Clinical Counselling
* PLEASE NOTE that Counselling is Patient Pay service. We do not Direct Bill for Counselling.
*July 28, 2020
Valerie is now accepting new patients 13 years of age & older for both telehealth & in-clinic appointments
* All patients are required to provide a valid credit card # at the time of booking
Michele Francis, RCC, MA, BA,
Counsellor
You are important and what you have to say matters! Taking the first step to looking for counselling tells me your mental and emotional wellbeing matters to you. You are not willing to sit by and let challenges control you; instead, you are a fighter, a survivor, a resilient human being wanting better for yourself. Working through challenges (be it trauma, depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, stress, or addiction, to name a few) you will be supported and encouraged in a non-pathologizing, anti-oppressive environment to create deep insight regarding the connections between past and present experiences.
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While I subscribe to a variety of therapeutic approaches, I mainly work from an Adlerian (constructivist), Solution-Focused, Cognitive, a Feminist focused and a Narrative (constructivist) lens. I take a trauma informed, multicultural approach to counselling. Understanding that humans face a variety of socio-structural challenges that further compound issues.
It is important that you feel supported, heard and connected to the counsellor you will work with. To better understand if I will be the best fit for you, please take the time to look at the services I offer, and read more about me and my approach to counselling.
What is Counselling?
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Counselling is a relationship between a psychotherapist and an individual or couple to help the individual/couple access their own strengths and resources and learn new insights or skills that will help them deal with life challenges. Whether life is overwhelming, lost its joy and meaning, you’re experiencing grief or loss, a strained relationship, live with chronic illness or pain, or had a traumatic experience, counselling helps.
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Counselling is a valuable investment in your personal growth, well being,and relationship health and can help you live your life with greater healing and wholeness.
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Counselling can help:
ï‚· Abuse * Anger * Anxiety * Burn Out * Depression * Chronic illness
ï‚· * Chronic pain *ï‚· Couples * Grief and loss * Individuals * Life Transitions
ï‚· Panic * Post Traumatic Stress * Relationship Issues * Stress *
ï‚· * Self Esteem and Self Worth * Trauma
What is Counselling?
​
Counselling is a relationship between a psychotherapist and an individual or couple to help the individual/couple access their own strengths and resources and learn new insights or skills that will help them deal with life challenges. Whether life is overwhelming, lost its joy and meaning, you’re experiencing grief or loss, a strained relationship, live with chronic illness or pain, or had a traumatic experience, counselling helps.
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Counselling is a valuable investment in your personal growth, well being, and relationship health and can help you live your life with greater healing and wholeness.
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Counselling can help:
ï‚· * Abuse * Anger * Anxiety * Burn Out * Depression * Chronic pain
ï‚· * Chronic illness *ï‚· Couples * Grief and loss * Individuals
* Life Transitions * Panic * Post Traumatic Stress
* Relationship Issues * Stress * Trauma
* Self Esteem/Self Worth
We are a private pay clinic and are unable to direct bill to insurance companies for Clinical Counselling treatments