Holistic counselling therapy and healing .....

Therapy and energy based healing provide a gentle way to connect with all of who you are... mind, body, emotions and spirit. It allows you to let go of beliefs and feelings that no longer serve you while connecting with the joy and wisdom that live within you.

This form of therapy can be effective for individuals who are living with
loss and/or trauma. It is also helpful for individuals, couples or families
who want to feel better about themselves, to communicate & interact with
others in more positive ways. Dianne uses it extensively with families
in adoption who are experiencing difficulties with attachment. It is a
compassionate tool for providing attunement and connection with adopted
children.

To support individuals & families
Dianne offers....

A Light Through the Path

Life comes with twists and turns,
some that we embrace and some that
challenge us.

When the challenges are too much,
we can feel overwhelmed. That can
create unnecessary stress, tension &
even depression.

And if your life has trauma or loss
at its centre,
it may be hard to know who you are
or to live your life or create family
in ways that feel good for you.

And so you can feel alone or
that something is wrong with you.

Sometimes the ideas and ways
that you have of coping may
not be working as well as they used to.
On your own it can be hard to know
how to create the change and connections you need.

Therapy & energy based healing can also be
path through the grief
& gifts of adoption...

Being an adoptee, birth parent, adoptive parent
or adoptive family can create unique challenges.

Approaches to adoption have not always understood
and provided ways to deal with the unique issues &
challenges that adoption and adoption reunion may bring.

Learning who "I am" can be a challenge when one's genetic and
kinship history is in one family and one's development and life
is in another. Finding a whole and strong sense of one's self
requires patience, compassion, information and
approaches that are sometimes a bit different.

Loss is simply a different experience when it occurs for
an infant or involves giving up a a child and the experience and
cycle of grief can also be very different. It is important to know
how to honour and work with the experience and cycles that loss
and grief follow in adoption.

Attachment within adoptive families has its own set of joys
and challenges. Adoptive parents need different kinds of information,
skills and tools to reach out to a child with whom they are
not biologically connected and yet want to form
heart connections with.

It is important for adoptive families to have ways to
talk about their uniqueness and to explore how they
connect and bond with one another ... to have
support and tools to do that effectively.

Some of the problems in adoption exist in the
practices of secrecy not in you as a person or family.

It is important for adoptive families to have ways to
talk about their uniqueness and to explore how they
connect and bond with one another ... to have
support and tools to do that effectively.

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Confidential,
Fee for service ..... Sliding scale rates
By appointment

Muskoka 705 - 286 -4980

Toronto 416 - 487 -2404