Madeleine Sullivan

About Madeleine

Website: www.sullivancounselling.com
I offer a warm, compassionate non-judgmental approach to counselling. I help to empower you to move forward with your life, and to create positive beliefs about yourself.

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology, and certification in EMDR 2.0. I will work with you to help find a way through the barriers that are keeping you stuck. I offer a safe, nurturing environment. for you to discover what is causing your pain, and distress, and room to grow and make changes for yourself.

If you are facing challenges in:
*tPTSD
*tComplex Trauma
*tAnxiety
* Emotional Eating
* Eating Issues
* Eating Disorders
* Weight Loss
*tDepression
*tLow Self-Esteem
*tAnger Management
*tToxic Shame
*tWounded Emotional Boundaries
* Childhood Sexual Abuse
* Dissociation
*tLife Transitions
*tRelationships
Madeleine welcomes the opportunity to work with you, to bring about the change you want to see in your life.

I specialize in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), to help you move past trauma and pain. I work with CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) to help you discover your internalized negative beliefs and habits, and help you create more adaptive positive beliefs. I help you resolve any issues you may be facing, and I make sure you get the coping tools you need to move forward with your life.

I work with a variety of other techniques and modalities, and customize my approach to your needs. I use practical tools that are emailed to you after our session for your reference that provide you with the ability to review and practice new skills and ways of thinking. I have trained with the best of the industry leaders in my field because I believe it is my job to provide you with the most up to date, effective techniques available, so you get the help and results you deserve.

I believe we work as team to enable you to get the help, healing, growth and change you want to see for yourself. Take a look at my website and message me for a free consultation.

Specialities include:
Surviving to Thriving through PTSD: addressing re-experiencing; recognizing and understanding avoidance and numbing maladaptive coping behaviours; how to calm hyper-arousal; how to shift negative cognitions and mood; how to gain emotion regulation; and how to create positive core belief systems.

Understanding Anxiety: how to calm the alarm; how anxiety manifests itself in the body; the anxiety loop; root causes of anxiety; and tools for how to relax during anxiety.

Creating Healthy Self-Esteem involves: how to build, strengthen, and maintain self-esteem; how to have unconditional self-esteem; understanding ways we give power away; how to communicate feelings, needs and opinions; how to understand emotions; and how to enable ourselves to pursue dreams and goals.

Understanding and working with emotional eating habits and issues. There are also different reasons for why we carry excess weight, and it is helpful to understand these, such as:
*tDefence Issues
*tControl Issues
*tNursing old hurts
*tOver Nurturing
*tSelf-indulgence

Working Through Anger: how to recognize thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and behaviours associated with anger; what are areas of hidden anger; how to communicate through anger; and how to recognize triggers when our emotional boundaries are violated.

Overcoming Toxic Shame: understanding shame; how to build shame resilience; how to recognize shame triggers; what are unwanted identities; and what do shame screens look like?

Wounded Emotional Boundaries: understanding what emotional boundaries are; what are the differences between unclear, unhealthy, rigid, damaged and no boundaries; how do we learn boundaries; what are the consequences of damaged boundaries; what are the guidelines for setting boundaries; how to develop healthy boundaries; how to maintain boundaries; how to communicate boundaries; and what do healthy boundaries look like?

I have the following qualifications:
*tMaster’s of Counselling Psychology, University of Victoria
*tBachelor of Social Work, University of Victoria
*tRelationship Issues and Couples Counselling, Citizens Counselling Centre

Contact Madeleine Sullivan: 778-584-3955 or through the email form on this page, or visit her website at: www.sullivancounselling.com for a free consultation.