Hello, I am Maggie Haley, a registered clinical social worker and counselor in private practice based out of Nelson BC yet, serving individuals, families and groups in the Kootenay Boundary region. I have been a practicing social worker for over 35 years working with several community service organizations as well as the public health care sector.
Counselling is an important journey for those seeking to be understood and supported to ease the burden of personal suffering and to effect life change. I believe developing a trusting therapeutic relationship is the key in providing you with the safety and support you need to move in the direction best for you in your recovery and healing process.
Counselling is an important journey for those seeking to be understood and supported to ease the burden of personal suffering and to effect life change. I believe developing a trusting therapeutic relationship is the key in providing you with the safety and support you need to move in the direction best for you in your recovery and healing process.
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About Me
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In my thirty plus years as a social worker, I have provided counselling support and services to troubled youth, women and men with relationship challenges (including violence), women's employment programs, psychiatric and addiction programs, services for special populations (e.g. I am a registered Clinical Social Worker with the Canadian College of Social Workers (CCSW) and a member of the BC Association of Social Workers (BCASW).
Counselling Services
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My counselling approach is holistic, strengths based and practical to support you in actualizing your therapuetic goals. Creating a collaborative, safe and trusting therapeutic relationship where you feel accepted and heard is vital to our work together. You will be reassured that your experiences (thoughts, feeling, behaviors) are normal and develop as a response to cope as best you can at the time given your resources.
Working with Addiction
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Addiction is defined as any repeated behavior that satisfies a short-term craving and persists despite significant negative consequences. Addiction negatively impacts all aspects of our lives i.e. financial, work, relationship, health (physical, emotional, mental and spiritual), and our ability to function day to day.
Working with Couples
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Emotionally focused couples therapy (EFCT) originally developed in the 1980s by Sue Johnson and Leslie Greenberg is a short-term structured psychotherapy approach to working with couples that is firmly established in attachment theory.
In EFCT, the therapist helps the couples go to the underlying emotions that keep them stuck in rigid positions and negative interaction cycle; the EFCT therapist guides each partner to expressing emotions that pull for compassion and connection.The aim is to create a new relationship event to act as a kind of transformer and thereby change reactive emotion with positive emotions of attachment.
In EFCT, the therapist helps the couples go to the underlying emotions that keep them stuck in rigid positions and negative interaction cycle; the EFCT therapist guides each partner to expressing emotions that pull for compassion and connection.The aim is to create a new relationship event to act as a kind of transformer and thereby change reactive emotion with positive emotions of attachment.
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Ms. C. Campbell
Jan 23, 2024
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Thank you for contributing to the effort in addressing the systemic problem in BC government and the failures of College of Social Workers, Ombudsman, College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, Your tremendous effort to reveal unethical conduct and practice, bureaucratic victimization has not gone unnoticed and will contribute to human rights and public safety . It has spearheaded the Clinical Counselors who have requested improvement for forty years by requesting legislation i from the government in order for public protection. BC government must govern and bring order to counselling services. in this province as it is known that anyone can walk out of high school and call themselves a psychotherapist. There are no regulations one link to inform the public https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-therapy-counselling-regulation-1.5396268
