Spirituality Therapists in Brockville, ON

I provide support to individuals hoping to improve their mental health, family conflicts and trauma responses. I am passionate about providing support to women navigating anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma, life transitions and faith/spirituality. ​I also bring valuable experience in working with grief and loss.

At Life + Hope Counselling, we offer a diverse range of treatment options for anxiety, depression, PTSD, Borderline Personality traits, grief, and relational challenges. If you are feeling burdened with stress, anxiety, or past trauma; if you are emotionally overwhelmed with sadness or loss; if you are suffering burnout or are challenged in a life transition; if you are wanting to move into healthier behaviour patterns and relationship dynamics, we would like to help you.

I am one of several skilled and compassionate therapists on the team at Life and Hope Counselling. We support individuals, couples, and families shift into healthier ways of being in the world and in their relationships. If you are feeling burdened with stress, anxiety, or past trauma; if you are emotionally overwhelmed, or are feeling challenged in a life transition and want to move into healthier behaviour patterns and relationship dynamics, I'm here to help.

I work with individuals and couples on a variety of issues related to mental health, addictions, sex addiction, marriage and couple conflict as well as trauma. I specialize in helping couples cultivate healthier relationships, as well as assisting individuals to overcome their addictive behaviour and mindset. My experience includes: in-patient and out-patient care in a treatment center setting, as well as agency and private practice work.

Life is nothing short of amazing. It's amazing how much we can go through and live to tell about it. It's amazing how fast kids grow up and time flies, how angry a co-worker can make you, how much compassion we can seem to have for others when we struggle to offer any to ourselves. It's amazing how much we put on our plates when all we need is to rest. It's amazing how much we can long for understanding and connection and how much opportunity can be missed right in front of our eyes. It's amazing how short life is. It's also amazing how much we can learn in the time we have, and how little steps can amount to such massive change.

My team and I at Courtney James Counselling and Psychotherapy are here to provide a safe and supportive space for you. We are honoured to meet you where you are, and move toward meeting your goals. We offer therapy services to children, teens, adults and couples. I also offer specialized support for caregivers and children/adolescents in the foster care and adoption community.

Sometimes people get stuck. Individuals and couples come to me for counselling to talk about a variety of problems - things like conflict in relationships, anxiety, depression, overwhelming stress, abuse, grief, vocational crisis, or anger. A counselling relationship helps people to move from understanding issues to co-creating solutions - solutions that shrink and manage problems. I use an integrative approach, drawing on different counselling methods depending on what works best for the client, including practices from cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, and solution-based therapy. I can help you to move through difficult times with courage, accountability, and positive resolve.

It's not just you, life HAS gotten harder in the last few years. If you've been powering through, staying strong and carrying on, but now you're barely getting by and you're tired of feeling like you're not really living your life, it might be time for outside support. The benefit of therapy is that it's a time where you get to focus on yourself, to look at your life, and to get an outside perspective on how it could be different. You don't have to just endure, with the right support, you can heal from the past, and move forward towards a better future.

Life has its challenges and reaching out for help can be intimidating. As a therapist I recognize the importance of creating a safe space through compassion, and of building a sound therapeutic connection in order for change to occur. That connection is built through meeting clients where they are at emotionally and motivationally, by remaining a neutral observer, and by allowing the client to set the pace for meeting identified goals. Having this safe place to gain insight and build on your coping skills can help you better manage mental health and to move beyond feeling stuck.

I can help when your mental and physical health are affecting your wellbeing. I will help young and mature adults navigate some of the most significant life challenges such as addiction, anxiety, chronic illness, depression, grief, loss, post-traumatic stress, racial trauma and other challenges associated with life, school, and the workplace that may affect your mental health.

I’m a registered Social Worker M.S.W., R.S.W. For over 20 years, I’ve been providing counselling to children, youth, adults and families of different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Working with these populations has shown me that when individuals feel safe, respected, heard and appreciated for who they are, they respond to life challenges with creativity and resilience. My practice is guided by these core values. I take great care to create an ambiance where a genuine human connection takes place.

Are you a helping professional on the verge of burnout? Is your ability to care or respond to others with compassion slowly disappearing? Are you feeling overwhelmed with stress or chronically exhausted? You may benefit from speaking to a professional who specializes in treating burnout, compassion fatigue & secondary traumatic stress disorder. I am committed to supporting helping professionals discover sustainable solutions to managing the stresses of providing care to others so that they can strive to be the awesome, compassionate helpers that they are meant to be.

Currently accepting new clients, and offering clinical supervision. As your counsellor, I will work with you to create and nourish a safe environment. A space where you can talk openly, free from judgement or pressure, and feel comfortable in your vulnerability. Vulnerability allows you the opportunity to progress towards an authentic life while expressing and processing your emotions. I will support you in identifying your needs, and strengths. and work towards your desired lifestyle.

As a registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist and Clinical Director, I strive to deliver compassionate and empathetic support in working with the client in finding their inner strength and abilities and expanding on those for success. I believe every individual is capable to succeed and breakthrough their past current and future challenges/struggles, whatever they might be. With the focus of the client as the expert and the clinician as supportive expert, you will have the opportunity to be guided through your own strengths and abilities in moving forward and finding happiness/success through the life course.

Are you neurodivergent, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, or a trauma survivor looking for a therapist with shared lived experience? Are you looking for support on your healing journey with trauma, abuse, chronic stress, or mental illness? Have those around you struggled to empathize or understand, often leading to feelings of self-doubt and invalidation? Are you ready for the next stage of healing? I'd like to be part of your journey.

Accepting some new clients! You are in the right spot if you are feeling stressed out, anxious, and overwhelmed in general or by life transitions. It is also the right spot for you (individually or as a couple) if you’re feeling lost in navigating your relationships; if you feel as though your needs aren’t being met; if you’re having difficulties engaging with sex and intimacy; or if you don’t know how to get “unstuck” from unhelpful patterns. Moving through life and relationships are basic parts of the human experience and yet, they can feel SO hard. Know that this is natural and it is where our work begins.

I am accepting new clients from all walks of life. I bring a collaborative, nonjudgmental, client centered approach. While I use a variety of approaches, I have additional experience using CBT. I also have additional training in EFT for couples counselling. Much of my focus is on supporting the needs of individuals, couples, and first responders to help reach their desired goals. In my space you can expect to be met open discussion, comfort, understanding, and acceptance so that we may tread new and existing paths in the direction of self-awareness and growth.