About Us
My Approach to Therapy
People have their own wisdom. A deep understanding guiding their lives and to manage the struggles of life. Therapy simply supports the person to find their wisdom and skills.
My work as a therapist is to support a person to know their own wisdom and insights and to enact this understanding into their own life.
With the skills of therapy, we return back to our hopes, develop our skills, abilities and use our internal resources. We come to appreciate our human life with all its wonders and hurts, and marvel at our life
My experience of 30 years as a Therapist
Somehow, 30 years later, I am still a therapist, and enjoying my work as much as ever. The people I have worked with are my greatest teacher. They have allowed me into their hearts, their pains, their joy and their wisdom.
Over my career I have trained in a wide variety of various counselling skill with a focus on a strength-based counselling style. My approach includes applicable skills, combined with a sound understanding to inspire and build confidence in a person's ability to obtain their goals for a better life.
- Trauma and PTSD (Somatic Experiencing training)
- Stress, ongoing worries, anxiety, depression
- Isolation and loneliness
- Couple counselling: rekindling the care of love through communication, emotion attunement, and strenghtening the "we" in relationship
- parenting and blended families.
- Divorce, separation and co-parenting
- Coping with high conflict and narcissist personalities
- Grief and loss from the death of a beloved, marriage break up, moving through the changes of life
- Work conflict struggles such as anxiety, work pressures and interpersonal conflict
- Personal issues: boundaries, self-assertiveness, health and well being, family of origin issues and trauma
- Addiction
- Parenting…the struggles in our modern time
- Anger and aggression
Book a Session
My counselling practise can be face to face at my office in Cowichan Bay.
I have been using telephone counselling for over 10 years and I have found this works for most people.
I use Zoom and WhatsApp regularly.
And at times people have used all three of these modes depending on their time
Accreditation
Master degree with the University of Victoria
Member of BC Association for Clinical Counsellor
Membership # 8675
Fees
120.00 per session (60 minutes)
Couples are 90 minutes (minimum)
Insurance companies such as Blue Cross, Greenshield and Manulife depending on coverage will paid for all or part of the fees.
Call me for a free informal chat to meet and greet.
15 to 30 minutes
Email: waggbill@hotmail.com
Phone: 250 737 3157