Clinical Supervision
Clinical Supervision
Clinical supervision is a crucial component of psychotherapy practice that involves a supervisory relationship between a more experienced therapist and a less experienced therapist or trainee. The goal of clinical supervision is to provide guidance and support to the supervisee, enhance their clinical skills and competence, and ensure that they are providing effective and ethical treatment to their clients.
Clinical supervision typically involves regular meetings between the supervisor and supervisee to discuss cases, review clinical techniques, and explore any challenges or ethical dilemmas that may arise in the course of treatment. The supervisor may also provide feedback on the supervisee’s performance and offer suggestions for improvement.
Clinical supervision is essential for maintaining professional standards and ensuring that clients receive the highest quality of care. It helps therapists develop their clinical skills, gain insight into their own biases and limitations, and stay up-to-date on the latest research and best practices in the field. By receiving feedback and guidance from a more experienced therapist, supervisees can improve their ability to help their clients and enhance their overall effectiveness as therapists.
Chelsey Yaremchuk Master Level Training Associate
Tara Stube. Master Level Training Associate
Yoga Psychology
Why Yoga?
Yoga is a mind-body practice, originating in India, to relieve suffering and disease. It includes movement (asana), meditation (dhyana), and breathing (pranayama). Yoga is often used to build self awareness and improve the connection one has with their mind and body.
Yoga can be effective in reducing muscle tension, stress-related symptoms, anxiety, depression, and trauma. It’s a widely held belief that trauma is held in the body and that we carry stressful experiences within our nervous system. Yoga can be used to regulate the nervous system and bring people back into their window of tolerance.
Yoga psychology is simply combining the practice of yoga with psychological knowledge. The approach can be prescriptive in that certain postures and breath techniques can be used to address specific mental health concerns.
I might implement the use yoga if I notice a client is feeling overwhelmed and their nervous system appears to be flooded. This could be done by asking my client to pause their narrative and engage in some light chair yoga or breath work. Doing this interrupts the body’s pattern of nervous system activation and establishes a new habit that the body will remember.
Yoga Psychology Approach
I am a a certified yoga instructor with the ability to incorporate the practice of yoga into my work as a psychotherapist, for those of my clients who are interested in this approach.
As a psychotherapist, I often incorporate yoga into my treatments. This helps bring my clients physical and emotional relief from their challenges. During the sessions, we discuss various techniques to help them manage their mental health problems.
Through this dialogue, we identify specific poses that are most helpful for each individual in managing their symptoms. I then break down these poses and explain how they work with our brains on a neurological level to help regulate emotions like stress and anger by activating key areas of the brain responsible for self-regulation.
By walking through each pose step-by-step, clients learn how to safely practice it while also connecting more deeply with themselves emotionally as they move through the practice. Ultimately, incorporating yoga into psychotherapy allows clients to actively participate in healing themselves from within .
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Chelsey Yaremchuk Master Level Training Associate
Tara Stube. Master Level Training Associate
Trauma Therapy
Somatic Experiencing
The Somatic Experience approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD, and wounds of emotional trauma.
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing (SE) was created by Peter Levine as a body-oriented approach designed to heal the effects of unresolved trauma and other stress/mood disorders. When trauma or other high-stress situations take place in life, the nervous system becomes overwhelmed and often gets stuck in a ‘fight, flight, freeze, or fawn’ mode.
When these overwhelming life experiences are held in the body, they ultimately end up impacting various areas of our lives through physiological and psychological symptoms of stress. Our nervous system then needs to be reset by establishing a natural rhythm between mind and body. SE targets emotional wounds related to early developmental attachment trauma and aims to let go of traumatic shock by guiding the client to become aware of and speak to the physiological sensations present in their body, while building a tolerance to physical and psychological distress.
This ultimately increases one’s capacity to handle stressful stimuli and resolves the fixated states within their nervous system.
How does Somatic Experiencing work?
SE activates the nervous system by guiding the client to focus on the physiological sensations present for them during a stressful or traumatic response. As stated above, the body often gets ‘stuck’ in a threat response state. The goal is to slowly and carefully activate the nervous system enough that it is able to restore itself back to a rest state, and complete the self-protective response that was intended during the initial traumatic or stressful encounter. This gradually brings the nervous system back to its normal cycle and allows the mind and body to function well.
I am currently a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner In Training enrolled in the final stage of Advanced level training.
Couples Therapy
Couples Counselling
Rebuild an intimate emotional and physical connection. Improve communication and establish a more resilient alliance and trusting relationship.
Friction in a relationship is not uncommon.
Most couples experience challenges over the course of their relationship. Our personal histories, relational experiences, and past hurts often contribute to some of the tough dynamics we fall into with our partners. Everyday stress can also influence our reactions and impact the sense of connection, intimacy, love, and trust we have as a couple. It can be difficult to maintain our own individual identity while also joining with one another. We often get stuck in our own needs not being met, making it hard to tune into our partner’s experience and leaving us feeling misunderstood or unheard.
Emotionally focused.
We often send signals to our partners to assess the security of the bond we share. We need to know if our partners are there for us, that we can count on them, and that they need and/or us as much as we need/desire them. When this is unclear, partners often respond with mixed signals, including shutting down (emotionally or physically), complaining, or criticizing. When we feel secure and safe in our relationship, we are more likely to feel confident in ourselves and have more independence as an individual. We are also more likely to work together to over come the inevitable bumps in the road that life throws at us.
Our aim:
It can be easy to get caught in a circular pattern, leading partners to feel distant, disconnected, and hopeless. My aim is to help couples step back and see the vicious cycle they get trapped in that leaves them feeling stuck and to help them find ways to break out of this dynamic. I help couples rebuild an intimate emotional and physical connection, improve communication, and establish a more resilient alliance and trusting relationship.
When working with couples, I use an approach called Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), which is based on attachment theory. This approach emphasizes emotional connection as a basic human need.
Chelsey Yaremchuk Master Level Training Associate
Tara Stube. Master Level Training Associate
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy
Working primarily with adolescent and adult individuals (16+), my goal is to make therapy a collaborative and safe experience.
I am here for you.
I place value on my clients’ input as part of the healing process, as I truly believe we know what is best for ourselves but can lose sight of this when we become disconnected from our own needs, desires, or perspectives during times of stress in our lives.
What to expect from counselling?
I’ve been told that I create a space where my clients can feel most like themselves. Therapy takes place in an environment that is free of judgement; where your mind can be at ease, and is a place where you can just be… feeling truly accepted, present, and at peace with yourself. My hope is to help clients find a space within themselves where they can show up as they are, not only during therapy but in everyday life and within their relationships. To just exist as we are is one of the most transformative healing processes we can achieve.
My counselling focus.
My work specializes in presenting concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship issues; though other themes I come across in client work include self-esteem issues, shame, feeling unsettled/not good enough, intolerance of uncertainty, and difficulties defining personal space and boundaries.
Connecting with you.
Many individuals’ areas of concern are interconnected; often overlapping, which can lead to symptoms that feel all bound up together and become difficult to navigate through or feel really overwhelming. I’ve experienced my own painful emotional and mental health obstacles, which I feel help to guide my work and sometimes provide a unique understanding into my clients’ experience, while still honoring each clients’ individualistic experience, needs and process. I connect deeply with my clients through these experiences of humanity and growth, all while empowering you to feel into their vulnerability and to identify a more integrated sense of being.
