Our Service Offerings At Driftwood Counselling

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Like the waves calmly flowing toward shore, we guide you in creating a more peaceful life.

Individual & Family Sessions

We will work with you individually to gain awareness, strategies and ultimately work towards your goals.  Sometimes in order to do that we need to work with the family as a whole.  Family and loved ones can be an important part in our journey and you are able to invite them to join us in this work.

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Our mission is to provide flexible support that fits your unique needs while aligning to our core values.

  • Respect

    Helping clients feel heard, understood, and supported.

  • Creativity

    Finding personalized interventions to provide the best care.

  • Authenticity

    Supporting clients to be true to their personality, values and spirit.

  • Dependability

    Providing patient led, evidence based therapeutic interventions.

Our Theoretical Approaches

  • It is a structured and collaborative approach. It uses exposures to confront the things that make you anxious and/or provokes your obsessions. Which allows you to develop healthier coping skills.

  • Do you find yourself skin picking or hair pulling and are concerned about these actions. Using ComB we will work in learning and practice strategies to reduce and ideally eliminate these actions. We will target thoughts, feelings, and sensations that lead to the picking or pulling and incorporate healthier alternatives.

  • Are tics bothering you and starting to negatively impact your daily functioning? We will work on helping you be more aware of tics, train you to use competing behaviour when you feel the urge to tic, and make changes to reduce tics

Other Approaches & Therapies

Trauma-Informed, Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, Sandtray, Harm Reduction, Grief and Loss, Mindfulness.

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What can you expect during a regular session with us?

  • We will focus on getting to know each other and build trust. I will get an understanding of your symptoms and what supports you are looking for. This can take up to three sessions for us to develop a treatment plan.

  • We will be focusing on the principles of ERP, CBIT, or Com-B or take a multi-faceted approach. We will focus on education to ensure you have a better understanding of how you are impacted by your thoughts and actions.

  • When our work is done, we will take time to look back at your progress and all you have learned. This is a chance for us to reflect on the therapy and look forward to the future.

  • Booster sessions are an important part in our work. We will set up a prescheduled appointment to check in and reinforce the progress we made. Follow ups are helpful as things come up and having a touch point can be beneficial.

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Take the first step towards finding peace.

Take the first step towards finding peace.

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We can work together to reduce symptoms and allow you to live a fuller life.