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	THERAPY “Ecotherapy is involved with healing the human-nature relationship. It is psychotherapy as if the whole planet mattered.”  Linda Buzzell
	Personal Counseling Compassionate client-centered counseling can help you … discover your life purpose and live in alignment with that purpose transform your despair about climate change and your grief about the loss of species into action release trauma from abuse, surgery, accidents, grief & loss, harassment build self-esteem and confidence solve problems and make decisions explore what harmony and balance means for your health become whole by finding the parts of you that are lost and restoring them to your life. My counseling work integrates four methods: Focusing oriented therapy, eco-therapy, shamanic counselling and transpersonal psychotherapy.
		Counseling fee - $60 per session Contact Irene Friesen for appointment.
	A FEW NOTES ON MY METHODS Ecotherapy is involved with healing the human / nature relationship and generally involves therapeutic activities in my gardens. Ecotherapy arose because therapists and psychologists were finding a dis-connect between human beings and nature and because clients were reporting that they were distressed by the environmental degradation and bothered by a sense of helplessness to deal with it.  The goal of ecotherapy is to help heal the split between humans and nature on a personal and collective level. Focusing Oriented Therapy in the treatment of Trauma Focusing (Gendlin, 1978) is a body-centered, client-centered approach to psychotherapy.  I am certified by The Focusing Institute  as a Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist.  I trained in classical Focusing methods with Deanne Andre and completed a two year program by Prairie Region Centre for Focusing and Post Traumatic Stress under the direction of Anne Poonwassie.  Shamanic Counseling Shamanic counselling uses innovations introduced by Michael Harner that set it apart from traditional shamanic practice. Rather than drumming to alter consciousness, you listen to drumming through headphones. My role is to coach you in the shamanic methods for entering altered consciousness. I have trained with four shamanic teachers:  Michael Harner, Sandra Harner, Alicia Gates & Sarangerel, "Shamanism is the earliest spiritual practice known to humankind, dating back tens of thousands of years. The fact that the practice has survived and thrived for thousands of years speaks to the potency of the work. A shaman is a man or woman who interacts directly with spirits to address the spiritual aspects of illness, perform soul retrievals, divine information, help the spirits of deceased people cross over, and perform a variety of ceremonies for the community. Shamans have taken on many roles in tribal communities; they have acted as healers, doctors, priests, psychotherapists, mystics, and storytellers. Shamans heal emotional and physical illness by working with the spiritual aspects of illness. Shamanism teaches us that everything that exists is alive and has a spirit, and that we are joined with the earth and all of life via our spiritual interconnectedness." Sandra Ingerman Transpersonal Psychotherapy combines insights from modern psychology with insights from the world's contemplative traditions, both East and West. uses imagery as the language of the soul and an essential tool for healing. works with transpersonal and spiritual dimensions of the Self, including self-development, peak experiences, mystical experiences and altered states of consciousness. promotes a healthier balance between male/female principles in our culture, viewing them not as opposites but as co-existent energy. Irene Friesen’s Credentials Educator B.Arts. (U.Manitoba)   B.Theology (CMBC)   Cert.Education (U.Manitoba) 30+ years experience as an educator in high schools and adult education Therapist Applied Counseling Certificate (U.Manitoba, Continuing Education) Focusing & Complex Trauma Certificate (Prairie Region Centre for Focusing) Focusing Oriented Therapist (The Focusing Institute) advanced training with Foundation for Shamanic Studies
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