Lindsay Bhuller
Areas of practice
- Anxiety and/or Panic
- Cross Cultural Issues
- Depression
- Family Conflict
- Life Balance
- Life Transitions
- Personal Growth
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Racial Identity
- Self-Esteem Issues
- Trauma Counselling
- Women's Issues
Approaches used
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Cross Cultural Therapy
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Emotion Focused Therapy
- Feminist Psychotherapy
- Focusing
- Humanistic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
- Somatic Approaches
Counselling practice website:
https://aftersuncounselling.ca/Practice information:
Do you find yourself getting triggered for reasons you can't explain? Are you having trouble turning your brain off from racing thoughts? Maybe you are overwhelmed by emotion, or the opposite- not sure what you feel at all. The human experience is a roller coaster, and it can be hard to navigate alone.
We all know the classic image of therapy: sitting in a dimly lit room, across from a stranger with a notepad, telling them your secrets. It can feel scary! But so can feeling lost and out of control of your life. Sometimes, for reasons we know and for reasons we don’t, our emotions run the show. As society becomes more comfortable with conversations around mental health, it can be hard to know where to start with your own. From my own experiences as a client in therapy, I am familiar with the awkwardness of sitting down with a stranger in such an intimate setting. My goal is to relieve this by facilitating a space of safety, warmth, humour, and compassion, to help you explore all parts of yourself.
Areas I am familiar working in include:
- Emotional Well-being:
- Stress and triggers
- Overwhelming emotions (e.g., anxiety, depression, guilt, fear)
- Disconnect between logic and emotions
- Relationships:
- Ongoing patterns in friendships/romantic relationships
- People pleasing vs boundaries
- Attachment wounds
- Personal Growth:
- Life transitions
- Identity
- Self-esteem
- Self-compassion (e.g., inner child work)
- Childhood Trauma:
- Shame
- Hypervigilence
- Dissociation
While there is a more thorough list of therapeutic approaches that I use on the left, I commonly pull from Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to help you gain better control over your thoughts and emotions, Internal Family Systems to explore different facets of your identity, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to foster positive change. My aim is to help you connect the dots as to where certain thoughts and behaviors come from. Alongside this deeper understanding, I offer tools, exercises, and reframes for you to use outside of the therapy room to enact sustainable change. I work with all ages, and most commonly young adults. As a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC, my services are covered by most insurance companies.
Prior to becoming a clinical counsellor, I spent years on beautiful Vancouver Island, gaining experience in a variety of support roles. Some of these include being a Community Support Worker in group homes for folks with developmental disabilities, an Emergency Support Worker in women’s shelters, and a volunteer at a province wide crisis line. Not only did these roles require intensive training that informs my work today, but they offered me profound insight and connection to people from all walks of life. Despite the diversity in these experiences I always came back to one truth: that the desire to be seen and loved is all any of us really want.
For therapy to be effective, it has to reflect your unique life experience. I don't believe that there is any one type of therapy that perfectly fits any one person, or any one concern. Using an anti-oppressive lens, I consider how all of your social identities have shaped you. I am trained in various therapeutic styles and mix them together to create a blend that is fitting for each individual. This is collaborative process where I invite you, the client, to offer feedback as to how each approach sits with you.
This blend includes the use of top-down and bottom-up methods. This means that we consider how thoughts influence emotions, as well as how emotions influence thoughts. We have all had experiences where we rack our brains trying to figure out why we feel a certain way about something. When we can't put a finger on it, we might feel confused, lost, and disconnected from ourselves. Somatic approaches allow us to tune into our emotions through a different pathway. By getting out of our heads and sensing into our bodies, we come across information that we may not have otherwise reached. Together we can explore how this all ties together.
I offer sessions in-person, as well as virtually throughout BC. If you have any questions, please reach out to set up a free 15 minute phone consultation. I look forward to connecting with you!
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