There is no grief like the grief that  does not speak . - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


My Approach to counselling 

I practice Counselling Psychology with a mix of Family Systems, Experiential Counselling, Person Centered therapy, CBT and IFS.

By looking at the history in your family, the stories, the losses and the gifts, we can explore how some of it may have had an impact on your life, what unresolved family struggles may have landed on your shoulders, and how may we shift those.

Many times I have heard why go back to the past? I want to deal with what's in front of me right now, the truth is your past has impact on you in the here and now, if we don't go to the source of the pain we cannot shift it's impact on the present. 

I also hold an experiential component, I will ask you to step into your feelings which may bring some discomfort there is growth in being able to allow yourself to go into the feelings, allowing them to be, without having an idea of them being right or wrong simply with them being an expression of who you are and what you are moving through.

As humans our ability to do great harm and great love, are simply divided by experience and choice, I believe in the person in front of me as being a person full of choices, and decisions each one to frame their life and the journey it takes.

MAJA FUTRELL-FRÜHLING, BCST,Msc,RTC

Maja Is a registered Therapeutic Counselor (RTC #2311) with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada (ACCT), and a member of The Association of Counselling Therapists of Alberta (ACTA) #1835.  Specializing in bereavement, traumatic loss, and suicide awareness/support.

Her training includes Restorative Retelling: Providing Support After a Sudden, Traumatic Death. (ASIST) Applied Suicide Intervention Skills training with the Vancouver Crisis Center and Traumatic loss facilitator training with the BC Bereavement helpline. She has co- facilitated traumatic loss bereavement groups with BCBH and the Crisis Center.Has been a livingworks SafeTalk and SuicideTalk workshop facilitator for the Vancouver crisis center presenting talks on Suicide awareness and prevention both for students and professionals . 

Holding a diploma in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and one in Transpersonal Therapeutic counselling. She taught Therapeutic counselling for two consecutive years with Clearmind International Institute, and has a Masters in Psychology from the University of Essex.

Growing up in Vancouver with 5 siblings in an atmosphere where creativity and self expression were highly valued. She has a background in Theater, film, Art and worked for many years in hospitality.


ACCT – Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada
 

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