Individual Counselling
Marie-Pier’s individual therapy sessions aim to personalized, and highly therapeutic experience of self-exploration grounded in attachment science. She listens to her clients beyond their narrative, capturing and holding space at their core. For Marie-Pier, healing begins with a genuine and authentic exchange of emotional safety, which requires pausing the power of the mind and sitting with the wisdom of the body.
Recognizing that the body holds deepest experiences, Marie-Pier guides her clients towards different parts of the self, leading them to explore past experiences and understand why these parts developed the fears they hold. Putting fears into context allow the roots of what influences current feelings and reactions to awarness.
Marie-Pier recognizes that every part of us matters and possesses its own wisdom. Encountering, appreciating, and welcoming the various parts of the self is a fundamental step that integrates a balanced and harmonious reflection of our core essence.
As an advanced trauma therapist, Marie-Pier uses her individual sessions to help release the weight of past experiences. She focuses on developmental trauma and emphasizes both somatic awareness and relational dynamics. Marie-Pier looks at early attachment experiences as roots that influence current physical, sexual, and emotional responses. Her sessions help alleviate symptoms such as flashbacks, hypervigilance, dissociation, and chronic pain to promote an overall sense of ease and resilience.
I work with individuals aged 18 and over.
Testimonials
With Marie-Piers guidance and care my partner and I have never been closer. Marie is sensitive, honest, and generous. She has a wide knowledge base, and practical experience to back it. I would absolutely suggest to others looking for a therapist to consider Authentic Counselling.
Marie has helped me learn about myself and grow in ways that I didn’t know was possible. We meet exclusively on zoom as I don’t live in the lower mainland, and somehow every session feels like we are in the same room. She creates a safe and supportive environment to dive deep into issues that can be extremely hard. Working with Marie has given me tools that I know I will use the rest of my life and I am very grateful for her!!
« a bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because the trust isn’t on the branch, it is on their wings »
Unknown
Don’t feel like you fit a particular label?
Here are some of the ways in which these challenges may be showing up
Emotional concerns
- Feeling bored or unsatisfied in your relationship
- Difficulty attuning to your authentic self
- Difficulty identifying and communicating your needs
- Difficulty expressing yourself
- Feeling used and/or under appreciated
- Feeling of judgement or criticism towards yourself
- Avoiding confrontation
- Rumination or obsessive thinking about future or past
- Feeling like you are never enough
- Feeling overly responsible
- Feeling resentful towards others
- Fear of being judged, rejected, or misunderstood
- Only seeing the negative in yourself/situation
- Feeling stuck
What to Expect
01 – FIRST STAGES
Through our first few sessions, I am taking the time to unpack my clients’ reality and motif of consultation gently. These first sessions are fundamental because therapeutic work can only happen if there is a sense of comfort and trust in the room. While learning about my clients, I assess the situation, the presence of emotional patterns, recurrent challenges and clients’ strengths. I call this first stage de-escalation as we are looking to frame and identify the negative cycle that keeps individuals and couples stuck. At the end of this stage, clients begin to recognize their cycle as the enemy of their situation – are capable to step out of the cycle as it happens – express hope – and show openness to their partner or other individuals in their life.
02 – MIDDLE STAGES
During the second stage, clients begin to feel the benefits of the therapy. Individuals and couples can now access and engage with their emotional experience. Emotions are no longer foreign or frightening. The focus on this stage is restructuring the bond within oneself or between the partners. Clients describe it as the opening phase through which their fears are no longer triggering. They can be responsive and emotionally engaged with one another in a more natural manner. An inner sense of peace and bonding events mark the transition toward the third stage.
03 – ENDING STAGES
With the need for closeness being restored, clients are consolidating their therapeutic gain. They enact new positions in their ways of living and engage in constructive cycles with others, including their partner. The end of the final stage is no better to describe by the ability to turn towards a significant other in time of need with ease and comfort. In addition, couples are offering mutual support to each other and shape new solutions to pragmatic issues.
If you align with any of the above, and ready to step in a journey to live fully and freely, schedule a phone consultation to get started.
