Begin your journey towards a healthier and happier you. Lauraine is a Registered Psychologist with over 10 years of experience providing mental health counselling to adults in need of support for attention concerns, trauma, posttraumatic stress dsorder (PTSD), anxiety, social anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, stress management, and work-life balance.

Lauraine has over 20 years of experience working with teenagers (aged 14-19 years) who need support in the educational environment, including academic programming, career exploration, test anxiety, peer conflict, bullying, depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues, self-harm and suicidal ideation.

Becoming a young adult is a time when people start reflecting on their mental health and explore ways to cope with and heal from anxiety, depression, trauma, and other mental health issues. Lauraine has over 20 years of experience helping young adults heal from mental health concerns and successfully transition into adulthood.

A healthy parent-child relationship is one that is founded on trust and respect, while nurturing the physical, emotional and social development of the child. Sometimes a parent child relationship can break down due major life changes leading to an estranged or broken relationship. Counselling can help rebuild that bond and develop a stronger foundation to more forward.

RCMP officers are often exposed to tragic and traumatic events such as being threatened, witnessing violent or dangerous situations, losing a partner, or witnessing a death. Lauraine has years of experience helping active duty RCMP officers and veterans cope and heal from the aftermath of experiencing a traumatic event. goes here

Being an athlete comes with a lot of pressure. Many athletes struggle with a deep fear of losing, performance anxiety, loss of motivation, and chronic stress which impacts their day to day lives. Lauraine uses various therapy approaches to help athletes increase focus, improve motivation, enhance performance, and increase confidence.

Lauraine treats generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and panic disorders by using an eclectic approach to help the individual gain a sense of presence and let go of the what ifs, worries and fears that accompany anxiety. By using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and solution focused therapy, counselling can reduce feelings of angst by interrupting the anxiety cycle.

Whether you are going through a difficult time or are experiencing long term chronic depression, counselling for depression can help you discover the underlying cause of your feelings while providing valuable strategies to challenge negative thoughts and overcome self-defeating beliefs. Lauraine uses CBT, mindfulness, solution focused therapy, and embodied cognition to promote your health and wellbeing while supporting you in being the best you can be as naturally as possible.

Being exposed to a traumatic event often leaves a deep mark resulting in flashbacks of the event, anxiety, feelings of helpless, and difficulty sleeping. Lauraine delivers a unique and effective treatment for trauma called Finding Joy - Trauma Treatment Technique or FJ-TTT. This treatment has been shown to resolve the residual feelings of trauma quickly and easily, while helping the individual gain a renewed sense of peace and calm.

Everyone experiences stress at one point in their lives, however, chronic stress can lead to serious mental and physical health issues, including anxiety, depression, diabetes, insomnia, headaches, and increased blood pressure. Therefore, it is very important to understand the underlying causes of your stress and learn to manage it before it leads to burn out. Lauraine uses breathwork, relaxation, mindfulness, and awareness techniques to help you reduce stress and manage incoming stressors.

With social media painting people’s lives as perfect, the movie industry showing only one body type, and the usually societal pressures that cause people to not feel good enough, self-esteem and confidence issues have become a serious problem that affects people of all ages. Lauraine uses genitive behavioural therapy (CBT), embodied psychology, and reality therapy to help individuals discover their self-worth, build up their confidence, and learn to love themselves.

Therapy can help you navigate and cope with difficult life transitions including separation, divorce, grief, loss, empty nesting, receiving a terminal or chronic illness, caring for both your parents and children, and retirement. Lauraine applies her personal experience combined with cognitive behavioural therapy to support you through a difficult time while also helping you gain an alternative perspective to manage your circumstances.