Services

Fran works with men and women of all ages and has helped children, teens, adults and seniors  find practical solutions for personal problems, relationship challenges, and work issues. Counselling can be a liberating and healing experience providing objectivity, insight, and a point of reference as you move toward finding solutions that work for you. Here are a few of the most common areas that can be improved with the help of counselling.

Couple Counselling: 

Create the Relationship You've Dreamed About!

• Preparing for marriage -- things to talk about before you live together or get married
• Communicating openly and honestly
• Moving from resentment and anger into compassion and love
• Learning how to express differences in a positive way
• Dealing with differences, whether they be in decision-making, parenting styles, personality, or sexuality
• Leaning how to honor each other's dreams -- and then go about fulfiling them
• Getting out of power struggles, negotiating and talking more easily even about tough topics
• Coping with infidelity
• Learning how to strengthen connection, and keep it strong over time
• Learning how to clean up the 'dust bunnies' in the relationship before they turn into 'big hairy monsters'
• Deciding whether to stay together, or consider separation or divorce
• Caring for aging parents

Individual Counselling:

• Overcoming depression
• Building self esteem
• Transforming anxiety and worry
• Managing troubling emotions such as anger, jealousy, or guilt
• Honoring grief and loss
• Healing old wounds and relationships
• Setting healthier boundaries
• Finding balance between work, family and leisure time
• Life stages and transitions
• Gaining or re-gaining a sense of inner direction and purpose
• Maximizing health and recovery from illness
• Banishing lethargy and fatigue and finding vitality and energy
• Life review, meaning, and sense of purpose

Stress & Wellness Consulting

Do you ever feel like you’re running on empty, and yet life’s demands continue to bombard you?  Do you ever feel out of control of your world, as though you live in a pinball machine constantly reacting with no choice other than to let life’s demands determine what happens? 

It would feel SO MUCH BETTER to look forward to your interactions with your spouse and kids, to feel enthusiastic about going to work, and to have energy left over at the end of the day!

As an alternative to more in-depth counseling, Fran offers stress and wellness consulting and coaching and is certified by the Canadian Institute of Stress as a Stress and Wellness Consultant.  Fran offers a systematic, step-by-step stress management program that is highly individualized and personal. The program was developed over 25 years and is based on scientific research with thousands of people across North America. 

There is a saying that if we can change the way we see things, we can change the world.  As a stress and wellness consultant, Fran works with people to discover a new vision of themselves, showing them how to visualize themselves at a higher level of health and vitality – whatever that means to them personally.  Together you will identify goals, examine obstacles and ways to remove those obstacles, and then chart a path that will help you to achieve your goals. 

The process of stress and wellness consulting is highly motivating, and fun.  Make a few small changes, live in sync with your values, -- and quickly receive benefits in health, satisfaction, energy and productivity.   Stress is really just energy – when we use it skillfully to create something very satisfying, it’s tremendously powerful. 

Turn stress into a positive and productive part of your life.