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Walking with you through life's challenges
Natalie is a caring and competent Individual and Couples Therapist in Uptown New Westminster. With over 17 years of counselling experience and a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology from UBC, Natalie is your best bet for effective change and relief. Natalie also provides supervision/consultation to other Counsellors.
Natalie knows how hard it can be to call a counsellor. Her clients feel safe and at ease as soon as they speak with her. Natalie welcomes individuals from all ages (17+), genders, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, and cultures. She is a mom to two school aged kids and knows the struggles that come with parenting and maintaining a romantic relationship.
Topics that Individuals find Natalie helpful with include:
- High Stress or Anxiety
- Trauma
- Confidence
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Depression
- Transition to Parenthood
- Providing Supervision to Counsellors
Call Natalie to feel heard and accepted and learn skills to apply right away.
Natalie offers in person, phone and virtual sessions. Her first appointment of the day is 8:45 and the last is 4:45. She offers a 6pm appointment once a week. She works Monday to Friday.
She believes we are all doing the best we can with what we were given, and that we all fall apart at times.
She uses exceptional listening and relationship building skills, along with the teaching of stress/trauma management and bodynamic skills, and current brain-psychological research. Natalie works from an attachment, systemic and trauma-oriented perspective.
With Natalie you can expect to gain skills and insight right away.
We'll look at your goals and set ones specific to you. Some of them might include, for example:
- Feeling calmer in daily life
- Less resentment towards people in your life
- Knowing what you want and learning to ask for it
- Setting boundaries
- Working on parts of us that get extreme, like perfectionism or caretaking others
- Creating satisfying relationships at home and work
- Sleeping better
- Lessening of rage, anxiety, panic
- Being more of the parent you want and hope to be
- Increased Self-acceptance
- Feeling less isolated
Email me using the email link above or book online. Let's make a plan together for you to start feeling relief.
I offer direct billing to most insurance companies. I accept clients who are funded by Crime Victim Assistance Program, Metis Counselling Connection and ICBC.
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Work is a place of resource for many people. It gives us a sense of purpose, much needed structure, brain stimulation, contact with others, and income for our needs and wants. Work can also be stressful. That's ok too. Our systems can handle temporary stress, whether it is meeting a deadline or giving a scary presentation. It’s like running a 10km race. We’ll be fine as long as we recover the next week. This kind of stress of challenge and then recovery is healthy. There are two situations where work stress can become unhealthy. (1) The first is when work is relentlessly under-staffed and over…