be. Along with the established mainstream tools and approaches found in traditional therapy, I offer an approach largely inspired by the works of Carl Jung. I have moved more and more towards a spiritual approach, and can certainly assist you in navigating forward, without this lens, upon your preference. If you use words like Universe regularly, navigate by signs and synchronicity (or want to), and are interested in working more with your dreams. I'm your therapist.

Location: Virtual- located in Ottawa and able to provide service throughout the province of Ontario

Contact: (613) 355-9300
cheryl@cherylgrantcounselling.ca

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