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How can Counselling & Psychotherapy help you?

Counseling and psychotherapy can help you resolve life issues and create strategies and supports for positive change. Through a therapeutic process that promotes self-awareness, healing, integration and personal growth, you will develop a greater capacity for full and healthy living.

Individual Counselling & Psychotherapy Is Helpful If You:

are coping with stress, pain, illness, addiction and/or trauma

are struggling with feelings such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, grief or anger

have a particular life issue to resolve, or transition or choice to make

want to create healthier patterns of coping or relating to others

want support on your path of personal and spiritual growth

Couples Counselling & Psychotherapy Is Helpful If You and Your Partner Want To:

create healthier patterns of relating

heal from a relationship crisis

develop greater fulfillment in your relationship

have support in making relationship decisions and transitions

My Approach

My approach to counselling and psychotherapy is client-centred and supportive. Through a focus on a client’s awareness and experience of self in the “here and now”, past issues and future concerns are addressed within the therapeutic relationship as they are experienced in the present.

About Sandra Miller

Master of Social Work 1985-1987, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

Post Graduate Gestalt Training 1993-1996, Gestalt Institute of the National Capital, Ottawa

Member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) www.ocswssw.org

Clinical and Faculty member of the Gestalt Institute of the National Capital www.gestaltottawa.ca

I am a counselling psychotherapist and registered social worker with a private practice in Toronto. I work with individuals and couples on issues related to anxiety, depression, anger, stress, grief, loss, career, relationships, trauma, addictions and life transitions. I offer both brief and longer term psychotherapy.

I also have over 15 years experience as a group educator and facilitator. I have developed and provided worksite stress management courses, co-led men’s anger management and belief/behaviour change groups, created and facilitated ongoing women’s support groups, and developed and led a number of workshops related to personal growth and life transitions.

Prior to entering private practice, I worked as a consultant in the mental health, addictions and community health sector. My expertise includes organizational development and training, strategic and service planning and needs assessment.

My counselling, educational and consulting services are provided with compassion as well as competence. Client confidentiality is assured in a safe environment. My relationship with clients is based on my genuine caring and respect for them and my belief in their capacity for healing and growth. I subscribe to the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.

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