Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP)™

WELCOME Our Counselling & Somatic Therapy Team comprise of Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCC), Registered Social Worker (RSW), and Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC). In an Integrative Somatic Therapy session, we utilize a range of Body-Centered Therapeutic practices alongside Talk Therapy to ensure that your healing journey is gentle and self-paced supporting you to let go of diffi... Read More

WELCOME

Our Counselling & Somatic Therapy Team comprise of Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCC), Registered Social Worker (RSW), and Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC). In an Integrative Somatic Therapy session, we utilize a range of Body-Centered Therapeutic practices alongside Talk Therapy to ensure that your healing journey is gentle and self-paced supporting you to let go of difficult emotions rather than suppress or intellectualizing them thus, developing a heathier way of connecting and relating to self and others with Clarity and Openness, and Heart.

Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP) allows you to connect to felt sense; deep intuitive experience of body sensations, emotions, movements, and energy. In our 1.5 hrs. sessions, we start with breathing, sensed into your body's movements to determined areas of tension held in the body. We use the wisdom of yoga to relax and ground the body, connect to your internal resources for deep emotional and physiological releases.

For your session, please wear socks and comfortable clothing so that you can stretch and move. We offer pure essential oil for mindfulness practice during the session. Please let us know at beginning of the session if you are sensitive or allergic to essential oils.


Integrative Somatic Breathwork

Trauma leaves an energetic imprints on the body. When we energetically charge the body with breath, we create an opening for deep expressed emotional energy to surface and be released. Using pendulation, titration, and resourcing, Integrative Somatic Breathwork allows you to drop into the depth of pain to access and release stuck emotions that have accumulated in the body over the course of a l... Read More

Trauma leaves an energetic imprints on the body. When we energetically charge the body with breath, we create an opening for deep expressed emotional energy to surface and be released. Using pendulation, titration, and resourcing, Integrative Somatic Breathwork allows you to drop into the depth of pain to access and release stuck emotions that have accumulated in the body over the course of a lifetime.

Breathwork naturally releases emotional and physical pain that honours your capacity to self heal, relief from ailments such as grief, anger, anxiety, addictions, depression, low self-esteem, and/or relationship issues. Our Breathwork sessions will help you to experience a greater sense of peace, clarity in decision-making and feel more connected to your purpose and your spirituality.


Clinical Consultation

This session is offered online as an opportunity for mental health professionals to enhance clinical skills, uphold ethical standards, and aims to improve the best possible care for the clients. Clinical consultation may focus on specific client concerns, interventions, or ethical dilemmas. This session can also provide emotional support for the counsellor to prevent burnout, encourages profes... Read More

This session is offered online as an opportunity for mental health professionals to enhance clinical skills, uphold ethical standards, and aims to improve the best possible care for the clients. Clinical consultation may focus on specific client concerns, interventions, or ethical dilemmas. This session can also provide emotional support for the counsellor to prevent burnout, encourages professional growth & learning.


Counselling & Psychotherapy

Talk Psychotherapy helps you identify the psychological root causes of your problems and challenges to improve behaviours, emotional well-being and healing. Problems that can help with psychotherapy include coping with stressful life events, the impact of trauma, medical illness or loss such as the death of a loved once, and specific mental health challenges such as depression or anxiety. Couns... Read More

Talk Psychotherapy helps you identify the psychological root causes of your problems and challenges to improve behaviours, emotional well-being and healing. Problems that can help with psychotherapy include coping with stressful life events, the impact of trauma, medical illness or loss such as the death of a loved once, and specific mental health challenges such as depression or anxiety. Counselling and Psychotherapy is offered with individuals, family, and couples.


Holistic Family Therapy

Holistic Family Therapy for Couples, Families, and Children.

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with BCACC in private practice. I bring over 16 years of extensive experience in the mental health and personal growth fields. I practice from a trauma-informed lens to provide a warm and welcoming space. I work with adults, groups and facilitate workshops for individuals dealing with trauma, anxiety, low-mood or depression, relationship challenges, grief and loss. I also provide therapy for pain and stress management particularly after an accident or trauma or due to being a first responder. I offer mentoring and intuitive life coaching. I provide counselling in English and Spanish. I use a holistic and integrative approach to counselling that includes mindfulness, breath work, resiliency enhancement and other evidence-based modalities. I have specialized training in Trauma Therapy and Integrative Somatic Therapy (ISTP)™ I facilitate your understanding of the connection between your mind-body-and-emotions in order to help you heal. My role as a therapist is to empower you to take back your life and live it as fully as you can. One of my strongest beliefs is that we all do the best we know how to, moment by moment… because if we knew a better way, that’s what we would have done!

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with BCACC in private practice. I bring over 16 years of ex... Read More

Move + Breathe + Feel + Heal

Through the creation of a safe supported space, you are invited to drop into the depth of pain, access and release stuck emotions, gain insight and understanding with a renewed sense of connections to self and those who cares about you.

I believe true healing comes when we work in tandem with both body and mind Insight gain comes when we are willing to connect to painful memories, experiences, and emotions that can’t be ignored once it is felt. FELT WISDOM is what heals.

Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice allows you to felt wisdom; a deep intuitive experience of body sensations, emotions, movements, breath, and energy. Using a range of Body-Centered Therapeutic Orientations such as Mindfulness, Yoga, Breathwork, Bodywork, Movement, Sound, and Ceremony your journey through pain is gentle and self paced, allowing you to embrace emotions rather than suppress or intellectualize them.

I am the founder of Body Mind Soul Healing Centre & Creator of Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP). I bring over 25 years of experience and insight in healing of trauma into my clinical practice, training, and mentorship.  Along with my education in Master of Counselling Psychology, my training background also includes Therapeutic Yoga, Breathwork, Bodywork, Expressive Arts, Hakomi & Satire Transformational Systemic Therapy.

Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice was developed from research and from an intuitive knowing of the need to integrate Body-Oriented Therapy along side Talk Therapy to fully support the whole person; Body, Mind, & Soul. Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice integrates practices in:

Mindfulness, Breathwork & Movement, Restorative Yoga, Bodywork, Sound, Ceremony, Somatic Processing & Integration designed to enhance the body’s own capacity to heal and reclaim HOPE.

I guide individuals to regain control of the present by overcoming emotional and physical pain through mind-body-emotion self-regulation for long-term healing and wellness.

Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice supports the body’s natural process of releasing self-restricting patterns from body-stored trauma; opening a path for individuals to feel joy, peace, self-compassion and love.

Move + Breathe + Feel + Heal Through the creation of a safe supported space, you are invited to ... Read More

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