ABOUT DEBBIE
My name is Debbie Welsh, Debbie has been counselling for over 15 years. Debbie's experience has been predominantly in residential treatment, hospital, and community settings. Debbie has worked as a mental health and substance use clinician in these settings and has worked in private practice with an eclectic counselling approach. In private practice Debbie works with individuals, couple's, youth, families and specializes in mental health (Anxiety/depression) and substance use, trauma, grief, life transitioning, work related issues, stress, communication, planning, social isolation/loneliness, abuse, and any life challenges as they show up in one's life. Debbie would like to support the client in becoming the best version of themselves and have a greater sense of self-fulfillment and mastery over their lives.
COUPLE'S THERAPY
Debbie would like to assist you with deepening your relationship with your partner.
Are you having the same fight over and over again? Are you continually falling into the same patterns day after day? Would you like to learn how to break your current cycle and re-establish a deeper connection to your partner again? If so, Debbie provides emotionally focused couple's therapy - a highly proven technique that is successful for helping clients to learn new cycles of being (dancing) together in relationship.
MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE
Debbie offers mental health and substance use healing through the use of motivational interviewing, trauma informed practice, solution focused and cognitive behavioral therapy. Debbie also teaches mindfulness strategies to help with managing anxiety, urges and cravings to help with the sobriety and relapse prevention process.
TRAUMA THERAPY
Debbie recommends EMDR (eye movement, desensitization and reprocessing) as a highly successful therapeutic technique for treating trauma, complex trauma and PTSD. EMDR also assists depression and anxiety. EMDR is the antibiotic treatment that assists with the brain with the healing and to help remove trauma from the nervous system allowing for re-balancing and deeper healing.
Benefits of Counseling
- Feel more confident within yourself
- Feel more at peace, more comfortable, more secure within yourself and more safe and stable in the world
- Experience stress reduction, feel more inner peace and enjoy better quality of life
- Feel more joyful, successful and connected to yourself and others
- Experience a more integrated life and a greater sense of self fulfillment and self mastery
- Be able to identify your goals, attain your goals and experience a better direction in your life
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Commitment Statement
As a professional counselor Debbie is committed to providing a safe environment that is supportive, accepting, nurturing and confidential. Debbie recognizes that you are your own expert and that the answers you are looking for reside within you. With the right support and direction Debbie knows you will discover what you are searching for. Most importantly, Debbie wants you to know that you are worth the investment. As you experience a more integrated life you will come to discover a greater sense of self-fulfillment and self mastery over your own life.
Credentials:
Debbie is a registered social worker who has always worked as a counselor in clinical practice. Debbie's registration number is (#09253). Debbie earned her Bachelor of Social Work Degree (BSW) in 2005 at the Okanagan University College in Kelowna, BC and her Master's Degree in Social Work in 2010 at the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, BC. 
Debbie Welsh Reaches
Chilliwack BC