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Empower Counselling Services Winnipeg

I often use EMDR alongside Talk Therapy for help in areas such as trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD, anxiety, self esteem, and more.

Perhaps you're visiting today because you are experiencing something that you've found difficult to navigate. Or perhaps you're simply looking to grow personally or professionally. Regardless of what brought you here, I'm so glad you're here today.

To help you get a sense about who I am and what it might be like to work with me, I will share a big about me.

About Me

Together with my partner Liona Kehler, I am co-founder and co-owner of Empower Counselling Services Winnipeg. My vision as a therapist and co-owner of our practice is to create a space where people like you can experience positive change and feel empowered, valued, and respected. A space where you can feel safe to embark on an empowering journey of healing and growth, perhaps even beyond what you've previously imagined possible for your life.

My Work Experience

I've been working in counselling and related fields for over a decade. During this time I’ve had the amazing privilege of walking with many adult individuals through some of the most difficult challenges and hardships of their lives.

My work with my clients gives me tremendous amounts of joy, and I get super energized when I see my clients heal, grow, achieve their goals, reach higher potentials, and experience positive change that they had previously believed impossible.

My Client Demographics

I work with adult individuals in Winnipeg, and more broadly Manitoba, offering sessions via in-person and virtual formats.

My Areas of Therapy

Therapy for Trauma and PTSD
EMDR Therapy
Therapy for Anxiety
LGBTQ+ Allied Therapy
Therapy for Adult Individuals
EMDR Therapy for Negative Self Beliefs/Esteem

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My Space

Your life, your goals: I believe adults set their own life and health goals. While I may gently challenge and encourage you towards healing and making the positive changes you've been desiring, I respect how far you wish to go with therapy. My goal is to work towards your empowerment and your goals.

I work hard to create a space in therapy that feels safe and comfortable. I like to use some humour and make our time together as enjoyable and as human as possible.

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Working Towards Positive Change

Do you often feel like you are not seen, heard, and understood, or like nobody really gets you? Like, when you share about something or about yourself (be it in-person or on social media), people don't ask you curious followup questions? They are quiet while you speak but when you pause, they simply shift the focus back to themselves as though they didn't even hear what you just said. It's hard to heal, grow, and work towards positive change in your life when you feel unheard, alone, and unknown.

I know from many years of experience that when my clients feel truly seen, heard, and understood, they feel safe, empowered, motivated, and energized to do the hard work of changing, growing, and working towards positive change.

What we do in therapy (e.g. techniques and approaches to therapy) is certainly very important to help you achieve your therapy goals, but effective therapy always starts with helping you feel safe, seen, heard, and understood, without the fear of judgment. You deserve a space where what you say will land on genuinely interested, inquisitive, empathetic, supportive ears.

I often use EMDR therapy alongside with talk therapy to help my clients achieve their therapy goals. My areas include PTSD and trauma, C-PTSD, anxiety, self esteem, relationships, grief and complex trauma, and LGBTQ+ affirming therapy. See more below.

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My Beliefs About Change

I believe a single step of courage today can often unlock previously unimagined potential and positive change for tomorrow.

I believe it takes great courage to change, particularly when life has been quite tough for you. Most change has the potential to be uncomfortable, and yet, change that comes from within is often also powerfully and gorgeously unstoppable. Change is the essence of being alive. Positive change leads to unimagined potential tomorrow.

I believe change is easiest when we're accompanied by a safe person by our side. Because why not. If the majority of our lasting trauma results from relationships that were supposed to be safe for us, then healing at the deepest levels can often also only happen in the company of another [this time safe] human. A therapist can often be this safe human company. You should never have to walk it alone.

I believe courage and resilience are close companions. Courageous steps often lead to resilience, and resilience makes it easier to take courageous steps in the future.

I believe that, with warm and compassionate therapeutic support, clients find ways to tap into their resilience and courage and can overcome very difficult challenges and achieve previously unimagined potential and positive change.

My Personal Experience with Therapy

I understand from personal experience that asking for help can be hard. It was my own experience with getting professional help that led me to become a therapist myself. Reaching out for professional help to my therapist is one of the best investments I've made for my personal and professional becoming.

My Approach to Therapy

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