Angie Kingma (Mindfulness for Health)

Most of us at some point in our life realize that our old coping strategies just aren't working as well as they used to. We're very familiar with our habitual, autopilot way of living but we're just not sure how to get out of our ruts and obtain different results. Psychotherapy will provide you with the ability to 'wake up' from your usual 'automatic pilot' ways of living. In a supportive therapeutic relationship, you'll be guided through the process of reflecting on how your past experiences have shaped your belief systems and how your past conditioning might be inadvertently be keeping you stuck. When we can learn how to step out of 'auto pilot' we gain more choice, more freedom and often a huge sense of relief/calm. Essentially, it enables us to make more informed decisions about our lives rather than reacting to old familiar, knee-jerk (often unhelpful) reactions. Taking a trauma-informed and attachment-based lens, I individualize all treatment plans to target the mechanisms that are keeping you stuck in suffering and unhelpful habits. I use an eclectic blend of approaches depending on your personality, temperament, past experiences and current challenges. We can start by exploring your past or your present situation as eventually, through the talk therapy process, we will pinpoint the maladaptive patterns and come to understand them from a much more compassionate stance. When we can bring the light of awareness and compassion to our wounds from the past, healing can happen in the present moment! Everything we cover will support your ability to build insight, clarity and self-awareness so that you can feel a state of empowerment to cope in more effective ways.