Services for individual adults in Bowmanville, Port Hope + throughout Ontario
You might be asking yourself, do you need therapy?
Are you just getting by? Feeling stuck? Overwhelmed? Have you been thinking about therapy for a while? Pushing it off thinking you are ok, until you're not. You're not over-reacting. You're responding to something real.
Whatever you are feeling as a result of some change in your life, it makes total sense.
I work from a foundation of self-kindness and respect for your authentic values. Accepting who you are, we will go at your pace. No pressure, no overwhelm, no filters, no judgement. Just you being real. I take an integrative, holistic, collaborative and trauma-informed approach, weaving together talk therapy, creativity, practicality and experiential approaches. This gives space for flexibility, values you as a whole person and allows me to tailor therapy to your uniqueness. You already have the power. Therapy helps you use it.
Changes in life can be hard. You can learn how to handle the hard stuff.
The human experience involves change and is a constant for each of us throughout our lives. We all struggle with it at some point and to varying degrees. This is natural. It brings loss and uncertainty. Even if we choose it, change is unfamiliar and can create stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms, overwhelm and feeling stuck. And if you already struggle with anxiety, depression or have a history of trauma, life changes and transitions can be even more challenging.
So whether it's overwhelm, anxiety, stress, sadness or just feeling stuck, I have the tools that can help. We will figure this out together. You will get past survival mode, feel more in control and experience change and the world differently.
You don't have to have it all planned out - Let's just start.
Who I work with
Women + Men
Women in the middle season of life + beyond
Helping professionals (teachers, therapists, humanitarian aid workers, first responders)
Creatives + Entrepreneurs
Caregivers + Parents
Adults struggling with the aging process
Nature loving folks
Executives + Professionals
Life changes we may work on together
Personal changes
It is not unusual to go through big life changes, whether positive or negative, and wonder what happened to the old you. This includes grief or loss, coping with a new or changing role, working through substance use or abuse, what comes up for you as you embark on a new career or start your own business, or just finding yourself again.
Environmental changes
These changes involve the world around us and the power it holds in our lives. The heaviness and angst of changing climate, the natural environment, economic and political situations, conflict...and so on. We may feel the effects in our personal lives or in our professional roles. We may experience academic hurdles; cultural changes and relocation stress; collective trauma; and other external stresses beyond our control.
Developmental changes
Transitional issues happen at all ages and stages of life. Issues might be related to LGBT+ matters, such as coming out, starting a transition or finding ways to support loved ones. Transitional issues also include managing mid-life stressors and challenges due to aging.
Emotional changes
Some stressors cause emotional distress like: anxiety, depression, stress & burnout, low self-esteem and body image, and even trauma. Physical changes can also challenge your mental health. For example waiting a health diagnosis, coping with physical illness or chronic pain and reduced functioning, or even the normal aging process.
Relationship changes
Managing relationship challenges such as communication, problems with sexuality & intimacy, conflict, co-dependence, or infidelity. Coping with changes in relationships due to separation or divorce, blending families, adoption and changes with the different stages in parenting.
KARA PIERSON COUNSELLING & CONSULTING
182 Wellington Street, Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 1W3, Canada /905-809-8122 / karapiersoncounsellingca@gmail.com
Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO 006200)
