Areas of practice
- Abuse - Emotional, Physical, Sexual
- Anxiety and/or Panic
- Chronic Pain
- Critical Incidents and Acute Stress
- Death and Dying
- Depression
- Grief and Loss - General
- Personal Growth
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Sexual Assault
- Spirituality
- Trauma Counselling
Approaches used
- Body Centred Psychotherapy
- Body Centred Therapy
- Bodynamic Analysis
- Developmental
- Integrative Psychotherapy
- Meditation
- Mindfulness approaches
- Somatic Experiencing
- Spiritual Counselling
- Visualization
Counselling practice website:
http://darlenecripps.wordpress.comPractice information:
Darlene Cripps MA CCC is a clinical counsellor who provides counselling to teens and adult individuals at her Vancouver office.
WHAT I OFFER:
I work with topics including emotional regulation (including anxiety, depression, and anger), grief and loss, and recovering from difficult and traumatic events whether current or in the past. I offer a free 30-minute consultation to explore working together. Please phone or email to learn how you can benefit. Please click below on Read more about Darlene Cripps to learn more about anxiety and trauma counselling and grief and loss support.
HOW I WORK:
You are unique and we work with your goals and explore practical ways to integrate sustainable change in the right-sized steps for you. A body/mind approach can enhance the effectiveness of traditional talk therapy. There is usually a great deal of inner distress remaining after challenging events. Words like 'anxiety' or 'depressed' are labels for inner experiences. We use the word ‘feeling’ to describe emotion (sadness, anger, depression, anxiety). We also use the word ‘feeling’ to describe sensation (tightness, pressure, heat, trembling.) Sensation and emotion are each experienced inside the body. People often try to ignore their inner distress because it is uncomfortable. However, with that strategy, what is ignored persists.
My role is to provide coaching and support you to learn how to develop your natural capacity to notice your inner experience, the bothersome sensations and emotions, in a safe-enough way to be able to release them at the pace that is right for you without becoming overwhelmed. We bring it forward on purpose, in a skilled and controlled manner, in order to release it and let it go. This is the key. Becoming overwhelmed is not restorative. In this paced and specific way, the troubling material is released, healing occurs, and problems subside.
Previous clients tell me that the process changes life for the better. Clients share that they can use these skills and tools in everyday life so the changes they make through counselling with me are sustainable in daily life.
Please visit my website to learn more about Beyond Talk Therapy – A Body/Mind Approach to Counselling
Trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions.
~ Peter Levine, Founder of Somatic Experiencing
ABOUT ME:
I am a Certified Member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and an authorized service provider for the BC Crime Victims Assistance Program. I hold an MA in Counselling Psychology and studied Bodynamics, a body/mind approach to human development, counselling, and trauma recovery, with Dr. Ian Macnaughton. I pursue continuing education and skills development especially in the areas of trauma recovery and body/mind approaches including mindfulness.
Anxiety and Trauma Counselling – People who have experienced difficulties often try not to think about what happened, yet it still affects them. People confide they feel out of control emotionally perhaps flooding with emotion or numb. They may feel guilt or perhaps ‘damaged.’ Sometimes recurring thoughts and images or physical pain bother people. Anxiety and trauma can be debilitating and affect all areas of life.
Please visit my website to learn more about Anxiety and Trauma Counselling
Grief Counselling – Receive compassionate support to journey through the pain of loss and the process of mourning. Though natural, the process of mourning can be challenging, lonely, and painful. Grief counselling helps the sharp pain of loss to soften; the intense pangs of grief become less frequent. Renew your self-identity, if yours has been shaken. Explore and search for meaning. The person who died will never be forgotten, your heart will heal, and your life can and will continue on as you re-adjust to life after loss.
Please visit my website to learn Three Things to Do During Bereavement.
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