`Who are you and where is the person I fell in love with?'

Recognise this? Colette specialises in couples therapy - she works with compassion, insight and humour that clearly demonstrate her love and commitment to relationships. She draws on over 20 years of psychotherapy training and practice, managing change in groups and organizations, and studying and leading Shamanic teachings and ceremonies.
Initial sessions focus on creating trust and safety in for clients to be heard and understood. Each session includes practical models and `take home' techniques that enable powerful shifts in understanding and behavior. As the work progresses, Colette guides, supports and challenges using a range of approaches which promote self- awareness and self -acceptance in order to heal the past, overcome blocks and achieve potential.

What we see as a problem can be a profound gift from Life. Each time we encounter our pain, our depression, our anxiety or a reoccurring argument with a partner, we are asked to grow, dig deeper, learn new truths or skills, or new ways of perceiving our lives, ourselves, and our loved ones. When we take the time to answer the call that life has given us, we can greatly enrich, deepen, and even heal our lives and ourselves. I believe in providing a safe and sacred space where clients can begin to open to a new experience of themselves using compassion as our guide, our mentor, and our lens. As we open to our experience, the good with the bad, we find that we are more resilient that we thought; we find renewed hope or a deeper sense of meaning as we discover new strengths, insights, or gifts about ourselves and our lives.

1 in 5 moms will experience some form of a perinatal mood disorder within the first year of becoming a mom. I hear from moms that they "just don't feel like themselves anymore." We tell ourselves it will get better soon, or that this must be normal. There is shame we feel thinking that we caused this or that we can do enough yoga or running to will ourselves into a better headspace, only to find we cannot. We feel trapped under the weight of expectations--both our own and those of the world around us.

I am passionate about helping you to create space to process the changes that are happening all around you as a parent. I have worked with moms long enough to know that there is no one right way to be a mom. You get to decide what this journey looks like for you, and I can help you in finding that and feeling your center of gravity again.

I offer: 1) general psychotherapy & 2) counseling with those with physical illnesses: 1) I use cognitive-behavioral therapy, DBT, Gestalt, & others means to help people with challenges, from crises with relationships to stress to questions about what to do next in life. 2) I counsel people with physical illness, disability, and pain. This evolved out of my own disability experience after an accident in 1984. It was a journey that led me to internal and external resources that I could not have imagined. Since then, I have trained and worked with people with many ailments, from fibromyalgia to cancer, chronic fatigue to M.S., & pain syndromes to head injuries. Please call for a free consultation. "Not just another 'shrink.' I have not met a more wholehearted counselor in 40 years." Stephen Levine, author of "Unattended Sorrow"