Location
Offers online therapy
I have extensive experience with online, video and phone sessions. EMDR is offered online as well. The office has strict hygiene in place.
About
I have been in private counselling practice for 15 years, and in wellness, personal development and the media for 25 years. My practice draws self-referring, high-functioning adults/couples with addiction, phobia, anxiety, depression and attachment disorders affecting their lives beyond their historical, current or perceived ability of self-control. In couples, I usually begin individually to create safety and self-awareness, then back together towards clear self-advocacy, expression and to build trustful communication. EMDR in the couple context can clear a lot of old trauma and wounded pattern-associations that mire us in destructive relational dynamics.
EMDR relieves a great deal of the 'therapy' pressure/stigma for the client, allowing complex trauma to shift rapidly and experientially. It is client-empowering, helping them 'let go' of that which was 'hidden' from their conscious awareness. I facilitate the means by which they can redefine their meaning structure in their world (transpersonal).
As a 6th Dan in Aikido, I bring experience from a defensive art that develops calmness and ready presence, overriding the 'limbic' fight/flight reactivity of our subconscious patterns to daily stress. There is substantial overlap between the process of EMDR therapy in reprocessing old traumas, and this powerful mind/body practice.
Dr. Michael A. Gordon
“I take a psychobiologicial approach through EMDR: a 'state based' trauma therapy which relieves us of 'unfinished business' from the past.”
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Finances
- Session Fee: $185 per session
- Couples Session Fee: $225 per session
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Please check with me regarding your insurer as coverage applies on a case-by-case basis.
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Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 24 Years
- Certificate: LJMU/Msc.
- School: Simon Fraser University
- Year Graduated: 2019
MSc. Psychology; PhD; EMDR Certificate, 6th Dan in Aikido
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: British Columbia School Of Professional Psychology
- Certificate Date: 2008
- Certificate: Canadian Humanistic & Transpersonal Association / 14050MG
- Certificate Date: 2019
Location
Offers online therapy
Specialties
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Relationship Issues
Issues
- ADHD
- Addiction
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Management
- Behavioural Issues
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Internet Addiction
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Oppositional Defiance (ODD)
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Racial Identity
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Addiction
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Sports Performance
- Stress
- Substance Use
- Teen Violence
- Transgender
- Trauma and PTSD
- Video Game Addiction
- Weight Loss
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Thinking Disorders
Sexuality
- Bisexual
- LGBTQ+
- Lesbian
Client Focus
Ethnicity:
Indigenous Peoples and Other Racial or Ethnic Background
Age
- Adults
- Teen
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- EMDR
- Eclectic
- Existential
- Humanistic
- Imago
- Integrative
- Interpersonal
- Jungian
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Psychoanalytic
- Psychodynamic
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family
Last Modified: 8 Mar 2023
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