Individual Counselling for Men and Women:
Anxiety, depression, emotional stress, fears, phobias, psychological trauma. Death in the family, grief, loss and mourning. Physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse. Family violence. Emotional wounds. Stuttering. Moderating over control. Transforming self-criticism into self-nurturing attitudes and behaviour. Confidence, self-worth and body self-image issues.
Relationship Counselling:
Making a marriage work. Rekindling passion, deepening and revitalizing long-standing partnerships. Communication blocks, emotional distance, power struggles, destructive conflict. Divorce, extramarital affairs, separation, reconciliation and relationships ending. Recovering and learning from past relationships. Developing trust and openness to closeness, intimacy and commitment.
Career Planning and Development, Job Stress:
Getting laid off or worrying about it. Fewer people doing the same amount of work. Uncertainty. Constant change. Demanding bosses. Job dissatisfaction. Burnout. Moderating over work. Defining work interests, passions and generic skills. Re-entering the work force. Reviewing mid-life career direction. Focusing lifework purpose and meaning.
Serious Illness: Mind-Body Psychological Health:
Preventing physical illnesses caused by stress. Recovering from life-threatening illness. Learning how to live with chronic disease. Psychological preparation and recovery from surgery and other kinds of treatments. Building psychological resiliency, hardiness and optimism. Mobilizing a person’s resources for health.
Parent-Child Coaching, Child and Adolescent Counselling:
Supporting parents, strengthening families. Parent-child/adolescent relationship issues. Stressful family life transitions and changes. Challenge of dual careers in balancing family life. Baby boomers caring for young children and aging parents. Fortifying one-parent families
Variety of Concerns Presented in Counselling:
People present a wide variety of issues, difficulties, questions, problems, and challenges during counselling:
Feelings of hopelessness, discouragement, depression, resignation, and futility;
Issues of self-worth, self-image, confidence, trust and faith, valuing-oneself;
Managing life transitions, crisis points along the life cycle, stages or changes in adult development;
Feeling overwhelmed; confusion, drifting, and aimlessness; searching for purpose, meaning and direction in living;
Relationship difficulties; clearing past history or unfinished emotional business interfering with present life functioning; communication blocks or conflicts; relationship beginnings; developing trust and opening to intimacy and commitment; relationships ending and separating; healing recovering and learning form past relationships; deepening, enriching, revitalizing ongoing partnerships; learning how to give and receive love;
Feeling stuck or blocked; an incompleteness, emptiness or blankness; conflicted, ambivalent and mixed feelings;
Unresolved anger and guilt; a wide variety of different kinds of fears; anxious, nervous and uneasy feelings;
Dealing with death; sadness and loss;
Stress management; skills for relaxation, grounding and centering; developing peace of mind, equanimity and contentment;
Transforming self-criticism and developing self-nurturing attitudes and behaviour;
Mobilizing a person's inner resources for health; interrelationship between emotional and mental state, with physical health and the healing process of the body;
Job dissatisfaction, burnout prevention, career redesign and redirection; lifework planning issues;
Rediscovering and awakening to one's inner feeling emotional world; making friends with and utilizing feelings creatively; recovering a sense of zest, vitality, joy and energy for more creative work and personal life;
Intensive life style consultation; promoting a sense of inner integration; balancing work and family life; discovering a sense of inner rhythm and harmony; clarifying values and priorities; developing new ways and patterns of living.
How Can You Tell If It’s Time to Ask for Help?
When it’s not getting any better.
When you feel like you can’t do it alone.
When you feel trapped, like there’s nowhere to turn.
When you worry all the time, and never seem to find the answers.
When the way you feel is affecting your sleep, your eating habits, your job, your relationship, your everyday life.
Dr. Jim Leonidas Ph.D., C. Psych.
Registered Psychologist Ontario 1976
Canadian Register Health Service Provider Psychology 3292
http://www.drjimpsychologist.com
(416) 484 9912
Skype: jimleonidas
10 MCNAIRN Avenue
Suite H1
Toronto Ontario
Canada M5M 2H5
