Clinical Counselling
Our experienced clinical counsellors can help you with issues related to mood, anxiety, sleep, relationships, and other areas.
Clinical Counselling In Metro Vancouver/Greater Vancouver & The Fraser Valley
Our team of clinical counsellors can meet with you at home, at one of our clinics, or remotely to assist you with issues relating to mood, anxiety, sleep, relationships, and various other concerns that require treatment.
Our Infinity Health Counsellors can help with:
Abandonment, agitation, aggression, anger management, anxiety, concurrent disorders, conflict resolution, depression, emotional health, grief and loss, life transitions, loneliness, marriage issues, men’s issues, mental health and addictions, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), parent coping skills, parent/child conflict, parenting skills, phobias, postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), self-harm, self-esteem, separation, sexuality, suicidal ideation/behaviour, supervised visitation services, trauma, workplace issues, and young adults.
What To Expect In Your Counselling Sessions
When you attend the first counselling session, the Infinity Health counselling team wants to promote feelings of care and safety. During the first session, we will discuss informed consent and identify your goals for counselling treatment. The process is client-directed, and the counsellor is the guide to assist with your counselling needs.
Confidentiality
The therapeutic relationship is confidential. Your counsellor will not share your identity and information with others to respect your personal experience and so that you feel safe and secure being open. The only exception is that counsellors have a legal requirement to disclose information if there is a risk of danger/harm to yourself, someone else, a vulnerable person, or a child. If there is any information regarding child abuse, this will need to be reported to the proper authorities. Counselling notes can also be subpoenaed to court.
Benefits and risks of counselling
There are many benefits to counselling, and each individual client determines their personal goals. Benefits may be an increased ability to live more effectively by improving your ability to cope with life pressures, family relationships & friendships.
You may also gain a better understanding of yourself, your goals, and your values that will assist you in your personal growth and career goals. Therapy can help a person gain a new understanding about themselves, their relationships, and how it is currently assisting or hindering them in achieving their goals. Counselling allows a person to learn new ways of coping and solving their own identified problems. Therapy can help a person develop new skills and to change behaviour patterns that aren’t working for them. Therapy can also contribute to improved ability to cope with stress and difficult situations and can increase understanding of self and others.
There are some risks to the therapeutic process. Counselling may involve the risk of remembering unpleasant events and may arouse strong emotions and feelings.
How Do We Help?
We will be listeners. We will reflect back to you some of your thoughts and definitely what we notice in how you express your emotions. Through this process, we hope that you make new meaning out of your current situation and begin to feel empowered to make the changes that seem right for you.
