Clinical Counselling for Individuals

Solution-Focused, Evidence-Based

You don’t have to navigate life’s challenges alone. Therapy offers a safe, supportive space to heal, grow, and gain clarity.

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What is CLINICAL COUnSELLING?

Life can be beautiful and it can also be incredibly tough. It’s during those difficult times we might need support to help us through.

Individual counseling offers a safe, confidential space where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your challenges, and work towards meaningful, lasting change. This supportive, one-on-one process is collaborative, tailored to your specific needs, and focused on helping you improve your well-being and achieve your goals. Whether you’re facing personal struggles, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, or simply want to enhance your life, we’ll work together using a solution-focused, evidence-based approach. We’ll identify what’s working well in your life, uncover the patterns holding you back, and create a realistic plan to help you get ‘unstuck’ so you can move forward.

Solution-based approach

Moving Forward With Clarity and Purpose

A solution-focused approach highlights what’s working well in your life right now, while also helping to identify and resolve automatic unhelpful patterns that may be holding you back.

We’ll focus on your strengths, your wants and needs, and how to tap into them to better manage or overcome current challenges. We’ll create a plan that highlights realistic and achievable goals and solutions. This approach helps you feel empowered and confident knowing you are making meaningful progress, while keeping you motivated to continue the work.

Evidence-Based Methods

Therapy That’s Backed by Science and Rooted in Care

I use therapeutic techniques that are proven to work, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), mindfulness, and other practices.

These evidence-based approaches help you recover from trauma, manage stress, anxiety, and other mental/emotional health challenges in practical ways that bring about real change. With strong roots in research, you can trust that the tools I use are effective and tailored to your needs.

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what’s holding you back?

Discovering Limiting Patterns

A key part of our work together is uncovering any limiting patterns that may be holding you back from making the change you want for yourself. Sometimes, we develop certain habits, thoughts, beliefs, or responses over time that helped us at one point but that no longer serve us.

These patterns are automatic and often rooted in traumatic or difficult childhood experiences that continue to affect how we think and behave as adults today. By exploring the origins of these patterns, counselling can help you understand why they’ve developed and how they are preventing you from reaching your goals.

Once we identify these patterns, we’ll work to reframe or replace them with healthier coping strategies. This helps you to break free from the old automatic cycles, and create meaningful change that lasts.

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How & Why it works

A Therapy Experience That Feels Safe and Supportive

By combining solution-focused strategies, evidence-based methods, and a focus on uncovering and transforming limiting patterns, counseling helps you build lasting change. With a clearer understanding of yourself and the tools to move forward, you’ll gain the confidence and skills to create the life you want.

Start With a Conversation

I’ll listen to your concerns and help you clarify what you want to work on.

Set Goals Together

We’ll identify what you want to achieve and create a measurable plan that works for you.

Uncover Limiting Patterns

We’ll explore any underlying beliefs or behaviors that may be preventing you from making the change you seek.

Focus on Solutions

Using your strengths and new insights, we’ll create actionable steps to overcome obstacles and achieve your goals.

Track Your Progress

We’ll check in regularly to see how you’re doing and make adjustments as needed to keep you on track.

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benefits of counselling

how Counselling can help You Move Forward

  • Managing stress, anxiety, or depression: Learn coping strategies and gain confidence in your ability to manage difficult emotions.
  • Identifying and overcoming limiting beliefs: Uncover patterns that have been holding you back and replace them with empowering ways of thinking and behaving.
  • Building resilience: Discover how to bounce back from challenges.
  • Improving relationships: Enhance communication skills and better understand your needs and boundaries.
  • Setting and achieving goals: Clarify your values, set realistic goals, and take practical steps toward achieving them.
  • Boosting self-esteem: Focus on your strengths and build greater self-awareness to increase your sense of self-worth.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Clinical Counselling

Therapy is for anyone who wants support, clarity, or personal growth. If you’re feeling stuck, anxious, overwhelmed, depressed or uncertain about the next steps in life, therapy can help. It’s a misconception to think you need to be in crisis before seeking therapy.

That’s perfectly okay and normal. Many people feel that way at first. You don’t need to prepare anything or have the perfect words. I’ll guide the conversation gently, and together we’ll find a starting point that feels manageable. Sometimes, just showing up is the most important step.

My counselling style is warm, down-to-earth, and collaborative. I use evidence-based methods, but always with compassion and care. Together, we’ll find what works best for you and I’ll never push you to go deeper than you’re ready for.

It really depends on your goals and what you’re working through. Some people feel a shift after just a few sessions, while others choose to continue longer for deeper work. We’ll check in regularly and move at a pace that feels right for you.

Most people start with weekly or biweekly sessions, depending on what feels manageable and supportive. We’ll talk about what’s realistic for you, and adjust as needed over time. My goal is to create a rhythm that helps you make steady, meaningful progress.

Not at all. Therapy is for anyone who wants to better understand themselves, make positive changes, or feel more at ease in their life. You don’t need a big event or diagnosis to benefit from support. More often than not it’s about untangling the small, everyday struggles that quietly wear you down.

That’s more common than you think. Finding the right fit matters, and it’s okay to feel hesitant. My approach is gentle, collaborative, and focused on what actually works for you … not just a method or checklist. If you’re open to trying again, we’ll take it one step at a time, together.

Yes I do offer virtual counselling via phone or video conferencing when in person sessions are not an option due to reasons such as business travel or holiday, personal or family issues, or injury or illness.

“You don’t have to carry everything on your own. Therapy is a place where you can feel seen, heard, and supported—without judgment or pressure. Wherever you are in your journey, I’m here to walk alongside you.”

– Lyn Firth, MPCC, RQS

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Starting therapy can feel like a big step, but you don’t have to do it alone. Whether you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or simply looking for support, I’m here to help. My approach is gentle, collaborative, and tailored to you—there’s no pressure, just a safe space to explore, heal, and grow at your own pace.

If you’re ready to get started or just want to learn more, I invite you to reach out. Let’s connect and see how I can support you on your journey.

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