Elder Abuse Counselling

Our sessions will act as a guide towards developing self-awareness and exploring how you are with yourself  and how you in relationship. As your companion, I’ll walk with you so that you can begin to rebuild your inner strength and resilience. This creates a foundation for healing emotional wounds, and a platform on which to understand what your next steps will be.

Based on approaches drawn from Emotion Focused Therapy and Focusing-Oriented Therapy in particular, I will facilitate your process of accessing and expressing your emotions that relate to the abuse you are experiencing. I will support you as you identify and process feelings of guilt, shame, anger or sadness associated with the abuse. Together we will explore the impact it has on your self-esteem. We will then begin to explore ways of rebuilding your self-worth and confidence in yourself personally and in relationship.

We will identify your recurring patterns of response, such as in times of stress or when certain people or events trigger unresolved conflicts. We will work on developing ways of advocating for yourself. Together, we’ll develop some steps for self-care, including rekindling old interests and/or social connections, developing new ones, and improving how you feel about yourself. Ultimately, this will lift the quality of your daily living on a personal and interpersonal level in social situations.