Our primary approach to counseling will be to help empower individuals by utilizing self-assessment/reflection while guiding individuals to identify and employ effective methods of problem solving within their lives. Fees will operate on a sliding scale

Individual counselling

• Help address individual crisis
• Brokering relationships within family/work environments
• Working with teens/parents to address parent-child conflict
• Addressing addictive behaviours through individual/group format

Life coaching

• Self esteem and personal development issues
• Support in pursuing ‘life long’ goals
• Developing a business plan for ‘small employers’ or entrepreneurs
• Utilizing support group format to promote networking and develop interpersonal skills

Counseling is a process that requires the individual to work with a therapist to resolve crisis or conflicts that may arise internally or externally with others, in the workplace or at home.

Our counseling approach incorporates physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the person. Therefore mental health issues and any related medication and their effects will be acknowledged and appropriate referrals will be made as needed. Also, your personal values and cultural uniqueness will be respected as a key part of the counseling process.

Our service will work with you to identify ways of resolving your internal or external conflict or crisis through empowerment. Empowerment means to enable someone to exercise his or her authority. Sage Counseling will support and guide you as you process the problem, set safe personal boundaries and utilize the skills of self-assessment/reflection to identify concrete goals.

You will be required to learn new skills and develop personal insight. You may need to complete homework assignments that help you overcome obstacles and resolve conflicts that stop you from achieving personal success and family and work place priorities. Clients will be encouraged to examine their value system and draw on their strengths, abilities and spiritual resources to achieve both short and long term goals.

There will be an initial intake assessment that helps to establish crisis issues and concrete problems. We live in fast-paced society where change is constant. Major moves, job relocation, financial crisis, emotional loss, peer pressure, family violence, the stress of balancing work and family and health issues or chemical dependency can all contribute to human brokenness. We’re all human and need support as we find solutions for meeting our full potential.