Practice Areas

Counselling & Hypnotherapy for Effective Change

Are you experiencing negative patterns or habits that leave you feeling unimportant, unsuccessful or unhappy? As both a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a Certified Hypnotherapist, Jill can help you identify the root cause of your uncomfortable feelings, and give you the tools and techniques to live a purposeful and more balanced life in friendships, relationships, fitness, health, self-esteem and reaching personal performance goals.

Counselling and Hypnotherapy Focus Areas:

Jill specializes in working with clients experiencing the following issues:

Anxiety (including stress, fears, phobias and post-traumatic stress)
Sports Counselling/Athletic Performance
Relationship and Family Issues
Anger Management
Health and Wellness

A Multi-Disciplined Approach to Counselling and Therapy

Because every client and situation is unique, Jill draws on a number of counselling and therapy techniques to best meet individual needs and resolve issues as quickly as possible. These therapies include:

Hypnotherapy
You may be most familiar with hypnosis and hypnotherapy from television or magic shows. While much fun has been made of hypnotherapy, in reality it’s a clinically recognized psychological therapy recognized by counselling and psychological associations. Clinically, hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis therapeutically to resolve ineffective patterns, habits or negative emotions. Hypnosis is a naturally occurring state that all human beings move in and out of all of the time. It is like a daydream and during that daydream state your subconscious mind is receptive and open for positive changes.

In Hypnosis you will never say or do anything that you don’t want to (forget the images you say on TV). You can get up and move around, you can pop yourself out of it at any time and you will remember everything. You are completely in control, yet in a state where positive changes happen quickly. Your mind is a powerful tool and through this effective therapy, Jill can help you use it to your advantage.

As both a Certified Hypnotherapist and Registered Clinical Counsellor, Jill is uniquely able to integrate hypnotherapy and other important therapies to help you achieve effective change.

Family Systems Theory
Family Systems counselling recognizes that couples, families and their individual members function as an entwined emotional group that influence and are influenced by each another’s behaviours and choices. Looking at how the emotional system works in the family that shaped you, Jill will help you recognize the ingrained techniques you automatically used to deal with stress, and then reveal effective options for solving problems that have the best long-term outcome for you, your partner and your family.

Adlerian Psychology
Adlerian psychology promotes equality, balance in life, the thought that every individual is creative, unique, and more than the sum of their parts. Adlerians view the individual as a whole in context with their environment, family, friendships and intimate relationships. This practice helps individuals, children, parents, and couples achieve more harmonious relationships by examining behaviours, discovering positive aspects of each other, and harnessing the power in knowing we can make positive choices and changes in relationships if we so desire.

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