Counselling and Psychotherapy Services
Our Services
Anxiety Therapy
Our goal is to help identify and overcome the anxiety-causing fears and worries in your life as well as explain how anxiety functions. By dealing with the core causes of your worry and stress, you’ll be better able to deal with them.
As a result, you’ll learn how to engage with new perspectives and handle high-stress situations.
ADHD Therapy
There is currently no cure for ADHD, but many approaches are available, including the combination of medication with therapy, changes in the environment, and extra support at school or at home. It is understandable that parents are unsure of the best treatment for their ADHD child.
Each case is unique. Parents should watch their child’s behavior when a new medication is prescribed as they would for many other disorders. Medications may cause side effects such as headaches, stomachaches, tics or twitches, and difficulty sleeping. A few weeks may pass before the side effects disappear. Otherwise, they can be adjusted by your doctor.
Depth Therapy
Depth therapy can be helpful for people whose problems are buried deep in their past or in their subconscious minds. The purpose of depth therapy is to identify the root cause of a number of various problems, whether it is compulsions, problematic relationships, depression, or anxiety.
The counselling therapist generally does not focus on a single underlying issue since subconscious emotions can create many issues.
Dreamwork Therapy
In dreamwork, the images reach beyond our stuck issues. People’s posture, faces, and breath can clearly show changes when their usual energy is restricted or disrupted. It is often impossible to see this new energy in dreams. When a person lives physically from a dream image, the dream energy shows up.
Dreams are an integral part of the therapeutic and healing process at Gaia Counselling.
Emotional Focused Family Therapy
Family relationships that are hostile or noncompetitive, or issues that have not yet been resolved, may require your family to develop supportive behavior and communication skills.
Our team at Gaia Counselling is not only qualified on a technical level and has years of experience in psychotherapy, but we have also been trained in emotionally focused family therapy.
Focusing-Oriented Therapy
In dreamwork, the images reach beyond our stuck issues. People’s posture, faces, and breath can clearly show changes when their usual energy is restricted or disrupted. It is often impossible to see this new energy in dreams. When a person lives physically from a dream image, the dream energy shows up.
Dreams are an integral part of the therapeutic and healing process at Gaia Counselling.
Mood Disorders
Mood disorders are classified either by their depression or bipolar symptoms. There is a possibility that these conditions will require lifelong treatment. However, you can certainly make great progress by addressing it upfront and honestly.
If you’re depressed, have you wondered where you can get help?You can rely on us. We can help you heal. You’re on your way as soon as you understand this. Let’s make sure you don’t let a mood disorder hold you back any longer.
Psychedelic Integration
This treatment approach is for those who have undergone or are planning to undergo psychedelic journeying and are seeking a professional to help them integrate the insights that will or already have emerged.
The term psychedelics is generally referred to substances and brews such as LSD, psilocybin mushroom, DMT, ayahuasca, MDMA, and peyote. There is research on their ability to induce profound psychological healing and spiritual growth. However, it is important to connect with a counselling professional so that it can be integrated safely and successfully into one’s life. Integration refers to the understanding of one’s psychedelic experience, assisting with processing thoughts and feelings, merging it into day-to day life, and maintaining positive outcomes.
Shamanic Work
Trained by the Foundation for Shamanic Studies – “Dedicated to the preservation and teaching of the shamanic knowledge for the welfare of the planet and its inhabitants”.
Core Shamanism consists of the universal, near-universal, and common features of shamanism, together with journeys to other worlds, a distinguishing feature of shamanism. As originated, researched, and developed by Michael Harner, the principles of Core Shamanism are not bound to any specific cultural group or perspective. Through classic shamanic non-drug techniques as sonic driving, especially in the form of repetitive drumming, one can discover their own spiritual resources, strengthen the connection to their helping spirits and transform their lives.
“What’s really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover…we are not alone.” — Michael Harner
Trauma/PTSD Therapy
When you are struggling to process a traumatic event, or feel disabled by a difficult situation, our treatment can be very helpful, particularly if you begin the process early on. Living a more joyous life can be achieved by taking action.
Gaia Counselling is a PTSD and trauma therapy clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia. We understand that every person is unique with their own set of experiences. Our services are tailored to meet your needs. We will accompany you on your healing journey.
Individual Counselling Services
Provide a safe environment for individuals to create long lasting positive changes in their lives and provide them with support in their healing journey. Helping clients identifying individual strengths and come to understand that they have the power and control to create change. Deepen their understanding of themselves, heal injuries and overcome challenges.
“Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life” – Carl Rogers
Family Counselling Services
Provides a safe environment for families to understand own family dynamics to Improve communication between family members and to understand each other as well as to restore mental wellness. Helping parents and caregivers to increase their role in promoting the health and wellness of their loved ones.
“Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves” – Virginia Satir
Children/Youth Counselling Services
Provides a safe environment where children and youth can express themselves and work through their feelings and emotions. Helping children explore problems through play and artistic expression. Helping youth with the transition between the stages of adolescence. Supporting children and youth to cope with difficult situations and build confidence and resilience.
“There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all” – Erik Erickson
Holistic Counselling Services
Provides a safe environment for individuals (19+) that would like to align with one’s authentic self, re-connect with one’s intuitive voice and heal via different holistic approaches.
“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.” – Terence Mckennan